Loomian Legacy Wiki:Wiki Code

Wikitext, also known as Wiki markup or Wiki code, consists of the syntax and keywords used by the MediaWiki software to format a page. To learn how to see this markup, and to save an edit, see: Help:Editing. It is recommended that you do not use the Visual Editor. Click here and select the source editor in the preferred editor dropdown.

Layout

The = through ====== markup are headings for the sections with which they are associated.

A single = is styled as the article title and should not be used within an article.

Section headings

Code	Renders as
= Heading 1 = == Heading 2 == === Heading 3 === ==== Heading 4 ==== ===== Heading 5 ===== ====== Heading 6 ======	Heading 1 Heading 2 Heading 3 Heading 4 Heading 5 Heading 6

Line breaks

Line breaks or newlines are used for making space or separating paragraphs.

A line break that is visible in the content is inserted by pressing ↵ Enter twice.
Pressing ↵ Enter once will place a line break in the markup, but it will not show in the rendered content

Code

Renders as

A single newline here
has no effect on the layout.

But an empty line starts a new paragraph, or ends a list or an indented part.

A single newline here has no effect on the layout.

But an empty line starts a new paragraph, or ends a list or an indented part.

Lists

Do not leave blank lines between items in a list unless there is a reason to do so since this causes the code to interpret each item as beginning a new list.

Unordered lists

Code	Renders as
* Item 1 * Item 2 Sub-item 4 a) * Sub-item 4 a) 1. * Item 3	Item 1 Item 2 Sub-item 2 a) Sub-item 2 a) 1. Item 3

Ordered lists

Code	Renders as
# Item 1 # Item 2 ## Sub-item 1 ### Sub-sub-item # Item 3	Item 1 Item 2 Sub-item 1 Sub-sub-item Item 3

Mix of both

Code	Renders as
* Item 1 # Sub-item 1 # Sub-item 2 # Sub-sub-item # Sub-item 3 Item 2	Item 1 Sub-item 1 Sub-item 2 Sub-sub-item Sub-item 3 Item 2

Format

Text formatting

Code	Renders as
''italics''	italics
'''bold'''	bold
'''''bold and italicized'''''	bold and italicized
<pre>Preformatted text</pre>	Preformatted text
<syntaxhighlight lang="css"> .selector { color: red; }</syntaxhighlight>	.selector { color: red; }

Links and URLs

Link to another wiki article

A red link is a page that doesn't exist yet; it can be created by clicking on the link.
A link to its own page will appear only as bold text.

Code	Renders as
[[Loomians]]	Loomians
[[Loomians#List of Loomians]]	Loomians#List of Loomians
[[Loomians#List of Loomians\|Loomian List]]	Loomian List
[[Project:Rules\|]]	Rules

Interwiki links

To link to a page on a different community, enter w:c: followed by the domain of that wiki, followed by the page's name. See Help:Interwiki link for more information.

Description	Code	Renders as
Linking to another Fandom wiki page.	[[w:c:roblox:Loomian Legacy]]	w:c:roblox:Loomian Legacy
Linking to the Wikipedia.	[[wp:en:roblox]]	wp:en:roblox

External Links

To link to a page outside of FANDOM's domain, use single brackets followed by the raw URL, then the link text. Links without a link text will appear as [x], where x is the n^th external link on the page without a link text.

Code	Renders as
[https://www.google.com]	[1]
[https://www.google.com Google]	Google

Linking to a category or image

When linking to a category for demonstrative purposes rather than for categorizing a page, or if you want to link to an image file page without the actual image showing, put a colon after the double opening square brackets.

Code	Renders as
[[:Category:Loomian Legacy Wiki]]	Category:Loomian Legacy Wiki
[[:File:Wiki-wordmark.png]]	File:Wiki-wordmark.png

Tables

Tables are essential for displaying information in short and concise ways.

{| starts a table. Adding class="article-table" after it automatically styles the table, giving it borders and background color.
| starts a normal table cell in the row it is in.
! starts a table header cell in the row it is in.
|- starts a new table row beneath the previous row.
|} ends a table.

Code

Renders as

{| class="article-table"

! Heading 1
! Heading 2
|-
| Cell 1
| Cell 2
|-
| Cell 3
| Cell 4
|}

Heading 1	Heading 2
Cell 1	Cell 2
Cell 3	Cell 4

Templates

Using Templates

Templates can be used in a page by inserting {{Template Name}} into a page.
Variables can be set values by inserting Variable Name = Value after the template name. Variables are separated using pipes (|). Some variables do not have names and just require an input value directly after the pipe, such as in the first example listed below.

Code	Renders as
`{{Move Category\|Ranged}}`	Ranged
`{{Move Category\|Ranged\|Picture=only}}`	Ranged

Creating Templates

Templates are pages whose content can be translated onto another page. Template pages can be found by searching up Template:Template Name in the search bar. To create a new Template, change the URL to /wiki/Template:Template Name and click create.

Template Syntax

When creating templates, using variables and Parser Functions can be especially effective. Though there are many parser functions, this guide will only focus on the two most useful parser functions.

Use {{{VariableName|Value if no input for variable}}} to create a variable in a template. Naming a variable "1" will detect the first value after the template name and will not require an equal sign to set its value (i.e. {{Move Category|Ranged}}).
Parser functions are intiated in the following way: {{#FunctionName:Input
- The #switch parser function gives different, designated outputs when specific inputs are inputted and a default output when the input does not match a designated output.
- The #if parser function tests if an input is empty. When using the #if parser function in conjunction with variables, be sure to write {{{VariableName|}}}. This will ensure that the output for the variable is nothing when there is no input for the variable.

Code	Renders as
`{{#switch:Cat\|Cat = This is a Cat\|Dog = This is a Dog\|#default = Animal not in data}}`	This is a Cat
`{{#switch:Dog\|Cat = This is a Cat\|Dog = This is a Dog\|#default = Animal not in data}}`	This is a Dog
`{{#switch:Cow\|Cat = This is a Cat\|Dog = This is a Dog\|#default = Animal not in data}}`	Animal not in data
`{{#if:Testing123\|Yes Input\|No Input}}`	Yes Input
`{{#if:\|Yes Input\|No Input}}`	No Input