AHWiki:FAQ for editors

Some quick pointers for editors of this wiki:

Page names

• Don't use colons in page names (unless they're there automatically, e.g. Talk: or User: etc)
• You can create subpages (i.e. an existing page, followed by a forward slash, followed by the subpage name) but it should be avoided except for pages which are clearly subordinate to a parent page (e.g. Terrain Editor/Getting Started).

Categories

• You can see which categories, if any, a page is in by looking at the bar at the bottom of the page. If a page is not in a category there will be no category bar.
• Add a page to a category: e.g. to add a page to the "Aircraft of Aces High II" category, add this to the bottom of the page: [[Category:Aircraft of Aces High II]] - note this is not visible in page body but will display at the bottom in the category bar. Pages can be in any number of categories.
• Create a visible link to a category page (the list of pages/subcategories in the cat) like this: [[:Category:Aircraft of Aces High II]] (note the colon before Category)
• Make a category become a subcategory of another category... just like adding a page to a category. E.g. say we had a category called "Bombers of Aces High II", you could go to that category page and make it a sub-category of "Aircraft of Aces High II" by adding this to the bottom of the page: [[Category:Aircraft of Aces High II]]. Categories can have any number of subcategories, which can in turn each have any number of subcategories, etc etc.
• Categories are created automatically whenever any page is placed in the category (by adding a category tag like [[Category:whatever]] in the page - by convention at the bottom so we know where they are easily). Conversely, a category automatically disappears when no pages contain category tags for it.
• A "category page" is only created manually. To do that, you click on a redlink to the category (either from the All Categories list, or from a category bar at the bottom of a page), add some text and save it. It's a good thing to save at least some minimal text for each category (i.e. create the category page) so that the category can be used for navigation. However, don't put any significant text or other content only on a category page, as it won't be found in default searches.