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	For starters if you are reading this page it means you want to help with the wiki. Yay for you!		For starters if you are reading this page it means you either need help or you want to help with the wiki. Yay for you!

	We are still very much unorganized, so contributing at this stage is important. I'm actually making all of this up as I go along. You can help decide how things are organized by joining the Wolfire Forums and discussing the crap out of how bad the wiki is and how it should be.		We are still very much unorganized, so contributing at this stage is important. I'm actually making all of this up as I go along. You can help decide how things are organized by joining the Wolfire Forums and discussing the crap out of how bad the wiki is and how it should be.

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For starters if you are reading this page it means you want to help with the wiki. Yay for you!

We are still very much unorganized, so contributing at this stage is important. I'm actually making all of this up as I go along. You can help decide how things are organized by joining the Wolfire Forums and discussing the crap out of how bad the wiki is and how it should be.

Now, the first step is to log in at the top right corner using your wolfire (does it need to be SPF?) login (if you have an underscore in your handle/alias/name you might have some trouble). Only after logging in can you then begin to contribute to the wiki.

Editing a wiki may seem like a daunting task if you don't know that much about modding, code or wikis, but it really only requires common sense to edit a wiki. No knowledge of code is needed. There are a few basic formatting markers but those are easy to pick up. It's more important to know how to communicate through your words than to code.

Remember the more you help, the easier it becomes for the next person to contribute and learn.

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==Learning by Example==

Any wiki using the standard wiki engine will allow you to see its source, and so it's easy to learn how to create an awesome wiki: all you have to do is look at their code

You can do that by either clicking "'''Edit'''"/"'''Edit this page'''" or "'''Source'''"/"'''View source'''".

===Useful Examples===

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''Note: These examples were not picked for any reason apart from being educational resources.''

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikipedia] The Behemoth that started it all. Examine their ''extensive'' code at your own risk.
*[http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia Wikia] Not one wiki, but a vast collections of wikis hosted in one location.
*A variety of cool Wikia Wikis:
**[http://bioshock.wikia.com/wiki/BioShock_Wiki Bioshock Wiki]
**[http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Harry Potter Wiki]
**[http://www.wowwiki.com/Portal:Main Wow Wiki]
**[http://marvel.wikia.com/Main_Page Marvel Database Project]
**[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Wookie Wiki]
**[http://lyrics.wikia.com/Main_Page Lyrics Wiki]

===Categories===
There are many categories already [[: category: categories| available]]. Typos will create category. So double check and if you don't see any category that fits ask before creating your own. [[Special:Categories |List of Categories]]

Here's are some help pages on categorization:
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Overcategorization
* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Categories
* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Category

====Art====
{{art image categories}}

====Games====
*Black Shades
*GL Fighters
*Lightning's Shadow
*Lugaru
*Overgrowth

====Help====

====Lore====
{{Lore categories}}

====Modding====

====Portals====

====Wiki Contributors====

====Wolfire====

==Editing a Wiki Page==
* ANYONE WHO UNDERSTANDS THIS SECTION PLEASE EXPLAIN IT MORE

===Wiki Code===
{{stub}}

Here is the format that all edit code should start out with:

<pre>
(note that every , also, the order in which these things appear are suggestions not requirements)


<noinclude>
 [[Category: Example]]
 (aka wiki magic words)

Your PRIVATE content should start here
</noinclude>


<includeonly>



Your INCLUDED content should start here
</includeonly>

PUBLIC // Displayed on this page, and transcluded on pages that use this template
Categories -->


Your PUBLIC content should start here
</pre>

====Magic Words====
{{stub}}
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Magic_word

====Links====
To add links in your page you use:
<pre>
a link to a website:

[http://www.example.com/ A test page] == A test page

to link to a page:

[[page_name |Page Name]] == Page Name

[[page name]] == page name

[[Equipment and Weapons#Dog Weapons|Dog Weapons]] == Dog Weapons (inside the Equipment and Weapons page)

to link to a category it's important not to forget the colon ':' in front:

[[: category: Wiki Contributors]] == category: Wiki Contributors

you can also link to a special page by:

[[special: Special Page]] == special: Special Page
</pre>

====Content Box====
{{stub}}
Contents are 'organized' by adding:
<pre>
=={1}Intro==
=={2.1}Thing==
==={2.1.1}partOfThingOne===
==={2.1.2}partOfThingTwo===
=={3}OtherThing==
=={4}(actually no idea what this should be)==
...
...
...
</pre>

* There is still no wolfire wiki convention yet to how you should organize your page. When it happens, though, please stick to the convention.

{{Templates}}

==Next Phase==

Now goto to the [[: Category: Wiki Contributors]] page and see whats happening with the wiki.

[[Category: Tutorials]]
[[Category: Wiki Contributors]]

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Conner36 at 18:12, 11 March 2012

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