Editing Editor Tools

=Migration Procedure=

==Phase 2a: Categorization==
All pages need to be in categories in order to be backed-up efficiently with the Export Utility

For now, Uncategorized pages will be categorized as "Need Work" in order to get them exportable as quickly as possible.

==Phase 2b: Prettification==
Make sure the new pages are pretty.

*Check on:
**"[[Uncategorized Pages]]" and
**[[:Category:Pages with broken file links]]
**Since where the pages with problems are conveniently listed

*For reference, open on the old wiki: 
**http://scaheraldry.wikispaces.com/Names and/or
**http://scaheraldry.wikispaces.com/Armory on the scaheraldry wikispace
**(since Names and Armory are the bulk of the pages on the old wikispace).

*Fix formatting problems. Mostly commonly damaged:  
**Bullet lists (* code), and
**italics (' ' code)
*Make sure images are okay (if not, see instructions above)
*Add categories to the bottom of the new page - Category:Names, Category:Armory, Category:English Names, etc.
**The full command is <nowiki>[[Category:Names]]</nowiki>, etc.
**Don't have to put in all possible categories to begin with, but the main category such as Names or Armory at least
*Save the changes.

Click on any new categories you just created and make sure their parent categories are correct.
Go back to old wikispace page
*Change tag from "people" to "people moved" or from "event" to "event moved"
*Add note at top of old page, ''"This page has been moved to scaheraldry.info"''
*Lock the old page (under the ... button)

= Creating New Accounts =
New users can be created by sysops ("bureaucrats"), in the following manner:

# Go to Special:Userlogin, when logged in as a sysop.
# Click on "Create an account" link to get to the account creation form.
# Enter the username and the new user's email address, and click the "by email" button. 
# The account will be created with a random password which is then emailed to the given address (as with the "forgot password" feature). The user will be requested to change password at first login; this is done, the e-mail address will be marked as confirmed.
#: <small>When you click the "create account" button instead, you have to manually send the user his password. If you've set $wgMinimalPasswordLength=0 (default configuration up to version 1.15) and you've left the password field blank, the user will be emailed an e-mail address confirmation request but will be unable to access Special:Confirmemail to perform the confirmation. Instead, the user will get an error (unless you've added it to $wgWhitelistRead); the user will be able to login with a blank password and then confirm email, but their password will not have been reset (it will have to be reset manually).</small>


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=Templates:=

*Names - [[Template:Names]]
*Armory - [[Template:Armory]]
*References - [[Template:References]]

*Awards - [[Template:Awards]]
*Kingdoms - [[Template:Kingdoms]]
*Name Consults - [[Template:Name Consults]]


To use a template:
*Open a new page like you normally would.  
**(Search for "Jane Doe" and click on  the name in the "'''Create the page "Jane Doe" on this wiki!'''" link.)
*In the edit box, put the code <nowiki>{{subst:Names}}</nowiki>, or other Template name as appropriate.
*Save the page without any other coding
*This will substitute in the Template text.
*Re-open the article for editing to fill in the blanks.

=Categories/Subcategories:=

*Categories and subcategories are used in MediaWiki to organize pages together much like tags were used on wikispaces.
*Categories are case-sensitive.

==Major categories are:==

*Names - information on documenting and submitting names in the SCA.  Subcategories for: 
**Type (Personal Names, Given Names, Bynames, Branch Names, Order Names, Locative Bynames...)
**Culture (English Names, French Names...),
**Theme/Meaning (flower names, water, battle...),
**Lingual Mixes (?)
**Others?
*Armory - information related to arms, devices, badges.  Subcategories include:
**Tinctures - colors, metals, furs and their combinations/contrasts
**Fields - field divisions, field treatments
**Charges - ordinaries, animate charges, inanimate charges (use categories as defined in the SCA Ordinary)
**Culture (English Armory, French Armory, etc.),
*References - tools and standard SCA heraldry references.  Subcategories:
**Consulting Tools - information on conflict checking, searches, etc. (Category:Consulting Tools)
**Administrative Handbook
**Standards for Evaluation of Names and Armory (SENA)
**Heraldic Primers/Articles (Primers)
**Rules Articles (Rules)
**Kingdom - information about SCA Kingdoms: contacts, principal heralds, heraldry
**Awards - cross-reference under relevant Kingdom
**History - ?

A few subcategories may fall under more than one category/subcategory.  For example, Golden Calon Swan is a subcategory of Awards, but also a subcategory of Calontir.

MediaWiki automatically makes a Category page for any category assigned to a page.
  
Categories are assigned by putting the relevant code at the bottom of the page:  
*Using the text editor, <nowiki>[[Category:Name]]</nowiki>

Many pages will belong to multiple categories, and each category needs it's own bracketed command.
*For example, Golden Calon Swan is Category:Awards, Category:Calontir

The same code is use to create category trees.  
*So the page Category:Awards would have the code for Category:References at the bottom.

=Backups=
==Exporting==
*Performing back-ups is done with the Export Utility.  This is linked in the menu as "Export Pages" or can be found near the bottom of "Special pages".
*Pages can either be added: 
** en-bloc based on their Category (subcategories have to be loaded individually) OR
** one-by-one by title (which is obviously highly impractical)
*Export settings:
** Current revision, without history
** "Save as file"
** The template option doesn't seem to be necessary
*Save to the backup folder with descriptive name reflecting the main category being backed up for example, blah-blah-Armory-blah-blah.xml
*Images are already on the home computer in the folder they were uploaded out of.

==Importing==
*Find the Import page at the bottom of "Special Pages"
*Click on the previously exported xml files
*Done (?)