Camp Half-Blood Role Playing Wiki:Guide to Getting Started

So, you're new here, and want to know what to do? Well, I've got your back.

Sign up for the wiki
The very first thing is to make an account on the wiki. To do that, go to the top right, and click where it says register. Then fill out the form, and go through the process. Keep in mind, your username does not need to be the name of your character, and is even discouraged. Instead, try to come up with something interesting, or use a name you use for a different service, such as email or xbox live. When you are registered for the wiki, move on to the next step.

Getting Claimed
Next is to get claimed. You will need a rough description of you character, and three gods that you would like to be a child of. Keep in mind some cabins are full, and cannot be applied to. To get started, try filling out this outline: Name: Gender: God-parent: (remember, pick three) History: If you can fill that out completely, with at least a paragraph for a history (keep in mind, more is better), you are ready to move on.

Fleshing it out
You will be more likely to be claimed if you can further expand upon your character. You could talk about their personality, their parent (you can write one option for each gender parent, if necessary), how they fight, appearance, etc. Now try filling this out:

Name: Gender: God Parent: (choose three) Mortal Parent: Apperance: Personality: History: Weapons: (not always applicable) If you can do that, you are ready to be claimed. Go to the claiming page, and follow the instructions, then copy over your above form, all filled out. Check back later see if it has been approved. If it has, you are ready to move on! If not, fix the indicated things, and put something at the end of the page to the effect of "I fixed it", and put ~ at the end, to sign it.

Your character page
After your claim is accepted, you should start on a page for your character. Go here to do just that. For the Article title, put in the name of your character. Make sure you spell it correctly, as if you mess up, you will need an admin to fix it for you! Now, there are three things you are going to want to do first, and that is put in some templates. You will want to put in the following three code sets on your page, first:

Make sure you fill out all the info for the one above!

You need to put in your username where it says username

Where it says god, you will put the name of the god your character is a child of

Adding the info
Now you need to add the info for your character. Below the stuff I had you copy in, put in your characters information. A good rule of thumb is to break it up into sections: one for your appearance, one for your history, one for your personality, and one for your stuff. The easiest way to make one of these sections is to use a title format. So what you do is type what you want the title to be, for our example, lets say "Appearance". Then highlight the text (double click the word) and look towards the top of the sreen, on the left. You should see a box, that says normal. Click that. A menu should appear. Click "Heading 2". Done! Now fill out the relevant information for that section below the heading, and repeat when you get to your next section. You are now almost done with your character page. Just one last step!

Getting an image
In the above template, you may have noticed one bit called "image", to which you no doubt though, "but I don't have an image!" Well never fear, friend, because I have a way to help. Go to tektek to design an avatar to use with your character. When you have filled out the avatar the way you want, click save avatar. Then right click on the image after it saves, and click "Save Image As" (or similar) and save it. Make sure to name it something simple you can remember. Then, come back to the wiki, and on the right, where it says "Upload Image" and chose the image you just saved. Look at the name, and make sure you remember it. Now go back to the image bit of the form up above, and put in that exact name, including the .png, .jpg, or whatever. Now click Publish, at the bottom. You're done!

Getting an Iris Message
Iris Messages (IMs) are little speach bubbles the people use when they want to indicate that their character is saying something, as opposed to them. For instance, my main character Iko's IM looks like this:

Which is, in turn, really this, before it is filled out:

To add the time and message in place of the {{{1}} and, you would write it like this:

Now, if you want to know what that all means, I'll explain. the {{ means we are starting a template. Then, the word, Iko, just happens to be the name of my character. Yours will be different. The next bit, the |, means it is starting the first 'variable'. What you put there will replace the {{{1}}} on the unfilled template. The 5 ~'s will insert the date and time, so you dont have to. Next comes another |, meaning we are now moving to the second 'variable', the. That is the message bit. So that is where you write the message. So, the filled out one I posted above would look like this: {{Iko||Hello, newbie.}} So at this point, I'm sure you want to know how to get your own! So now you will go back to the page creator and make the template. To make the template, make the article title Template:FirstName, obviously replacing FirstName with your character's first name. Then paste the following code in: {{Word Bubble }} for the colors, you can use words, such as red, or a hex color generator. Save the page, and use as indicated.
 * image     = just the image name, again with the .png, .jpg, whatever
 * color     = top bg color
 * color2    = bottom bg color
 * textcolor = top txt color
 * textcolor2 = bottom txt color
 * line      = middle line color
 * fonttype  = font style
 * charname  = how you want their name to appear
 * charpage  = page with char info, (actual page/character name)
 * cabin     = cabin name (i.e. Athena's Cabin)
 * godparent = name of god parent
 * title     = title, counsellor, teacher, etc
 * time      = {{{1}}}
 * text      = {{{2}}}