Wiki formatting

These are some tips on how to make wiki rules pages display properly on the BGA site beneath a game, and notes on elements which do not work. Feel free to add additional issues and advice.

This page has been created following this forum thread. Because the BGA interface aggressively strips a lot of wiki markup when displaying page rules (all bullet points, images if they aren't formatted in a certain way, etc), users who are trying to write clear rules are either giving up (eg. after wrongly assuming images to be impossible) or making some rules pages worse (by taking paragraphs and converting them into clearer bullet points, without realising that those bullet points don't show up on BGA).

Bullet points

The BGA rules display strips all bullet points, if the regular wiki bullet markup of asterisks is used.

A common solution seems to be to add bullet-point unicode symbols. This also requires lines to be separated by paragraph breaks or <br/> tags, otherwise they all appear on the same line.

• Draw

• Play

• Discard

• Draw<br/>
• Play<br/>
• Discard

Headings

A level two heading ("==") will appear with a box around it on the BGA view. A level three heading ("===") will not.

Images

Attempting to specify an image size in image markup (eg. [[File:Marrakech example.jpg|300px]]) will work in the wiki view, but will mean the image is stripped out on the BGA view.

Images must be included at the default size (so must also be uploaded at the size you want them to appear), eg:

[[File:Marrakech example.jpg]]

It's also possible to add rollover text if desired:

[[File:Marrakech example.jpg|Example move]]

External links will also work within BGA:

[[File:Versions.png|link=https://lumberjacks-studio.com/en/project/trek-12_en/]]

In-article links

Linking to a section within a rules page (eg. [[#endgame|the Endgame phase]]) will work within the rules on a live game, but not on the gamepanel page (eg. https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=hanabi#Black_Powder). If the user clicks on such a link on a gamepanel page, the page will simply reload without taking them to that section.

Numbered lists

Like bullet points, a numbered list in wiki markup (with a "#" before each line) doesn't display correctly. Workarounds are to write out the numbers by hand, with either paragraph breaks or <br/> tags between them:

1. Draw

2. Play

3. Discard

1. Draw<br/>
2. Play<br/>
3. Discard

Tables

Table borders are stripped by the BGA display. They can be added back by adding a fixed width border to the image markup, eg:

{| class="wikitable" border="2"
|-
!0-90
|⭐
|-
!91-110
|⭐⭐
|-
!111-125
|⭐⭐⭐
|}

will display as:

0-90	⭐
91-110	⭐⭐
111-125	⭐⭐⭐