Gamepedia Help Wiki/Section 2

For New Editors

• Introduction
• How to edit
• Formatting
• Links
• Citing sources
• Getting started on editing
• Beginner's guide to syntax

• Talk pages
• Keep in mind
• Registration
• Wrap-up
• Policies and Procedures
• Adding pages

Basic Resources

• Starting a new page
• Formatting
• Basic tables
• Basic images
• Links
• How to create a great guide or tutorial

• Templates
• User page
• Talk pages
• Moving (renaming) a page
• Protected pages

Advanced Resources

• Bots
• Cargo
• Common skinning problems
• DPL
• Fonts
• Image manipulation
• Writing templates
• Skin customization

• Editable tooltips
• Collapsible content
• Subpages
• Magic words
• Namespaces
• Special pages
• User-generated guide creation
• Logging in to third-party tools

Gamepedia Resources

• How to contact Gamepedia staff
• Extensions
• Editor of the Month

• Achievements
• CurseProfile
• Gamepedia Slack

For Wiki Admins

• Administrators guide
• User groups and permissions
• Blocking users
• Dealing with trolls and vandals
• Requesting extensions
• Analytics Dashboard

• New to moderating
• Protecting and unprotecting pages
• Deleting and undeleting
• Patrolled edits
• Range blocks
• Move your wiki to Gamepedia

External Help Resources

• MediaWiki
• MediaWiki Widget Catalog

• Creative Commons Licenses