Amaranth Legacy:New Editor's Guide

Welcome to Amaranth Legacy! We hope you enjoy your stay here!

If you are intending to write on this site — whether in your own scope or in one of our many collaborative scopes — this is the best place to start.

Before you continue

This is important. Read this section carefully.

Make sure you have read and understand the rules. If you fail to follow the community rules, your content may be removed and you may be blocked from this website.

In addition, do not use other people's images which you do not have the right to use.

Required reading

The following pages are required to be read in addition to this one. They are necessary for understanding this page.

• FAQ
• Scope Guide
• Page Guidelines § Namespace usage
• Page Guidelines § Page naming
• Page Guidelines § Page hatnotes

Control over your content

One of our tenets is author autonomy. This means that we will not interfere with your work or restrict your content unless it breaks our rules. Because of this, you have total control over your content, its styling, and who you choose to collaborate with.

Your content may be edited or deleted by staff if it violates our rules. If this happens, you are not allowed to revert the changes.

In terms of your lore and how it is used, everything you write is your own. Within your own scope, you have total control over the canon and everything therein. People cannot make unwanted changes to your story or setting, nor can they reuse your content without your permission. Staff will enforce this on our websites. If you wish for any or all of your pages to be removed at any time, staff will do that for you. Any (otherwise rule-abiding) edits by other users that aren't fixes of or for technical bugs, accessibility, standardization, spelling, grammar, or explicitly permitted collaboration will be reverted by staff. This goes for edits by staff as well.

If you wish to permanently leave our community and want continued protection over your lore, make it known that you want your content deleted. Staff will do that for you so that nobody can enter the history and steal your content. If you do not do this, it may be adopted and rewritten by other authors.

Our enforcement of these is limited outside of the community. In that case, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International applies to your content.

If you do not put your page in a scope, your article may be adopted into another scope at any time.

Jargon definitions

MediaWiki

the software which runs this website and other platforms such as Wikipedia, Fandom, and Miraheze

wikitext

the markup language which is used to format pages

VisualEditor

the default way to edit pages which shows you how the page will look as it is being edited; it is limited to primarily text formatting, and advanced editing require the source editor

source editor

the advanced way to edit pages which shows you the wikitext as it is without any formatting

template

a reusuable portion of wikitext that can be easily used

namespace

the beginning part of a page name — which ends with a colon, such as Scope: — which indicates what type of page it is

infobox

a type of template which gives an overview of the page inside a box; it expresses information in a table format, with fields instead of paragraphs

hatnote

a type of template which gives a notice at the top of a page, usually about the Scope it is in or a warning about its contents

move / moving a page

to rename a page

Scope

see the Amaranth Legacy:Scope Guide

Setting

see the Amaranth Legacy:Scope Guide

Community Meeting

a weekly meeting in which community members and Community Managers discuss on changes which involve the community

How do I create a page?

Enter the page name you wish to create in the input box which says "Page name". Then, press "Create page".

What am I allowed to use on my pages?

Do not use other people's images which you do not have the right to use. It is not allowed to use random images from the Internet. This means that you are not allowed to use images from Google Images or Pinterest. Only original works, AI works, public domain works, or works which you have the right to use can be used.

How do I delete / rename my page / file?

You will need to ask a website steward.

How do I style my Scope?

You will need to ask a website manager. You will need the following:

• the border color (which can be a gradient) for light and/or dark mode
• the link text color (optional) for light and/or dark mode
• the scope symbol
• the scope background (PNG or JPEG)
• the primary text and secondary text for the hatnote

An example of all the above can be seen at Template:Cosmoria.

Where to ask questions

You may contact us by:

• leaving a message in our website chat
• joining our Discord and messaging one of the Website Managers
• emailing staff@amaranth-legacy.community