- Remember not to include personal or identifiable information on the wiki for anyone but yourself (if you choose to share it)—this means no addresses, no emails, etc.
- Please don't submit any copyrighted files, images, or text without permission!
- Use
<ref></ref>tags to reference outside sources for articles, then include{{References}}at the end of the page to display them!
Help:Quickstart
Here's some quick steps to get setup and oriented as an editor!
- If you have not already, you can use Special:CreateAccount to create an account (all you need is an email address and a password) and start editing.
- Some useful context to check out:
- The "Understanding the wiki way" section of Best practices for using MediaWiki to learn about the ethos of a wiki.
- The Stencil:Styleguide for guidelines on writing for and editing this wiki.
- If you're interested in some background, this post: robertbaxter.substack.com/p/red-link-citation-needed from User:Robertbaxter has some info on how this wiki came to be.
- An introduction to editing tools:
- To learn about wikitext (the markup language used for wiki editing) read the MediaWiki cheatsheet (more detailed information can be found in Help:Formatting—also from MediaWiki). Whenever you use the "Edit source" button it will take you to a wikitext editor (with limited WYSIWYG tools along the top bar).
- If you're editing the body of an article, it might be easier to use the Visual Editor—this is what you get when using the "Edit" button. It's a much more straightforward in-place editor, but not great at handling templates or fine-tuning layout.
- And for Category:Places, Category:Events, Category:Inks, Category:Duplicator series, and Category:Tutorials, you're probably doing most of your editing with a Page Form, using the "Edit with form" button. This is a pretty straightforward (though ugly) HTML form interface, with the body of the article in one big textbox at the end.
- Before you get editing pages, there's some important rules to know!
And that's it, welcome to the wiki!