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WIKI_TASK: Help your fellow editors. Everything you struggled with when you first started as an editor here, they will struggle with too. Help write a short introduction and reference guide for new editors and readers so they will spend less time looking for those answer. Please have a quick look at the discussion page to read up on the intention/design goal of this page.

You are entirely new to a wiki or forgot most what you knew about wikis but you want to contribute to this wiki now? Then you came to the right place.

The first and most important lesson to take away from here is: This wiki depends on the contributions from you. In order to contribute, you need to edit. Therfore, do not hesitate to start editing if there is anything you feel you can contribute. Don't be shy. Whether it's fixing a simple spellingor grammar mistake, or an incorrect fact or adding new information - just go for it. Don't worry to mess things up - it's easy to correct or entirely roll back mistakes. You can also use the indestructable Sandbox page to mess around. You will quickly notice that it's very easy. If you want to get a heads start, read on.

The second lesson is: Firstly, this wiki is based on MediaWiki software - the same wiki software used by Wikipedia. Therefore, if you are looking for help how to do things here and you don't find the information below, just look it up on the Internet - there is plenty of information, often available in your own language. Good starting places are the MediaWiki wiki, the MediaWiki help pages and the Wikipedia help pages. Secondly, this wiki is hosted by Gamepedia, therefore it is additional support available. Make sure to consult their help pages too; actually, maybe go there first before heading out further.

Enough introduction, lets get started.

What is a wiki

Useful links

Start a new article

Alternatively, just type a new article name in the search box. A link will be provided to start the article at the top of the search results.

Register
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Need help
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+The '''first and most important lesson''' to take away from here is: '''This wiki depends on the contributions from you'''. In order to contribute, you need to edit. Therfore, do not hesitate to start editing if there is anything you feel you can contribute. Don't be shy. Whether it's fixing a simple spellingor grammar mistake, or an incorrect fact or adding new information - just go for it. Don't worry to mess things up - it's easy to correct or entirely roll back mistakes. You can also use the indestructable [[Sandbox]] page to mess around. You will quickly notice that it's very easy. If you want to get a heads start, read on.
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+**While you can edit anonymously, a [[Special:CreateAccount|free account]] makes it easier to keep track of your own edits.
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+**Check out the offical [[gphelp:|help wiki]].
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