Help:Help

The Help pages below serve as guides to introduce aspiring editors to wiki editing. They cover standard MediaWiki functions, as well as custom site features. Experienced users may wish to refer back to this section for reference.

We hope you make use of these guides and look forward to seeing your future work on Starfield Wiki!

Help Guides

 * Reading
 * Navigation — Overview of the wiki's sidebar, page tabs, and user links
 * Searching — Take advantage of search features, including namespaces and boolean operators
 * Namespaces — StarfieldWiki uses namespaces extensively to organize its contents
 * Disambiguation Pages — What is a disambiguation page?


 * New Editors
 * Getting Started — Information for new editors
 * Helping Out — General suggestions for how to help contribute to StarfieldWiki
 * Task List — Specific tasks that need to be done on the wiki


 * Basic Editing
 * Quick Editing Guide — A cheatsheet for basic page formatting symbols
 * Editing Pages — How to make your first few edits
 * Edit Summary — Tell other editors what you changed
 * Show Preview — Preview your edit before saving to fix errors
 * Page History — View and work with old revisions of articles
 * Starting New Pages — Help SFW fill in the gaps in its coverage!
 * Formatting — Adjust page layout, make text bold or italic, create lists, and more
 * Links — Link text to other SFW articles or external websites


 * Advanced Editing
 * Images — Display visual content on articles
 * Tables — Display content in rows and columns
 * Categories — Place articles in their proper categories for better navigation
 * Magic Words — Insert SFW-specific variables and parser functions/subroutines to make dynamic page content
 * Templates — Save work and keep pages standardized by entering data into existing templates
 * Writing Templates — Understand the basics of template code
 * References — Cite your sources, most often in Lore articles


 * Other Topics
 * Determining a RefID — Use the Creation Kit to look up RefIDs
 * Testing Leveled Lists — Use the Creation Kit to preview leveled list results