editing with the visual editor

you can find the visual editor help there: http://docs.fckeditor.net/FCKeditor_2.x/Users_Guide

Foreword

Before you start contributing to the wiki, you should note some things. Everything you write may be overwritten or changed by another user. So you have no guarantee that your text stays as it is or even stays existing. Now, whenever you change something in the wiki - be it the changing of a text, creating a page or uploading a picture - make sure it is useful, uses correct grammar and fits in the concept of the wiki.
Don't make any useless changes, it only leads to arguments and a ban of your IP.

Basic codes

These are some codes that you should know if you edit the wiki.

Links

You have to differentiate between internal links and external links. Internal links can only link to a wiki page.

External links are used if you want to link to an external site (pretty self-explaining).

Internal Links

The code for an internal link is "[[title of the page]]".
Additionally, you can link by text. So if you click on a word it will open the page it links to. The code for that is [[title of the page|text]].

External Links

If you want to link to an external page, this format can be used: [http://www.example.com].
Do not forget to put the full address in between the brackets (with http://...)! As with the internal links you can additionally set a linking text.

This can be done using this format: [http://www.example.com text]

A third method of linking to external sites is just typing the whole adress. Then you cannot use an additional text but the whole link wil get displayed (see examples below).

Please note that if you don't set an additional text, the link will be displayed using consecutive numbers for each link without a text.

Category Links

If you want to link to a category and not to a page you can use this format: [[:Category:Tutorial]]. This results in: Category:Tutorial
Again, in addition you can use alternate text to display as a category link. Use this: [[:Category:Tutorial|The Tutorial Category]].It results in: The Tutorial Category

Examples

[[Main_Page|The main page]] will be displayed as: The main page

[http://www.rigsofrods.com] will result in: [1]

A second external link like that will result in: [2]

http://www.rigsofrods.com will be displayed like that: http://www.rigsofrods.com

[http://www.rigsofrods.com Rigs Of Rods] will result in: Rigs Of Rods

Appearance of text

There are several methods to change the appearance of your text. They are very useful and should primarily be used to highlight important things.

Bold Text

To create a bold text you must use this format: ' ' ' bold text ' ' ' .

Italic Text

For italic text you must follow this syntax: ' ' italic text ' ' .

Underlined Text

If you want to underline your text, you can do that using this format: <u>Underlined Text</u>

Striked out Text

This should commonly not be used. But if there is the need to create Striked Out Text, it can be done like that: <s>Text you want to strike out</s>.

Text Size

This should also not be used too often.
Big text can be created using this format: <big>Big Text</big>.
If you rather like to have small text you can use this format: <small>Small Text</small>

You can set the size of your text to a specific size using this format: <font size="X">Sized Text</font>
"X" must be replaced with a number (measurement in pt). Standard text size is 2 and you can set values from 1 to 7.

<font size="6">Text</font> will result in Text.
<font size="1">Text</font> will result in Text.

Superscript and Subscript

You can ^{raise a text} and _{lower a text}. Syntax is ^Superscript for raised text and _Subscript for lowered text.

Combination of codes

These codes can be combined to make bold & italic text for example.

To combine bold and italic text you can use this format: '''''Text'''''

For ^{underlined raised text} use this: ^{<u>underlined raised text</u>}

Enumerations

There are several styles for enumerations:

Images

After uploading your images here (and making sure they have a meaningful and unique name), you can embed an image in your article using this format: [[Image:Example.png]].

You can also use an advanced format.

[[Image:Name.jpg     | position | thumb |  border  | resize |  Description]]

The first parameter is the name of the picture.

Then you can set the position of it. Valid inputs are left, center and right.

Thumb means that the picture has a border around it and in between the picture and the border is the description.
Leave this parameter out for a standard picture without a border and a description.

Then you set whether the picture has a border around it or not. Leave this parameter out for a picture without a border.

The next parameter is the size of the picture in pixel. Leave this parameter out to set it to its original size.

And finally you can set a description.

Examples

You can type some text here and you'll see
that the image is on the left of the text if you use this format.
Hover the mouse over the picture to see its description.
Note that the resizing of a picture can cause some unexpected effects

Categories

A page should (in most cases) be part of a category. This helps users to find multiple pages concerning the same topic.

To add a page to a category, add this to the end of the page: [[Category:NAME]]. NAME must be replaced with the name of the category.
Here is a list of valid categories: Categories

Headings

You can (and you should!) divide a wiki page into several sections using Headings.
There are 4 types of headings. They differentiate in size and are used for the table of content.

= Heading 1 =
== Heading 2 ==
=== Heading 3 ===
==== Heading 4 ====

Heading 1

---

Heading 2

Heading 3

Heading 4

Highlight boxes

If you want to bring out a text, you can use:

• Note:

{{sandbox|the text of the note here.}}

• Warning (Please don't abusse):

{{warning| warning text goes here}}

Advanced Editing

Aligning A Text

Another useful option is to align your text. You can use this format: <div style="text-align: XXX;">Text</div>
XXX must be replaced with either left, center or right.
<div style="text-align: center;">Centered Text</div> results in:

Advanced users can use this format: <div style='float:position;width:XX%'>Text</div>
Position must be replaced with left, center or right.
XX must be replaced with a number consisting of two digits. This allows a more accurate positioning of text.

At the end of the aligning you must enter this code:

<div style='clear: both;'></div>

Using the following code:

<div style='float:left;width:20%'>#Text 1<br>#Text 1.1</div>
<div style='float:left;width:40%'>#Text 2<br>#Text 2.1</div>

You'll get this:

Line Break

You can set a
line break using this tag: <br>