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Revision as of 23:06, 2 August 2017

Thank you for agreeing to help with the May Day Mystery Wiki! I really appreciate your contribution, and look forward to working with you! – Hyacinth

Basic Information

The May Day Mystery Wiki was established in 2017 to centralize, digitize, and analyze clues and information related to the May Day Mystery. We are not affiliated with Bryan Hance, Robert Truman Hungerford, The University of Arizona, or The Orphanage.

Our Wiki is powered by MediaWiki, the same platform that powers Wikipedia.

General Formatting

Everything you need to know about formatting pages can be found HERE. Here are a few basics:

Text Formatting

'''Bold text'''

''Italic text''

'''''Bold & italic text'''''

<u>Underlined text</u>

<s>Struck out text</s>

<blockquote>Block Quote</blockquote>

Section Formatting

==Lv. 2 Headline Text==

Used for Page Sections, like ==Ad Interpretation==
===Lv. 3 Headline Text===

Used for Page Subsections, like ===Historical References===
====Lv. 4 Headline Text====

Very rarely used.

Bullets and Lists

Use asterisks to create a bulleted lists:

*Bullet 1

*Bullet 2

**Deeper level


Use number signs to create numbered lists:

# First item

# Second item

# Third item

## Deeper level list

Formatting Templates

Ad Pages

Use the following template to create and format an ad page. Copy and paste the below code into a new page and fill in the appropriate information.


{{Infobox
|title = X/X/XX Ad
|subheader = MAY DAY XXXX
|label2 = Publication Date
|data2 = MONTH X, XXXX
|label3 = Ad Source
|data3 = [http://www.maydaymystery.org/mayday/texts/xx-xxxx.html MM Site]
|label4 = Smiley Type
|data4 = [[Smiley with X hairs]]
}}

== Ad Transcript ==


==Ad Border==


==Ad Image==
[[File:NAME.jpg]]


==Leitmotiv==


==Ad References==
*

===Religious References===
*

===Historical References===
*

===Scientific References===
*

===Literary References===
*

===Translations===
*


Formatting Biographical Pages

Use the following template to create and format an biographical page. Copy and paste the below code into a new page and fill in the appropriate information.

{{Infobox
|title = FULL NAME
|subheader = SUBHEADER
|image = [[File:FILENAME.jpg|200px|CAPTION]]
|label2 = Born
|data2 = MONTH DD, YYYY
|label3 = Died
|data3 = MONTH DD, YYYY (age XX)
|label4 = Nationality
|data4 = NATIONALITY
|label5 = Occupation
|data5 = OCCUPATION, YYYY-YYYY
|label6 = Religion
|data6 = RELIGION, IF RELEVANT
|label7 = Known For
|data7 = LIST OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS
|label8 = Wikipedia
|data8 = [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XX_XX WIKI PAGE TITLE]
}}