Help:Contents
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Quick Help
Recommend reading:
- First, review the official MediaWiki MediaWiki Help Contents for Editors.
- Next, consider reviewing MediaWiki's Wikitext examples (wiki != HTML). You can also access the Wikitext Reference Card
- Play around in Help:Sandbox. This article is meant to be used for testing.
- Finally, please contribute to the Sarna.net BattleTech Wiki!
Getting Started
- Getting Started
- Editing an Existing Article
- Using WikiLinks
- Using Wiki Markup
- Commonly used templates
- Creating a Page (Procedures)
- Quickly Create - An Aerospace Fighter Class Article
- Quickly Create - A Battle Armor Article
- Quickly Create - A BattleMech Article
- Quickly Create - A Character Article
- Quickly Create - A Combat Vehicle Article
- Quickly Create - A Conventional Fighter Article
- Quickly Create - A DropShip Class Article
- Quickly Create - An Exoskeleton Article
- Quickly Create - A Faction Article
- Quickly Create - An IndustrialMech Article
- Quickly Create - An Infantry Unit article
- Quickly Create - An Infantry Weapon Article (work in progress)
- Quickly Create - A JumpShip Class Article
- Quickly Create - An Organization article:
- Quickly Create - A Planet or System Article
- Quickly Create - A ProtoMech Article
- Quickly Create - A Real Person Article
- Quickly Create - A Small Craft Class Article
- Quickly Create - A Space Station Class Article
- Quickly Create - A Static Structure Article
- Quickly Create - A Support Vehicle Article
- Quickly Create - An Individual Vessel Article (WarShip, JumpShip, DropShip or Small Craft)
- Quickly Create - A WarShip Class Article
- Quickly Create - A Weapon Article
- Creating a Sub-Page
- Request Admin Help
- How to Cite References
- How to use Magic Words
What To Contribute
Whatever you want! Contribute anything that comes to mind.
However, if you want some guidance, there are To-Do and Wanted lists.
Help articles
- A quick guide to templates
- About help pages
- Basic copyediting
- Categories
- Category
- Cheatsheet/Draft
- Citation Style 1/accessdate
- Cite errors
- Cleanup
- Collapsing
- Color
- Color/Accessibility
- Columns
- Commonly used templates
- Conditional expressions
- Contents
- Create a New Article
- Deletion
- Disambiguation
- Editing
- Getting Started
- Images
- Inline citation/Draft/examples
- Labeled section transclusion
- Line break handling
- List
- List-defined references
- Magic words
- Maintenance template removal
- Managing files
- MediaWiki namespace
- Metatemplating
- Parameter
- Purge
- Redirect
- Referencing for beginners
- Research Desk
- Shortcut
- Sic
- Special pages
- Substitution
- Switch parser function
- Table
- Table of contents
- Tag bombing
- Tagging pages for problems
- Template documentation
- Template index
- Template namespace
- Templates
- Transclusion
- User Sub-Page Creation
- Verify
- WebArchive Notes
- Wiki markup
- Wikilinks
Policies
- Policy:Article Naming
- Policy:BattleTech Essays
- Policy:Canon
- Policy:Citation needed
- Draft:Civility
- Category:Conduct policies
- Policy:Consensus
- Policy:Copyrights
- Policy:Editing
- Policy:Fanon
- Policy:General disclaimer
- Policy:Images
- Policy:Libel
- Policy:Moratorium
- Policy:Neutral point of view
- Policy:No legal threats
- Policy:No personal attacks
- Policy:Notability
- Policy:Privacy
- Policy:Real People
- Help:Template gallery
- BattleTechWiki:Template index/Authoritative templates
- BattleTechWiki:Template index/BattleTechWiki namespace
- Category:Uncompleted Policies
- Policy:Vandalism
- Policy:Verifiability
External Resources
Official MediaWiki Help
- MediaWiki Help Contents
- Editing Guide
- Wikitext Reference and Examples
- Printable Wikitext Reference Card