Polandball Wiki:Editing Tutorial

Work in progress, Bain will add more later, may or may not be outdated

TO ADD: Userbox Tutorial, Infobox Icon Tutorial, Making Pages Tutorial

This is a tutorial for new users (and old if they possibly don't know some easy tricks). Make sure to read the rules first before editing anything. Not knowing the rules isn't an excuse to get you unbanned.

If you want to test these out just try them on your user page.

Source Mode (Classic Editor) Tutorial
First of all, when you edit pages you should just use normal editing mode... but if you want to add infoboxes or other templates or other "code" you should probably always use Source Mode since it isn't as laggy and buggy and it's just easier to format pages.

First you open the page obviously..

Basics about Infoboxes
Ok now that we learned to use Source Mode we can easily use infoboxes.

If you remeber them you can just type the sections out. Remove ones that are empty EXCEPT the image one. We will learn about the toolbar later.



Make sure to check how it looks like before publishing.

It should look like something this...



Aaaaand done!

Other Templates
There are many other types of templates you can use. Here's the more important ones: You can even use icons for making your infoboxes fancy!

Galleries and Files
Let's get uploading! It's pretty obvious what you have to do here... Make sure to ALWAYS credit comics taken from other sites! Alright, now for adding files.. Uh oh... that's way too big! Thankfully we can solve easily. That's better! Keep messing with numbers until you get the right result. Ok now time for galleries. They are pretty easy to make. Please do not put images outside galleries one pages...

Userboxes
Userboxes are little boxes that are put in the right part of an user's page. The general one is Template:Userbox. In the documentation of such template, you can see some of the more-detailed userboxes, like nationality ones, e.g.: -->