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 ======== Editing the Wiki ======== ======== Editing the Wiki ========
  
-Anyone can read this wiki. Editing needs the **editor** role in the [[https://discord.gg/zMeu4H9aA|Elementia Discord]].+Anyone can read this wiki. Editing needs the **editor** role in the [[https://discord.gg/zMeu4H9aA|Elementia Discord]]. Ask for it there. 
 ===== Getting an account ===== ===== Getting an account =====
  
-To create your account:+You do not make one. Logging in makes it for you.
  
   - Click **Login** at the top right.   - Click **Login** at the top right.
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   - Approve the access request. It reads your username and which of our roles you hold. Nothing else.   - Approve the access request. It reads your username and which of our roles you hold. Nothing else.
  
-Your account name is your Discord username.+You are back on the wiki, logged in. Your account name is your Discord username.
  
 +If you see "Not a member of the correct server", join the Discord first. If you log in and every page still says you cannot edit, you do not have the editor role yet. Roles are read at login, so once someone grants it, log out and back in.
  
 ===== Editing a page ===== ===== Editing a page =====
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 Two things worth knowing: Two things worth knowing:
  
-  * **Preview** shows how it will look without saving.+  * **Preview** shows how it will look without saving. 
   * Every version is kept. **Old revisions** at the top of any page shows what changed, who changed it, and lets you put back an older version. Nothing you do here can be permanently broken.   * Every version is kept. **Old revisions** at the top of any page shows what changed, who changed it, and lets you put back an older version. Nothing you do here can be permanently broken.
  
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 | Horizontal line | ''%%----%%'' | | Horizontal line | ''%%----%%'' |
  
 +Fewer equals signs means a smaller heading, which is backwards from what most people expect. Page titles use six, sections use five.
  
 Lists are indented by **two spaces**, and another two spaces for each level under that: Lists are indented by **two spaces**, and another two spaces for each level under that:
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   * Keep it short. It is a menu, not a table of contents. If a section needs more than about six entries, make a page that lists them and link that.   * Keep it short. It is a menu, not a table of contents. If a section needs more than about six entries, make a page that lists them and link that.
   * Always write the label after the ''|''. Without one the menu shows the raw page id.   * Always write the label after the ''|''. Without one the menu shows the raw page id.
 +  * Menu links are read from the top of the wiki, not from the page you happen to be on, so write the full name: ''%%[[info|Info]]%%'' and ''%%[[guide:fishing|Fishing]]%%''. This is the one place that works differently from the rest of the wiki, where a name with no colon in it means a page next to the one you are editing.
   * Nothing else on that page is used. No headings, no paragraphs.   * Nothing else on that page is used. No headings, no paragraphs.
  
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   * ''info'' is for the things that are true about the server rather than the game.   * ''info'' is for the things that are true about the server rather than the game.
  
 +If you are not sure a page belongs, write it anyway and ask in Discord. A page in the wrong place is easy to move. A page nobody wrote is not.