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<div style="background: #E4F0F7; padding: 5px; margin: 3px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; color: #033251; font-size: 120%;"><span style="font-size: 140%;">Community Portal</span>
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Need help, want something changed or want to debate about something? In the community portal you will find exactly what you need!
 
Need help, want something changed or want to debate about something? In the community portal you will find exactly what you need!
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{{fullurl|RimWorld Wiki:Community portal|action{{=}}watch|text=Add this page}} to your [[Special:Watchlist|watchlist]] and stay on top of things!</div>
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== New to wikis? ==
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* In case you need some help with editing pages, Wikipedia's "[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:How to edit a page|How to edit a page]]" article is a great source of information.
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* Transclusion: Some pages display text from another page by using a special markup to transclude it. Editing the text must be done on the page from which the text is transcluded.
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** For example, when editing the page Character Types you'll see <span style="font-family: monospace; font-size:130%; "><nowiki>{{:Colonist}}</nowiki></span> which is markup text that automatically copies text from the page <span style="font-family: monospace; font-size:130%; ">Colonist</span>.
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** To learn more about transclusions, see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Transclusion Wikipedia:Transclusion].
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== How to help out ==
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* '''[[Special:RecentChanges|Recent changes]]''' shows the latest page updates in this wiki and clicking on the (diff/hist) is the easiest way to learn common practices.
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* '''[[:Category:Article stubs|Stub]]''' articles, are pages in need of additional content, an easy way to get started.
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* When you get better, check the list of '''[[:Category:Page Rewrite|articles intended for rewrite]]''' and improve already filled pages that need better "noise-sound" ratio. Friendly readability and concise, structured writing.
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* Another helpful activity is to check '''[[Special:WantedPages|wanted pages]]''' list, frequently linked-to articles that don't exist yet and can be started from blank free of remarks.
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* Tag maintenance templates '''[[:Category:Templates]]''' or '''[[{{ns:project}}:Templates]]''' to pages that you think had been overlooked and need to be polished.
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* Upload and add some images! Visit '''[[Special:Upload]]'''. Add them <nowiki>[[</nowiki>[[:Category:Images]]<nowiki>]]</nowiki>.
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* Check for spelling and punctuation mistakes/errors.
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== Want to discuss stuff? ==
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* If you want to discuss anything specific to an article, you can use the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Talk_pages Discussion page] for that article.
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* For more general discussions you can use the Discussion tab of this page.
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== Announcements ==
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[[User_talk:Zesty#New_Moderators_583|New Moderators]]:
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* [[User:Jimyoda|Jimyoda]]
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* [[User:Yoshida Keiji|Yoshida Keiji]]
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* [[User:PigeonGuru|PigeonGuru]]
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{{fullurl|Terraria Wiki:Community portal|action{{=}}watch|text=Add this page}} to your [[Special:Watchlist|watchlist]] and stay on top of things!</div>
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We need editors who know how to "render" images. Currently missing a render of:
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* Chemfuel powered generator.
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* Psychoid pekoe (both single unit and stack)
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== Hot discussions ==
 
== Hot discussions ==
  
== Current wiki news ==
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* [[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|Community Portal]] - for general / site-wide discussion
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* [[{{TALKPAGENAME:Main_Page}}|Main page]] - talk about the main page, usually to suggest changes
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* [[RimWorld_Wiki_talk:Community_portal#Breakdown_.5B.5BTemplate:Nav.5D.5D_413|Templates need to be separated instead of all in one]]. Also some infoboxes are larger than the page content itself, they need to be short and simple instead, which is natural to wikis.
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== Things to do ==
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; Useful activities
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* Create links to some '''[[Special:LonelyPages|orphaned pages]]'''.
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* Fix any '''[[Special:DoubleRedirects|double redirects]]''' by redirecting the first page to the third page.
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* Check for '''[[Special:BrokenRedirects|broken redirects]]''' and either mark them for deletion or find a more appropriate target.
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* Consider splitting up very '''[[Special:LongPages|long pages]]''' into different pages or subpages.
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* Create some links on '''[[Special:DeadendPages|dead end pages]]'''.
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* ''Add more...''
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== Translation ==
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{{Warning|'''Note:''' The translation extension is disabled. Currently, we are more focused in cleaning up translation tags than adding translations.}}<br>
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* '''[[mediawikiwiki:Help:Extension:Translate/Translation_example|How to translate]]'''
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* '''[[mediawikiwiki:Help:Extension:Translate/Page_translation_example|How to prepare a page for translation]]'''
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* '''[[Special:LanguageStats|Language statistics]]''' - check it for updates. (For example enter ''ru'' lang code and you see all progress)
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* '''[[Special:Translate|Translation]]''' is available for all users.
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* Don't forget to '''[[Special:TranslatorSignup|signup]]''' for translation news. ([[User_talk:AcDie#Translation_notification:_Main_Page|example]])
  
 
== Other perennially useful pages ==
 
== Other perennially useful pages ==
* In case you need some help with editing pages, Wikipedia's "[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:How to edit a page|How to edit a page]]" article is a great source of information.
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* [[Templates|Templates]] | [http://rimworldwiki.com/glyphicons/ Glyphicons]
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[[Category:Help]]

Revision as of 16:08, 18 March 2018


Community Portal

Cassandra.png Need help, want something changed or want to debate about something? In the community portal you will find exactly what you need! Phoebe.png

Add this page to your watchlist and stay on top of things!

New to wikis?

  • In case you need some help with editing pages, Wikipedia's "How to edit a page" article is a great source of information.
  • Transclusion: Some pages display text from another page by using a special markup to transclude it. Editing the text must be done on the page from which the text is transcluded.
    • For example, when editing the page Character Types you'll see {{:Colonist}} which is markup text that automatically copies text from the page Colonist.
    • To learn more about transclusions, see Wikipedia:Transclusion.


How to help out

  • Recent changes shows the latest page updates in this wiki and clicking on the (diff/hist) is the easiest way to learn common practices.
  • Stub articles, are pages in need of additional content, an easy way to get started.
  • When you get better, check the list of articles intended for rewrite and improve already filled pages that need better "noise-sound" ratio. Friendly readability and concise, structured writing.
  • Another helpful activity is to check wanted pages list, frequently linked-to articles that don't exist yet and can be started from blank free of remarks.
  • Tag maintenance templates Category:Templates or RimWorld Wiki:Templates to pages that you think had been overlooked and need to be polished.
  • Upload and add some images! Visit Special:Upload. Add them [[Category:Images]].
  • Check for spelling and punctuation mistakes/errors.


Want to discuss stuff?

  • If you want to discuss anything specific to an article, you can use the Discussion page for that article.
  • For more general discussions you can use the Discussion tab of this page.


Announcements

New Moderators:


We need editors who know how to "render" images. Currently missing a render of:

  • Chemfuel powered generator.
  • Psychoid pekoe (both single unit and stack)


Hot discussions


Things to do

Useful activities

Translation

600px-Nuvola apps important.svg.png
Note: The translation extension is disabled. Currently, we are more focused in cleaning up translation tags than adding translations.


Other perennially useful pages