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Quick Help
Recommend reading:
- First, review the official MediaWiki MediaWiki Help Contents for Editors.
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- 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
- Deleting an Article
- Using WikiLinks
- Using Wiki Markup
- Commonly used templates
- Creating a Page (Procedures)
- Quickly Create - An Aerospace Fighter Class Article
- Quickly Create - A Battle 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 Corporation Article
- Quickly Create - A DropShip Class Article
- Quickly Create - A Dynastic House 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 - A Military Command
- 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 Sports Team Article
- Quickly Create - A Static Structure Article
- Quickly Create - A Support Vehicle Article
- Quickly Create - An Individual Spacecraft 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 BTW's Task Center and Wanted page list.
Help Pages
Help articles
- Help:About help pages
- Help:Archiving a talk page
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- Help:BattleTech Keywords
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- Help:Citations quick reference
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- Help:Cleanup Templates
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- Help:Copyright
- Help:CreateBARPGWeaponArticle
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- Help:CreateCreatureArticle
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- Help:Disambiguation
- Help:Edit summary
- Help:Getting started
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How Tos
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- Help:Footnotes
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- Help:Gallery tag
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Information Pages
- Information:About the sandbox
- Information:Accessibility dos and don'ts
- Information:Age calculation templates
- Information:April Fools
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- Information:Attribution needed
- Information:Bare URLs
- Information:Cartography Classification Tree
- Information:Categories versus lists
- Information:Categorization dos and don'ts
- Information:Citation templates and reference anchors
- Information:Cleanup process
- Information:Color contrast
- Information:Container category
- Information:Controlling search engine indexing
- Information:Customisation
- Information:Data Mining
- Information:Dead-end pages
- Information:Discord
- Information:Don't be rude
- Information:Double redirects
- Information:Drafts
- Information:Editors
- Information:Emoticons
- Information:External resources
- Information:FAQ
- Information:Fiction terminology
- Information:File copyright tags
- BattleTechWiki:Five pillars
- Information:Help namespace
- BattleTechWiki:History/Article Count History
- Information:Humor
- Information:Image dos and don'ts
- Information:Images
- Information:List dos and don'ts
- Information:List of infoboxes
- BattleTechWiki:Logos
- Information:Lua
- BattleTechWiki:Masthead
- Information:MediaWiki namespace
- Information:Merge and delete
- Information:Misuse of the sandbox
- Information:Namespaces
- Information:Orphan
- Information:Product Type Classification Tree
- Information:Questions
- Information:Quoting your own essay
- Information:References dos and don'ts
- BattleTechWiki:Requests for comment
- Information:Rules for Fools
- Information:Shortcut index
- Information:Show preview
- Information:Sic
- Information:Spam
- Information:Splitting
- Information:Succession Box
- Information:Succession Box/Cheatsheet
- Information:Succession Box/Templates
- Information:System and planetary naming convention
- Information:System coordinates
- Information:Table dos and don'ts
- Information:Tag bombing
- Information:Tagging pages for problems
- BattleTechWiki:Template index/Cleanup
- BattleTechWiki:Template index/Disputes
- Information:The perfect article
- Information:The value of essays on BattleTechWiki
- Information:To-do list
- Information:Vagueness
- Information:What is an article?
- BattleTechWiki:Who are BattleTechWiki's Editors?
- Information:WikiProjects
- Information:Your first article
Procedures
- Help:CreateASFClassArticle
- Help:CreateBattleArmorArticle
- Help:CreateCharacterArticle
- Help:CreateCombatVehicleArticle
- Help:CreateCommandArticle
- Help:CreateConvFighterArticle
- Help:CreateCorporationArticle
- Help:CreateDropShipClassArticle
- Help:CreateDynasticHouseArticle
- Help:CreateExoskeletonArticle
- Help:CreateFactionArticle
- Help:CreateIndMechArticle
- Help:CreateIndividualSpacecraftArticle
- Help:CreateInfantryWeaponArticle
- Help:CreateJumpShipClassArticle
- Help:CreateMechArticle
- Help:CreateOrganizationArticle
- Help:CreateProtoMechArticle
- Help:CreateSmallCraftClassArticle
- Help:CreateSolarisStableArticle
- Help:CreateSpaceStationClassArticle
- Help:CreateSportsTeamArticle
- Help:CreateStateArticle
- Help:CreateSupportVehicleArticle
- Help:CreateSystemArticle
- Help:CreateWarShipClassArticle
- Help:CreateWeaponArticle
- Help:Create Infantry Unit
External Resources
Official MediaWiki Help
- MediaWiki Help Contents
- Editing Guide
- Wikitext Reference and Examples
- Printable Wikitext Reference Card