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 Title
• Full Nation Name/Post Title

Then search it into the search bar and click the red text to create the page.

Searching and creating the page via red link

Searching and creating the page via red link

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.

The insert menu

Then search up 'news' and click the 'News Header' Template.

Selecting the News Header template

3. Filling Template Content

Once the News Header template is added, you are shown this screen:

Template configuration fields

• News Category Type = Character/Domestic/Global News (Only)
• Subheading / Headline = Optional Subheading
• Real-world date (REQUIRED) = Must be in YYYY-MM-DD format!
• 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!

Header inserted on page

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!

Categories automatically added on save

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!

5. Adding the Post to the Timeline (Recommended)

Once the page is saved, you can add it to the timeline! Click the Era Nova, Year X category at the bottom of the page:

Category link at page bottom

You are then brought to the Era Nova Year X page!

Era Nova Year page

Enable edit mode by clicking 'Edit' and scroll down the table to find the date you want in Global/Domestic/Character News (e.g., 2026-09-05).

Timeline table date row

As you can see in this specific case, the space is already taken up. Don't worry! Follow these instructions:

1. Click the box you want to use and you should see a blue arrow on the left.

   

   Blue selection arrow

2. Click 'Insert Below'.

   

   Inserting row below

3. Shift-click the newly created box on the left with the existing 'In Universe Date' and merge the two boxes together.

   

   Selecting cells to merge

   

   Merged date cell

4. Now, in the post section, type [[ to bring up the link menu. Search up your character/nation name FIRST and then locate your news post title after the /.

   

   Searching for page link

   Once you have found it, click it. It should then come up with a link to the page. Now, you must get rid of the Full Character Name/ before the title—you can do this through clicking 'Change Text' and removing it!

   

   Changing display text to hide prefix

5. Finally, you can do the same in the character/nation section with [[ to link to their respective pages. Once that is done, the last thing you need to do is insert the date and boom. You're done!

   

   Completed timeline row entry

6. If you need any help, ping @_baseplate on discord!