News Post Guide
News Post Guide
A complete walkthrough on how to properly format, publish, and add your character or domestic news posts to the Aquila Wiki and timeline.
1. Creating the Page
Ensure that your title begins with your character/nation name followed by a forward slash. For example:
Full Character Name/Post TitleFull Nation Name/Post Title
Then search it into the search bar and click the red text to create the page.
This ensures that a title can be used several different times by other characters and sorts the news posts properly. Don't worry, anything preceding the post title will automatically be hidden when using the News Header template!
2. Inserting the Template
Once you have clicked the red text, you have created the page. At the top, click insert and then template.
Then search up 'news' and click the 'News Header' Template.
3. Filling Template Content
Once the News Header template is added, you are shown this screen:
- News Category Type = Character/Domestic/Global News (Only)
- Subheading / Headline = Optional Subheading
- Real-world date (REQUIRED) = Must be in
YYYY-MM-DDformat! - Author (Character) = Character name only (not player name!). Leave blank if using a news Publisher/Agency. Mostly for character news posts.
- Publisher / Agency = e.g., Government of [[Nation]] (Mostly for domestic/global news)
Once everything is filled in, click insert!
4. Inserting Your News Post
Once inserted, it should look like this!
You can then put your news post/text beneath the header. As you can see, the in-universe date is automatically calculated. Once finished, you can click 'Save Page' on the top right!
You can see that the categories for the news post are automatically added based on the Year, Type of news post, and the character posting it! You can also see that Full Character Name/ is automatically hidden as well!