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Rewen's Guide to Pretty Articles

Dictionary Definition

Begin most articles with a dictionary definition. Bold the article's title like so:

Mage

Mage is one of the four base classes in Shadowbane.

Magic Words

Put these in an article's code to produce the listed effect. Visit the Media Wiki magic words page to learn more.

Switch	Description
__TOC__	Places the page's TOC at the word's position.
__FORCETOC__	Forces the TOC to appear in its default position. Can be used anywhere on a page.
__NOTOC__	Suppresses the appearance of the page's TOC. Can be used anywhere on a page.
__NOEDITSECTION__	Hides the "edit" links normally beside all headings on the page. To hide the edit link beside a particular heading, specify the heading using e.g. an HTML tag rather than with the usual wiki equals-signs syntax.
__NEWSECTIONLINK__	On non-talk pages, adds a "new section" link as a means to add a new section to the page.
__NONEWSECTIONLINK__	Removes the "new section" link (the add-new-section link) on talk pages.
__NOGALLERY__	Replaces thumbnails on a category page with normal links.
__HIDDENCAT__	Makes a category hidden when included on that category's page.
__INDEX__	Instructs search engines to index the page.
__NOINDEX__	Instructs search engines not to index the page.
__NOTITLE__	Removes an article's main title header.

Change how Titles Look

Replace the carat (^) with the actual title in the article.

Title	Magic variable	Changed title
Lorem ipsum dolor	{{DISPLAYTITLE:Lorem ''ipsum'' dolor }}	Lorem ipsum dolor
Book:Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet	{{DISPLAYTITLE:BooK:Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet}}	BooK:Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
Portal:Lorem ipsum dolor sit	{{DISPLAYTITLE:: _ Portal _ _ _ : _ _ _ Lorem ipsum_dolor sit}}	: _ Portal _ _ _ : _ _ _ Lorem ipsum_dolor sit
Kalai's 3^d conjecture	{{DISPLAYTITLE:Kalai's 3<span style="position:absolute; top: -9999px">^</span ><sup>''d''</sup> conjecture}}	Kalai's 3^d conjecture
E sub 0	{{DISPLAYTITLE:E<span style="position:absolute; top: -9999px"> sub </span ><sub>0</sub> }}	E sub 0
Lorem ipsum dolor sit	{{DISPLAYTITLE:Lorem ''ipsum'' doTemplate:Hlor sit}}	Lorem ipsum dolor sit ← (invalid change, as capital "L" does not match original)

SPAN and DIV Styles

CSS tags can be used in this wiki. SPAN is an inline element, and DIV is a block element, but both of them share formatting tags.

Separate the tags below with semicolon within the quotes: <span style="[tags here]">[formatted text]</span>

List of span/div elements.

• Text Color

color:blue

• BG Color

background-color:black

• Background Image

background-image: url(images/bg1.jpg)

• Padding

padding:20px

• Font

font-family:sans-serif

• Weight

font-weight:900

• Size

font-size:100%

• Shadow

text-shadow: 0 0 10px red

produces a glow effect

• Tool tip

title="This adds a tool tip to some words"