Help:Getting started

This page is for people who have never touched a wiki before. You do not need to learn any code. The wiki has a normal visual editor — bold buttons, headings, a menu for adding pictures — and that is what you will use. If you can write a Discord message, you can write a wiki page.

Everything below is written for that editor. There's an advanced section at the very bottom for people who want to poke at the raw markup, and you can happily ignore it forever.

Can I edit?

You need two things:

1. A wiki account — click Log in with Discord in the corner. There's no separate password to make and no sign-up form. It uses the same Discord account you're already in the server with.
2. Enough time served in the Discord. Roughly: a couple of weeks if you hold a sub role, or about three months otherwise. Mods and admins get in straight away.

If the Edit button isn't there, that's why. It sorts itself out on its own — just log in again once you've been around a bit longer.

Your edits get checked first

When you save, your edit goes into a queue and a mod waves it through. This is normal and it is not personal — it's just how the wiki keeps the spam out.

• You will see your change immediately.
• Everyone else sees the last approved version until a mod approves yours.
• A mod gets pinged automatically, so you don't need to go ask anyone.

Files you upload are the exception — those go live right away.

The editor

At the top of every page there are two tabs. The difference matters:

Tab	What you get	Use it?
Edit	The visual editor. What you type is what the page looks like. Bold, headings, links and pictures are all buttons on a toolbar.	Yes — this one.
Edit source	The raw markup behind the page, full of brackets and apostrophes.	Only if you want to. See the advanced section.

Edit is what you get by default, so you can just click it and start typing.

A few things worth knowing about the toolbar:

• Paragraph (the dropdown on the left) is where headings live. Pick Heading to break a long page into sections — the wiki builds the contents box at the top automatically.
• A with the underline is bold and italic.
• Insert is where pictures, clips, galleries and tables come from.
• Link (or Ctrl+K) turns whatever you've selected into a link.

When you're done, hit Save changes. Write a short note in the box saying what you changed — it makes life much easier for whoever reviews it.

Making a new page

Pick one of these. They all end up in the same place.

The easy way: search for it first

1. Type the page name into the search box at the top.
2. When nothing comes up, the results page offers to create the page with that name. Click that.

Searching first is worth doing anyway, so you don't write a second page about a bit that already has one.

From a link on another page

If you're on a page that mentions something that deserves its own page, select the words, hit the Link button, and type the new page's name. Save. The new link shows up red, because it goes nowhere yet. Click the red link and you'll land straight in the editor for that new page.

This is the best way to do it — the new page arrives with something already pointing at it, instead of floating in space where nobody will ever find it.

By typing the address

Go to wiki.brucecooper.tv/Name Of The Page and, if it doesn't exist yet, there's a link to create it.

Naming it

• Write it the way you'd say it out loud: Predator Corner, not predator_corner or PredatorCorner.
• Only the first letter is capitalised automatically. The rest is up to you.
• Don't worry too much — a page can be renamed later with Move, and every old link keeps working.

Linking to other pages

Select the words you want to turn into a link, click Link (or press Ctrl+K), and start typing the name of the page. It suggests existing pages as you type; pick one, or type a brand new name to create a red link.

The same box has an External site tab for linking somewhere off the wiki, like a Twitch clip or a YouTube video.

Link generously. A page nobody links to is a page nobody finds.

Categories

Categories file a page under a heading so people can browse to it. In the editor, open the ☰ menu at the top right, choose Categories, and type one in.

Use an existing category where one fits — have a look at Special:Categories first. A page can be in as many as you like.

Uploading images, clips and sounds

Go to Special:Upload (it's also linked from the front page).

1. Choose a file from your computer.
2. Give it a destination filename that means something. Bruce dab record.jpg is useful forever; IMG_20240817_002.jpg is useless the moment you close the tab.
3. Write a line in the Summary saying what it is and where it's from — which stream, roughly when, what's happening in it.
4. Upload.

What you can upload:

Kind	Formats
Images	jpg, png, gif, webp, svg
Video	mp4, webm, ogv, mpg
Audio	mp3, wav, ogg, opus, flac, mid
Documents	pdf

The size limit is 1 GB, which is far more than you need — a clip should be a clip, not a whole VOD.

Uploading a file does not put it on a page. That's the next bit.

A video won't play straight away

After a video upload the wiki spends a few minutes making versions that'll play on phones and slow connections. If it looks broken right after uploading, give it five minutes and reload. It's working.

Putting pictures and clips into a page

In the editor, click Insert → Images and media. That opens a box where you can search everything already uploaded, or upload something new right there without leaving the page.

Once it's in, click it to get options — a caption, which side of the page it sits on, and how big it is. A captioned picture on the right is the usual choice and it's the default.

Video and audio go in exactly the same way and turn into a player.

Insert → Gallery puts several pictures in a row if you have a batch of them.

After you save

• Your edit sits in the queue and a mod approves it, usually pretty quickly.
• If it gets rejected, it's almost always for being spam, an insult aimed at a real person, or something genuinely private. Rewrite and try again.
• Check Special:RecentChanges to see everything happening on the wiki, and Special:PendingChanges to see what's still waiting.

A few rules of thumb

• Write it like you're telling someone who wasn't there. "It was so funny" tells a stranger nothing. What happened, roughly when, and why it stuck.
• Jokes about the stream, not about real people's lives. Bits, quotes, incidents, running gags — yes. Someone's actual address, job or family — no.
• Don't be precious about it. Someone will edit what you wrote. That's the point of a wiki. Nothing is ever lost — every version is kept under View history, and anything can be put back.
• A short page is fine. Two accurate sentences beat an empty page. Someone will add to it.

Stuck?

Ask in the Discord. Nothing you can do here is permanent and nothing you can do here is going to break the wiki — every single change can be undone by a mod in about two clicks, so have a go.

Advanced: editing the source

Nothing in this section is required. The visual editor above does all of it for you. This is here for people who like typing brackets, and for the two or three things the visual editor can't do.

Every page is stored as wikitext, a plain-text markup. Click Edit source instead of Edit to see it. Use Show preview to check your work before saving.

⚠️ One trap that catches everyone: a line that starts with a space turns into a grey code box. If a chunk of your page suddenly renders in a monospace font, that's why — delete the leading space.

The markup

'''bold'''
''italic''

== Heading ==
=== Smaller heading ===

* a bullet
* another bullet

# numbered
# list

----   (a horizontal line)

A list item must sit on a single line. If it wraps, don't indent the next line — see the trap above.

Links and categories

[[Who is Bruce?]]                        link to a page
[[Who is Bruce?|the man himself]]        same link, different words shown
[https://twitch.tv/brucecooper Twitch]   link to somewhere off the wiki

[[Category:Lore]]                        put at the very bottom of the page

Pictures, clips and sounds

[[File:Bruceeyes.jpg|thumb|Bruce, mid-thought]]     captioned, floats right
[[File:Bruceeyes.jpg|thumb|left|A caption]]         put it on the left
[[File:Bruceeyes.jpg|thumb|300px|A caption]]        set how wide it is
[[File:Bruceeyes.jpg]]                              raw, full size, no caption

Several at once:

<gallery>
File:One.jpg|First caption
File:Two.jpg|Second caption
</gallery>

Video and audio use the same File:... syntax and turn into a player.

Embedding Twitch clips and YouTube

This is the main thing the visual editor won't do for you, so it's worth knowing.

Pasting the <iframe> embed code from Twitch does not work here. The wiki strips it out. Use this instead:

{{#ev:twitchclip|GleamingSwissFennelHumbleLife-QJ5v373XKieoxCL7}}

The long gibberish is the clip slug — it's the last part of the clip's address, after twitch.tv/…/clip/. Grab it out of the URL bar.

Other things that work the same way:

{{#ev:twitchclip|CLIP-SLUG}}          a Twitch clip
{{#ev:twitchvod|1234567890}}          a past broadcast (the number in the URL)
{{#ev:twitch|brucecooper}}            the live channel
{{#ev:youtube|dQw4w9WgXcQ}}           a YouTube video

You can set the width and add a caption by adding more bits, separated by pipes:

{{#ev:twitchclip|CLIP-SLUG|640|center|What happens in the clip}}

Clips are usually better uploaded as a file if they're properly part of the lore — Twitch clips can be deleted by other people, and then the page has a hole in it.