Character Page Tutorial
From Masq
So you want to make your own character page, and you want to use the same nifty layout you've seen on most of the other pages, eh? Well, luckily, it's not that difficult.
- First, open the template page.
- Next, create your own page by searching for your name in the search box to the left, then clicking on 'create this page'.
- Start your new page with this: [[Category:PC]]
- Now, click the 'edit' tab on the template page. Copy all the text from the box, and paste it into the new page you created.
- Notice there are a lot of places it says "Name". Replace all of those with your character's name. For example, if you're Bob, {{:Name/Infobox}} would become {{:Bob/Infobox}}.
- Click the 'save page' button at the bottom of your page. NEVER save the template page.
Okay! You've completed step one. You'll probably notice that instead of the nifty array of information, though, your page has a lot of links to things like Bob/Infobox. That's what we'll do in step two.
- Click the edit tab on your own page. Scroll down, and you'll see a list, "Templates used on this page", and below it each of your sections, with its own (edit) link behind it.
- Scroll down in the template page, and you'll see the same link.
- For each of the items, click (edit) on each page, and copy the text from the template page into your own. In other words, click edit on Bob/Infobox and also on Name/Infobox, then copy the contents of Name/Infobox into Bob/Infobox.
- Change any instances of 'Name' to your own name, and then save your page (i.e., Bob/Infobox).
Click the back button on your browser until you have the edit tabs both of your own main page and of the main template open again, and repeat the above for each of the sections, except for 'Template:Rplogs'. Just leave that one alone.
If all's gone well, you've created your page! Now get to editing in the proper information!