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Quick Help

Recommend reading:

1. First, review the official MediaWiki Editing Guide to learn how to edit a wiki. You can also check out the whole MediaWiki Help Contents.
2. Next, learn about MediaWiki's Wikitext Syntax (wiki != HTML). You can also print out a 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
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• Using WikiLinks
• Using Wiki Markup
• Commonly used templates
• Creating a Page
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  • Quickly Create - An Infantry Weapon Article (work in progress)
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  • Quickly Create - An Organization article:
    • Military Command
    • Solaris Stable
  • Quickly Create - A Planet or System Article
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  • Quickly Create - A Real Person Article
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  • Quickly Create - A Static Structure Article
  • Quickly Create - A Support Vehicle Article
  • Quickly Create - An Individual Vessel 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.

Additional Help articles

1. Help:About help pages
2. Category:BattleTechWiki accessibility
3. Help:Categories
4. Help:Cheatsheet/Draft
5. Help:Cite errors
6. Help:Cleanup
7. Help:Collapsing
8. Help:Color
9. Help:Color/Accessibility
10. Help:Columns
11. Help:Commonly used templates
12. Help:Conditional expressions
13. Help:Create a New Article
14. Help:Deletion
15. Help:Disambiguation
16. Draft:Edit Summary
17. Help:Editing
18. Help:Getting Started
19. Category:Help templates
20. Category:How-to
21. Help:Images
22. Help:Line break handling
23. Help:List
24. Help:Maintenance template removal
25. Help:Managing files
26. Help:MediaWiki namespace
27. Help:Metatemplating
28. Help:Parameter
29. Help:Redirect
30. BattleTechWiki:Research Desk
31. Help:Shortcut
32. Help:Sic
33. Help:Special pages
34. Help:Substitution
35. Help:Table
36. Help:Table of contents
37. Category:Template help
38. Help:Transclusion
39. Help:User Sub-Page Creation
40. Category:User space
41. Help:Verify
42. Help:WebArchive Notes
43. Help:Wiki markup
44. Help:Wikilinks

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20. Help:Template gallery
21. BattleTechWiki:Template index/Authoritative templates
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23. Category:Uncompleted Policies
24. Policy:Vandalism
25. Policy:Verifiability

External Resources

Official MediaWiki Help

• MediaWiki Help Contents
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