File:Roblox Wikia talk page tutorial-3

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Transcription Hi, everyone! It’s your favorite Roblox Wikia admistrator, Acebatonfan. I want to give you guys a step-by-step example of how to use talk pages on the wiki. The benefit to using the talk pages now is that when our community moves to Wikia’s new Unified Community Platform, we will be able to still use frequently-used wikitext features, such as our templates.

Let’s begin by going onto my talk page. As you can see, I have just emptied it out and pasted in my old message wall greeting. For many of you, your talk page will also be empty because you have joined the wiki after we added in message walls. Think of talk pages like your usual wiki page. You have the classic section divisions that break up the article; similarly, talk pages use the same divisions to break down conversations. I am going to go and leave a message on another admin’s wall to show you how to post a conversation.

First off, we have our edit/leave a message button. I am seeing a little bit of both at the time of recording. Click on that button, and it will take you to what looks like an empty page. This is where your conversation with that editor is going to go. The first thing I want to do is put in a subject. You can do this two ways, but the easier way will be to put it in the edit summary, as it will automatically convert it to wikitext for you. I am going to go ahead and type something… Now that I am done, the last but most important step is to sign it. Signing it lets the other editor know who left them the message. Signing the message can be done by pressing the “signature” button up here or by using four squiggly lines in the page. Now that it’s signed, I can post it and it’ll automatically fill out the rest. If you forget your signature, you’ll receive a popup from Fandom that reminds you to put in your signature before you can save the edit.

It looks like our other admin Karasuneth posted on my talk page. Let’s go ahead and reply to him. Since the conversation has already been started, I don’t want to press the “leave a message” button. Instead, I am going to go down to the conversation and click on the edit button. It will take you to the conversation’s page where you can then type your reply. This is where using your signature is important, because without it nobody will know who replied to the message. We’ve sent that, and now you can see my comment is just below his with when I wrote it.

So now let’s go on to talk pages. This is also very similar to what we did earlier. I am going to go onto the Telamon page and show you how to make a comment there. What I am going to do is click to the little down arrow next to the edit button. That will pull up a menu that includes the talk page. I will click on that, and it will send me to make a new page since there is no talk page for telamon yet. Like with leaving a message for another editor, I am going to go put in a heading, my text, and my signature.