User:Caku/Caku's guide to good wiki markup

This guide applies to 80% of you niggers who think your page layout is good. It's not. You fucking suck at image placement and should become an hero because of it. But don't worry, I'll make an Editor out of you. This is not a guide on how to write a page but a set of guidelines on how to not look like a massive retards in front of this site's rising tidal wave of faggots.

Section one: Headers

A header is a template or stylized text at the top of the page. In your case, it's most likely {{stub}} or {{Why is There an Article}} This at most should be 1 to 2 before starting the first paragraph. Anything more is overdoing it, and you will be shot for insubordination if you break this rule. Other and more acceptable headers are quotes.

Acceptable header templates

They can be found here: Category:Notice Templates

If you want to make one use, {{天}} or you will be shot for insubordination.

Section two:The Lead

The lead is the first few paragraphs of your page and is supposed to lead the reader into reading the rest of your crappy page. Leads can include a Powerword and some other shit you want to come across to the reader before he gets into the rest of the page. If you wish to place an image on the lead or an infobox or maybe even an infobox with a picture in it, consider the following:

• Is the image too big?
• Is the info box stretching into the next five sections and breaking up the side of the page?
• Is the image/infobox showing below the lead?
• Why the fuck would you ever think that floating an image to the left is a good idea? It's fucking not.

The right way

An image/infobox should be placed above the lead in the markup language and resized so it does not extend beyond the lead text and significantly not beyond the table of contents. In the rare case when the infobox fucking has to extend past the lead and the table of contents, you must put in these magic words after your lead.

__TOC__
{{clear}}

This makes sure your image/infobox does not extend past the lead section and pretty much dunks on 99% of all pages on this site.

The wrong way

• R. Kelly

Section three:Sections

What are sections? You might ask. A section is usually what follows a lead on a media wiki page. They are there to give your page some structure. A section is declared by typing in ==<Section name here>==. Every section is listed in the table of contents.

General rules apply to sections:

• Don't name a section with an entire paragraph.
• Don't place images on the bottom of a section.
• Don't place so many images on a single section, so it extends past it.
• Don't place an image before a centered object without putting a {{clear}}.
• Don't float an image to the left..... ever.

Section three: one???

This is a subsection, and you can also make subsubsection or even subsubsubsections. This is done by adding one more equals sign ===Niggers===. An exception can be made to the general overextension of images regarding subsections. People can keep track of all their images if they have scattered over multiple subsections due to them being usually 1-2 paragraphs. Subsections are perfect. If you want to include lists within your page, you might see such implications in the subsection above this one. Subsections are also useful to put videos in with the <youtube></youtube> tag just make sure you center it with <center></center>.

Section four: Videos

There are two ways to implement videos: the standard video in the center with bold text and video frames.

Standalone video

<center><youtube>Kppx4bzfAaE</youtube><br>'''Jesus christ is my nigga'''</center>

Results

Jesus christ is my nigga

Video Frame

<center> {{videoframe|Title|background-color: #FFFFFF;|font-weight: bold; |<youtube>Kppx4bzfAaE</youtube><br>'''Jesus christ is my nigga 1''' |<youtube>Kppx4bzfAaE</youtube><br>'''Jesus christ is my nigga 2''' |<youtube>Kppx4bzfAaE</youtube><br>'''Jesus christ is my nigga 3''' }} </center>

Results

Jesus christ is my nigga 1

Jesus christ is my nigga 2

Jesus christ is my nigga 3

Previous Video | Next Video

Section five: Gallery

Galleries can be fixed or collapsible. If you wish to add more images than 10, I advise you to make the gallery collapsible, or you will be shot for insubordination.

Section six: Ending a page

Usually, at the end of something like a news article or a book report, people like to sum things up with a conclusion of some sort. If you want to edit on this website, throw that thinking out the window. The correct way to end a page on encyclopedia dramatica is to throw in a

==See also==

With a list like:

• kittens
• you
• niggers

This lets the brain dead user base of this website know its time to click something else to read.

Section seven: Footer

Here you would put in some footer templates, they include:

• Series templates
• Portals
• Categories

These are mainly hare is someone's brain cell kicked in and needed something else to click.

Section eight: MediaWiki tricks

Clear

Clear is my personal most used template. It pushes the next section down until it passes all the objects in the current section. {{clear}}

TOC and NOTOC

__TOC__ manually places the table of contents. You could even float it to the right like a retard.

__NOTOC__ Removes the table of contents from the page. This is good for gallery pages or short pages, or you could hide it in someone's page that you hate to fuck with them.

Text work and useful tags

A lot of HTML tags work on MediaWiki. Some of them even have shortcuts. Double-tapping enter makes a new paragraph. It works similar to <p> but you cant assign a class to it