Wiki:Welcome

This wiki helps users learn more about Fancade and its game-making tools. Pages are written by Fancade users themselves. Maybe you want to help improve the wiki too?

Rules

Yes? You'd like to contribute? Great! Here's some advice to help you get started editing.

Write about Fancade

The wiki is about Fancade, so stay on topic.

Create an appropriate page

Before creating a brand new wiki page, check if:

The page already exists, just with a slightly different name?
The info doesn't fit better as a note on an existing page?
The page is likely to be useful to other Fancade users?

For certain categories of articles, their notability guidelines are listed below.

Games

In general, articles for games should be created if at least one of criteria is met:

They are in the list of featured games
Is on a series and at least one of the games in the series is featured (c)
Contains technical details (Extreme Painist)

Scripts

Articles under Category:Scripting should be created mostly when:

It is useful for future readers
It contains details necessary to build the script (How to make hexagons)
The article is long enough to warrant its own article
- If it is short, consider putting it on the necessary block.

Refrain from creating articles ending with questions.

Don't save unfinished edits

If you're not done yet, but you can't continue working right now, you can always quit the browser and get back to editing later (the wiki will remember the state of the page and will prompt you to recover it when you begin editing again).

Don't leave unanswered questions

If you're not sure about something, don't ask future editors to correct you in the page:

NG: Constraints are very difficult to learn. (Maybe it's just me?)

Those who can answer your question will rarely visit the page, so you will end up throwing your question at readers'. Feel free to join our Discord server and ask your question there, in order to eventually provide the most accurate information to readers!

How-to

Want to help but have no idea how it's done? Read below to learn how to format text and create new pages.

Create a page

Type a page name. If it does not exist, the Wiki will indicate creation of the article. Click the link to proceed. Now, write the contents of the page. Then, categorize the page accordingly. (If you don't know much categories yet, you may leave it.)

Now you can write a Wiki page! After you have written it all, click "Show preview" to make sure everything looks correct.

Style a page

The wiki supports the powerful MediaWiki syntax. Please consult Wiki:Manual of Style for proper formatting of pages.

Basics

Emphasis

Emphasize text by surrounding text with ''double'' (italics) or '''triple''' (bold) single quotation marks.

Add link

To insert a link, you can:

Wrap page name in double square brackets	[[Number]]	Number
Wrap page name in double square brackets and put a suffix	[[Number]]s	Numbers
Wrap page name in double square brackets and set displayed text	[[Number\|One]]	One
Wrap URL in single square brackets	[https://fancade.com/]	[1]
Wrap URL in single square brackets and set displayed text	[https://fancade.com/ Fancade]	Fancade

Make list

To insert a list element, put *, + or - at the beginning of a line. For example,

* Fancade
* is the fanmade
* arcade

will be

Fancade
is the fanmade
arcade

Add file

To add a file, click "Upload file" found on the right sidebar.

Files are located in another namespace. To insert an existing file, click the image icon located at the bar above the editor. A new window should pop up and guide you. Prefer frameless images. Finally, it should appear as follow:

[[File:Odd Bot.png|frameless|400px]]

For complete details, visit mw:Help:Images.

Delete a page

Request a page to be deleted using Template:Delete, e.g.

{{delete|Spam}}

Revert a change

Go to the page's history (through link in the latest changes), check the commit, compare and revert.

Rename a page

Click Rename, and enter the new page name.