Help:Contents

Sarna.net runs MediaWiki software to enable anyone in the BattleTech community to contribute to the website.

Quick Help

Recommend reading:

1. First, review the official MediaWiki MediaWiki Help Contents for Editors.
2. Next, consider reviewing MediaWiki's Wikitext examples (wiki != HTML). You can also access the Wikitext Reference Card
3. Play around in Help:Sandbox. This article is meant to be used for testing.
4. Finally, please contribute to the Sarna.net BattleTech Wiki!

Getting Started

• Getting Started
• Editing an Existing Article
  • Cleaning Up an 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 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 To-Do and Wanted lists.

Guidance Pages

How-Tos

Help:A quick guide to templates Help:About help pages Help:Basic copyediting

Help:Category Help:Citation Style 1/accessdate Help:Conditional expressions

Help:Labeled section transclusion Help:List-defined references Help:Magic words

Help:Purge Help:Referencing for beginners Help:Substitution

Help:Switch parser function

Help articles

Help:About help pages Help:Categories Help:Cheatsheet/Draft Help:Cite errors Help:Cleanup Help:Collapsing Help:Color Help:Color/Accessibility

Help:Columns Help:Commonly used templates Help:Conditional expressions Help:Create a New Article Help:Deletion Help:Disambiguation Help:Editing Help:Getting Started

Help:Images Help:Line break handling Help:List Help:Maintenance template removal Help:Managing files Help:MediaWiki namespace Help:Metatemplating Help:Parameter

Help:Redirect Help:Shortcut Help:Sic Help:Special pages Help:Substitution Help:Table Help:Table of contents Help:Transclusion

Help:User Sub-Page Creation Help:Verify Help:WebArchive Notes Help:Wiki markup Help:Wikilinks

Information Pages

Information:Age calculation templates Information:April Fools Information:Controlling search engine indexing Information:Essay

Information:FAQ BattleTechWiki:Masthead Information:Namespaces BattleTechWiki:Policies, Essays, Procedures, & Projects

BattleTechWiki:Projects BattleTechWiki:Requests for comment Information:Rules for Fools BattleTechWiki:SPAM

Information:Shortcut Information:Succession Box Information:Succession Box/Cheatsheet Information:Succession Box/Templates

Information:Tagging pages for problems Information:The perfect article Information:What is an article? 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 User:Dude RB/Help:CreateProductArticle Category:Retired Procedures

Policies

Policy:Article Naming Policy:BattleTech Essays Policy:Canon Policy:Citation needed

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 Policy:Vandalism Policy:Verifiability

BattleTechWiki Essays

BattleTechWiki:Attribution needed BattleTechWiki:Data Mining BattleTechWiki:External resources

BattleTechWiki:File copyright tags BattleTechWiki:Five Core Policies BattleTechWiki:Planet Article Overhaul

BattleTechWiki:Resolving disputes BattleTechWiki:Subpages BattleTechWiki:System coordinates

BattleTechWiki:Template index/Blocks BattleTechWiki:Template index/Counter-Vandalism BattleTechWiki:Template index/Personal Attacks

BattleTechWiki:Who are BattleTechWiki's Editors?

External Resources

Official MediaWiki Help

• MediaWiki Help Contents
• Editing Guide
• Wikitext Reference and Examples
• Printable Wikitext Reference Card

Other Tools

• Convert HTML to Wiki
• Convert CSV to Wiki