Help:Tutorial

Welcome to Bioniclepedia! If you're confused on what to do, read this tutorial and find out! If making an article about a major character, first look at the Manual of Style and format it off the model article.

What is this place?
This is the Wikia wiki about Bionicle: all the characters, places, things, all kinds of stuff. What's a wiki, you ask?

A Wiki is a free encyclopedia, that is, an encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Look at the top of this page and you'll see a little tab that says "edit this page". When you see that, that means that the page you are on is editable. Not all pages are editable, however.

Some pages on the Wiki are protected. This means that that page cannot be edited by a Normal Level User (see Bioniclepedia:Ranks for more info). This means that too many people have tried to vandalize it, and an administrator protected it.

Links
Getting around a wiki is made possible by links. Links are often blue text that you click on and they take you to another page on the wiki.

To make a link,type this: link name here However,you may want to call a link something it's title isn't.(ex:you want the Main Page to be called Bioniclepedia Main page)

All you do is:

what you want it called

If you are going to make a link to a certain section on another article, type: link name

Text
Text? Of course you know to type on your keyboard to make words.

Italics
Italic text can be made by typing your text here

Bold
Bold text can be made by typing your text here

Both
You can also make text bold and italics.To make it,type your text here

Colors
Change the color like this:  and when you want the color back to  normal,type 

Size
Change    the   text    size by     typing pts>

An easier way...
Don't want to do that? Need small text fast? Just type and the text will be small!. Type to bring it back to normal!

Underlining
To Underline text type text here and to end it type.

Striking
To strike text type text here and to end it type

Pictures
Most articles are better with pictures. To make one, type: Pic name.gif This will give you a picture.

To control the size of the picture,type #px

To put the picture on the left or right side of the screen,type this: left or right

And,finally,to give the picture a border and put some text in it,type: thumb|what you want in the border

Titles
Titles separate a page into sections. To make one,type: ==title name==

Colons
Colons
 * can
 * change
 * the
 * margin
 * of
 * text.
 * Users often use these when replying to talk pages.
 * They can go pretty far.

Categories
Categories are what puts articles into the right group. To know all the categories available, click here To put a category on an article type:

Asterisks
To make a list or jot notes you need the asterisks in front of them. Type * to make a jot:
 * See?
 * It's easy!
 * You can also make mini jots by typing two asterisks!
 * And then get back to your normal list

Numbers
Like jots, numbers can come in handy when making a numbered lists. To make one, type #
 * 1) Num 1
 * 2) Num 2
 * 3) Num 3
 * 4) You can also make mini numbers by typing two!
 * 5) And then get back to your normal list.

Other minor stuff
You can do other things on a wiki too to make the article look better. For example, if you want a blank title, you can just type This will give you a line (don't use too often!):

Also,if you are getting frustrated because you hit ENTER and the pic is still appearing beside the text, you can type  and this will automacticly break the line you are working on.

Signature
To type your signature and date, you type four tildes: ~. To only put your signature, use three tildes, and use five for just the date.