Help:Structuring a Page
Structuring a Page
Headings & Sub-Headings
Adding a hierarchy of headings and sub-headings helps to break down content and makes information on complex pages easier for users to navigate.
⚠️ Think of headings as a main topic of interest for a page and sub-headings as complements for each individual heading. A page can contain multiple headings and sub-headings.
For example:
In the article for The Gate to the Seventh Realm, the page is structured into seven headings, four Sub-heading 1, and three Sub-heading 2 as shown in its table of contents.
Tables of Contents
Along with digestibility, using headings to separate information on Wizzypedia pages also automatically creates a table of contents at the top of the article when four or more headings exist. Tables of contents contain clickable links that take the user to specific anchors on a page.
⚠️ Links in the table of contents may be copied and used as internal references on different pages in the wiki.
For example:
If there was a page that mentioned Red Hat Wizards, an editor could add a link to the Red Hats sub-heading on the Wizards (Runiverse) page from the page they are editing. This is particularly useful for interlinking specific sections of content.
⚠️ A table of contents will not appear on the article until all edits are saved.
Additional Paragraph Formatting Tools
Preformatted
Preformatted text is useful for preserving formatting like line breaks, spaces and indentations which can be crucial for displaying texts like programming code to keep structure and syntax intact.
For example:
In this image, the preformatted text in white is used to display code in the Decoder Crystal article.
Block Quote
Block quotes separate sections of text with a distinct format used to emphasize important statements or cite sources.
Using block quotes to highlight quotations also improves readability with visual indicators that allow the reader to separate it from the main text.
For example:
Block quotes in this Wizard Wednesday Recap separate direct quotes from the paraphrased content.
Page Title
The Page Title paragraph formatting option goes largely unused on Wizzypedia, relying on article Page Names to serve as the titles for individual pages. As such, using Title formatting is discouraged.
⚠️ Please do not use Page Title formatting.
For example:
The Page Name for the Wizards (Runiverse) page also serves as the article’s Page Title.
Paragraph
Paragraph formatting changes any other formatting selections back to normal paragraph text.