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Many of the members of Totally Raiding, Inc. come with voluminous backstories and links to other characters. Since it has been joked that one needs a wiki to keep up with everything...
...here's the Wiki. Go wild.
Indexes
So, how do I edit a wiki?
First, you log in. There's a link at the top-right, and you can't see or do much here until you do. Use your forums login.
Once you're logged in, you'll notice a set of tabs at the top of every page -- Edit, History, Delete, etc. You can use the Edit tab to edit just about every page in the wiki. The only things you can't edit are UI elements (like the sidebar down the left side of each page), but you probably shouldn't edit those anyway.
So, pages. First, go to a page you want to edit -- I suggest starting with your user page. Every user has a page called "User:Name"; an easy way to get to it is to click on your username at the top-right of the screen once you've logged in. If you've never edited this page before, you'll be told that the page doesn't exist and offered the ability to edit it. We're using User pages to contain information about you, the player -- you can see User:Valinar or User:Teuthida for examples. This is also a good place to link to pages about your characters.
You link to other pages in the wiki by enclosing them in [[double brackets]]. So to create a link to a page on Magroin, you would just add [[Magroin]] on a page -- it would show up like this: Magroin.
To create a new page, just go to a page that exists (such as your User page), and add a link to a page that doesn't exist. Save the page, and click on the red link -- this will take you to the edit screen for the new page, where you can add it.
You can also add metadata to a page. For instance, if you make a page about a character who is a Night Elf Rogue, you would want this character to show up on the "Characters by Race" and "Characters by Class" pages. To do this, you have to tell the wiki that the page belongs in those categories. At the end of the page, add something like this:
[[Category:Night Elf]] [[Category:Rogue]] [[Category:DPS]]
Guild membership can be done the same way -- just add [[Category:Guild Name]].
Pages like category indexes work like any other page -- so if you click on a link to a guild's category page, you can edit the page freely, and a list of all the characters in that guild will appear automatically. There is one trick, though: to make a link to a category page (like a guild's page), you use something like [[:Category:Boomstick Gang]] -- note the extra colon before "Category" -- because otherwise you'll put the current page in that category instead of linking to it.
For external links, you can just type in the link -- http://totallyraiding.com will show up as http://totallyraiding.com. If you surround it with [single brackets] you can give it a label -- so [http://totallyraiding.com Totally Raiding Inc.] shows as Totally Raiding Inc.
Sometimes you want a link that has different text than it links to. To do this, create a normal link in double brackets, followed by the text you want to have appear. What is tricky about this is that in the case of wiki links, you separate the description from the text with a pipe character (|), while on HTTP links, you separate the description from the text with a space character. Examples:
[[:Category:Boomstick_Gang|The Boomstick Gang]] shows as The Boomstick Gang.
[http://totallyraiding.com Totally Raiding Inc.] shows as Totally Raiding Inc.
If you inadvertently use double-brackets on HTTP links... it usually works anyway, the wiki is pretty forgiving. For more advanced instructions, like headings, formatting, etc., you can see the [MediaWiki manual].
You can create pages on anything, not just characters -- events, towns, in-game lore, whatever. You probably want to link it to a User or character page, though, so that people can find it! If there turn out to be a lot of pages like this, we can create more indexes and categories later to help people find them. Finally, if you see a page doing something you like and you want to see how it's done -- just edit the page! It will show you the code behind it, and then you can cancel your edit after you see how it's done. And don't worry too much about screwing stuff up editing other people's pages -- the wiki keeps a record of every single edit made, so we can always go back and reverse changes.
