User blog:NeonSpotlight/NeonSpotlight's Compendium of Editorial Knowledge

This is a work in progress and may take quite a while to finish, I will try and update whenever I can/am willing to. I will take suggestions on what to add to the blog in the comment section. Other moderator+ editors can add to this if they wish but in the end it will be up to my judgement as to whether or not their contributions are appropriate for this page or if they need to be edited to be brought up to a higher standard of quality.

Subheadings
Subheadings are used to help separate sections of a page, as can be seen in this blog, by allowing you to basically tell what the following lines are about. When using a subheading your text size is increased and given a horizontal rule underneath to further separate sections of your text. To insert a sub-heading on a page just type. Subheadings will be numbered numerically in a page's table of contents.

Additional subheadings
When you wish to put a subheading within a subheading you just surround your subheading text with another pair of equal signs like:. Additional subheadings will be numbered numerically in a page's table of contents indented underneath the original subheading as a decimal of the original subheading. Additional subheadings (3 or more pairs of equal signs around the text) do not include a horizontal rule.

Additional subheadings within an additional subheading
As with the above all you have to do is add another pair of equal signs around your subheading text to create a subheading of the above subheading:

Links
Links are clickable text which allows you to navigate around the internet with a press of your mouse, they are commonly used on the wiki to help navigate through pages easily.

Linking within the wiki
If you are linking to a page that is within the leagueoflegends.wikia.com site then all you need to do is take the text after the /wiki/ in the url of the page you are trying to link to and put it between two brackets. If we wanted to link to LeBlanc's page, for example, we would type  to get LeBlanc. We can modify the text of the link by adding a | and the alternative text right before the first closing bracket, for example we can make a link to LeBlanc's page that says Leader of the Black Rose by typing  to get Leader of the Black Rose. Links to pages that do not exist will show up in red instead of the usual blue like this.

Linking outside the wiki
Not all of the time you will need to just link to pages within the wiki, in these cases only use one set of brackets and use the full url of the page you are linking to. Let's say I wanted to link to the League of Legends main site, I would simply type  to get, if you do not add alternative text the link will show up as a number. Changing the link text is a little different when using this method of linking than when just linking to a page inside the wiki, in order to change the link's text you have to add a space after the url instead of adding a | and from there just type the alternative text as above. If I wanted a link to the LoL main site with a link that said Best Online Game I would simply type  to get Best Online Game. All links linking to pages outside of the wiki will be marked by a small double-sided arrow image.

Templates
www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template "Templates are standard wiki pages whose content is designed to be transcluded (embedded) inside other pages. Templates follow a convention that the name is prefixed with "Template:", assigning it to that namespace; besides this, you can create them like any other wiki page."

Templates can be found all over our wiki, from item and ability icons to champion squares and even the free champion rotation, these are all examples of templates at work. "The simplest use of templates is as follows. If you create a page called "Template:Welcome" with contents: Hello! Welcome to the wiki. you'll have created your first template! If you then insert the code: in any other page, when that page is viewed the text "Hello! Welcome to the wiki." will appear instead of . The template content is "transcluded" into the other page, i.e. it is integrated in the page. You can then insert   at any point of any page where you wish to welcome someone."

If you edit the template the change will occur on every page that the template is placed allowing for quick and easy mass editing. To get into more details about templates please visit the link that I presented at the top of this section.

Item icon
When you wish to include an item's icon and a link to its page in addition to the name of the item all you have to do is type, you can customize the link to the page's text by adding a | and then adding the modified link text to the template like. Using this we can change Rylai's Crystal Scepter into   or.