Help:Editing and creating pages

Editing and creating pages is easy. You might want to have the sandbox open while you read this, so you can practise your editing without messing anything up.

To begin editing a page, just click the bold edit this page link at the top of the page. Doing so will bring up a textbox; make your changes and click the "Save page" button (which is rate below the textbox). Your edits will be visible on the page immediantly! Just wait, though &mdash; editing isn't just for the fun of editing a page, The Pokémon Encyclopedia is an encyclopedia, which means that we're a database of knowledge &mdash; so, if you see something you can add to a page, or anyway you can improve it, do so.

There is also a "Show preview" button. Pushing this will show you a preview of your changes before you actually save it, to make sure everything looks right. It is preferred that you preview your edits before you save, because this way you won't clog up the history of the page with lots of your revisions (feel free to edit a page several times in a row if you find something else to add, though!), although this isn't policy, so if you really hate the "Show preview" button you don't have to use it.

To create a page, type the name of the to-be-created page in the searchbox to the left entitled "Wikicities" (not the Google box). If they page doesn't already exist, it will say so and give you a link to create it &mdash; type your content into the textbox and click Save page, just like before. Now that page exists! Just remember to not create pointless or spammy pages.

Theres a bit more to it, though &mdash; MediaWiki, the software this site runs on, uses a special syntax to link pages together and format the page. For example, if you wanted to create a section header, you would type:

This would produce a header called "Name of the header". The header was created by surrounding it with two equal signs on each side. Here is some other formatting tricks:

Header name


Header name


Header name


Header name
 Page you want to link to

 Face of link

 Pages

 External link name

 (upload at Special:Upload, must be registered)

 Text you don't want ==Formatted==