Help:Getting Started

Welcome to the RTGame Wiki! We are glad to see that you're interested in helping out. Editing a wiki can be overwhelming at first with the number of pages that exist and the new writing language (wikicode) to learn, but it won't be long before improving and changing the wiki becomes second nature.

Quick Start

For the eager editor, this guide should show you a few of the steps to take before making your first edits.

1. Login to the wiki with your Discord account.
2. Ask for the editor role in the Wiki Discord. You will need the editor role to be able to edit the wiki. This step is to validate new editors and to help us reduce possible spam or griefing.
   • The Discord server is where we organize our page edits, ask for assistance, and discuss possible changes
3. Explore our editing guides
   • Start with Help:Editing to brush up on wiki code or Help:Style guide to write pages in a similar style to everything else.
4. Make your first edit!
   • We suggest editing your Userpage. You can put just about anything there. Try making a page like one of the Example articles.

Some suggestions for things to do

After you've familiarized yourself with basic editing on your userpage, it's time to make some important, world-changing edits!

• Browse the Tasks page to see some general and maintenance tasks that need to be worked on
  • This includes things like filling out stub pages (Which are missing some content) or adding detail to important pages.
• Adopt a page! Pick a page and make it the best page on the wiki. Fill it in with official, referenced info, and a good number of interesting images.
• Patrol the Recent Changes log to revert vandalism, help out other contributors, or suggest improvements

Additional Reading

• RTGame:Editing: a collection of guides on editing the wiki.
• Help:Editing: A general overview of editing syntax. Basic formatting code and how to edit/create pages.
• Help:Style_guide: A guide for the "style" of wiki pages. Mostly useful when first creating a page or adding large sections. Includes formatting for dates, linking, and citations.
• RTGame:Tasks: Task lists for new editors looking to contribute or request help.

References

An important part of wiki editing is references, citations, and sourcing. It's important to have primary sources for any facts or information that is posted on the wiki for correctness and to reduce misinformation.

Single citation

For references, simply use <ref name="Carrack Page">https://starcitizen.tools/Carrack</ref>. The source links will then be generated at the end of the page, or wherever <references/> is placed (Usually in the References section at the end)

Multiple Citations of the same reference

To cite the same reference/footnote multiple times, identify it using the Text or Name entry in previous references.

• Example: "The Carrack is 180,000kg" <ref name="Carrack Ship Page"/>
• Result: "The Carrack is 180,000kg"