Editing on Wikania

New to Wikania? Don't know how to edit a mediawiki? Well you've come to right place! Editing on a mediawiki is fairly simple, especially ours. Throughout this article we shall give you a basic guide for editing on Wikania wiki.

How to start editing
For the registered and anonymous users editing, the first simple step to editing the encyclopedia would be to see if you can edit it. Now in the picture to the right, you can see we have highlighted the edit button. This button is open to users who may edit? But what if the button says view source? If the button says view source, the page is either protected by an administrator or your user or IP is blocked by an administrator or Wikia staff.

Basics
Now that you've clicked the edit button, it is time to show you the basic interface for editing. In the picture to the right you can see the highlighted areas. Let us first start off with the red highlighted area. This red area highlighted is the modes you can edit it in. Visual editor is the easiest editor on the encyclopedia while source mode is for those familiar to the classical editing space on encyclopedias powered by mediawiki. Wikipedian users or users from other encyclopedias are familiar with this if they are older users on the wikis.

The blue area is your basic editing buttons which range from the bold button, italics, linking, button list, number list, indent, heading preface, page alignment and redo and undo. Now if you press the more button you will get extra buttons such as the underline, scratch out, and your signature. On source mode you will not see these buttons because they will be different and there is no indent or page alignment mode, etc.

Next you have the green area which is where you can click the buttons in add features and media to put in galleries, slideshows, sliders, videos, tables, and photos. It is way easier to change the pixel size within source yet mainly more visual with the visual editor mode. Then below that is your categories where you can add several categories as well as remove several categories.

Then you have your basic templates under the template tab. Those will be often edited in source mode as they are fairly easy within that mode. Now when you want to preview the article before you publish it, you press the preview button and that button will give you the look of your future edit as if it was published. Ready to publish yet? Well go ahead but there must always be a description of the summary for your edit and it must be specific.