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Contents 1 Basics 2 General 3 For MediaWiki admins 4 Special tags and templates 4.1 Highlight Box 4.2 Signatures 4.3 Special characters 5 Further places to go

[edit] Basics

This page is intended to list the most useful "Help:" pages. Please help to create any that are needed or use the talk page to suggest what else we need or to ask whether we have something not listed here. See also category:help.

This may be the first one new members need:

• Editing

Others:

• Categories
• Copying from Wikipedia
• Creating new pages
• Images

Please see the Wikia Central Help pages for more help.

[edit] General

Follow these links for general help on wikia and editing:

• General help on Wikia
• MediaWiki Editor Handbook, the help pages for the software we're using
• WikiPedia help contents
• List of templates

[edit] For MediaWiki admins

• Configuration settings list
• MediaWiki FAQ
• MediaWiki release mailing list

[edit] Special tags and templates

[edit] Highlight Box

<div style="border:blue thin dashed;background-color:#e7e7e7;padding:5px;margin-left: 40px;">
This.
</div>

gives:

[edit] Signatures

Here's what I have changed my signature to in Preferences. It provides folks with a direct link to my Talk page to reply and so on (remove spaces in the nowiki tags):

< nowiki >< / nowiki >]]—[[User:iFaqeer|iFaqeer]] [[User talk:iFaqeer|(Talk to me!)

Example: —iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 13:32, 28 October 2005 (PDT)

[edit] Special characters

• There are handy lists at:

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp

and

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=HTML%20symbol%20reference

[edit] Further places to go

• MediaWiki Editor Handbook, the help pages for the software we're using
• WikiPedia help contents

• List of Templates