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From Halopedia, the Halo wiki
The User Manual is a guide for users in relation to their wiki-experience in Halopedia. It provides guidance on how to navigate around the wiki and how to edit the wiki effectively. For users new to the wiki-experience, it may look like a daunting and complex task. But don't worry, this guide is here to help explain in the most straightforward way possible!
Disclaimer
First off, welcome to Halopedia! We hope that you've enjoyed reading the articles in this wiki. Hopefully you will stay around in this community and contribute to the wiki. As one once said, "the more, the merrier."
This guide is designed to educate users new to the wiki-editing experience, giving the best tips on how to write articles and the tricks of creating and mending the technical aspects of wiki-editing. Do not worry, not much mumbo-jumbo and technical jargon will be used in this guide. As per the opening paragraph, this guide will try to explain the ropes of editing in the msot straightforward way possible.
Like virtually all public wikis, every user can make alterations to the content in any articles and further improve them immediately for all readers.[note 1]
The wiki is powered by MediaWiki. This essentially means that this wiki operates the same way as Wikipedia does. The way MediaWiki system works is by recording, archiving and storing all activities in a series of logs. This makes the wiki very transparent as this system allows anyone to inspect, compare and see changes made to any webpage.
The sidebar serves as the wiki's main navigation tool, and is available in every webpage you click. Another way to navigate around the site is by entering keywords into the search box (location differs depending on which wiki skin/theme you use).
This wiki has particular types of pages not necessarily considered as an "article" such as disambiguation pages and templates. They are used to improve site navigation by linking the current article to other related articles.
Becoming an editor
- Main articles: Project:Manual of Style, Project:Layout guide
Know your rights
First and foremost, this wiki recognises the process of democracy but is not one of it.[note 2] While a proposal must be approved by a greater majority, it must also take legitimate concerns and issues into consideration. Similarly, the wiki recognises that freedom of speech is a protected right but such right will always be subjected to the wiki's policies.
The wiki actively records, archives, and stores activities in a collection of logs. Unless the contribution is in violation of one of the wiki's policies and/or the United States copyright laws, the contribution is readily available for anyone to view and access. For more, see the wiki's copyright policy.
Notes
- ^ The only exception to this would be protected content such as high-traffic articles leading to edit-wars and those frequently vandalised by users and/or spambots.
- ^ For more, see FAQ: Halopedia is not a democracy?