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This page is a manually updated list of help pages. This page contains a listing of all the help pages under each of the six major sections, a description of the information you can find on that page, and what needs to be done to improve that page. There is also a separate section for the help pages which are not directly linked to in one of the major sections. The purpose of this page is to provide a quick index for readers looking for help on a specific topic. It is also used by the Help Team to keep track of the state of the help spection of WoWWiki. If you would like to view all pages that are categorized as help, view the help cateogry. You can also look at all the pages in the help namespace. If you are particularly frustrated with the help pages or having problems finding information that can't be summed up in a simple question, please contact the Help Team and leave your comments with them.

Contents 1 Getting Started 2 New to WoWWiki 3 Editing WoWWiki 4 Editing WoWWiki - Advanced 5 Additional Help 6 The WoWWiki community 7 Other Help Pages

Getting StartedEdit

WoWWiki:Policies 

The contents of all the official policies which are in effect on WoWWiki.

WoWWiki:Searching 

Page explaining how to find articles on WoWWiki.
To Do:

• These Two articles need to be merged
• The merged article will need to undergo some serious clean up
• Add sections about finding articles based on the naming rules

Help:Special page 

An article explaining what special pages are and what they do.
To Do:

• Needs to be cleaned up and made specific to WoWWiki

Help:What links here 

Information about the What links here special page.
To Do:

• Needs some clean up

Help:Talk page 

Information about talk pages.
To Do:

• Needs to be cleaned up and made WoWWiki Specific
• Could likely be expanded to include more information

WoWWiki:FAQ 

Frequently Asked Questions about WoWWiki.
To Do:

• Old, outdated and FAQ section is currently a mess

New to WoWWikiEdit

To Do:

• Find or create help articles that will be quick guides to get semi-experiences users up to speed with WoWWiki

Help:Differences between WoWWiki and Wikipedia 

A guide that provides an overview of the major differences editors and readers should be aware of if their previous Wiki experience is Wikipedia (or wikis with similar styles, policies and guidelines).
To Do:

• This article needs to be created.

Editing WoWWikiEdit

Help:Editing 

The essential guide that provides a large overview on most things you will do with the wiki.
To Do:

• Needs to be updated to reflect the proper help guides as well as some minor corrections.
• Lots of link fixes, adding the right template and general cleanup.

Help:Edit summary 

An article explaining what the edit summary is and how to properly use it.

Help:Starting a new page 

An Article that explains how to start a new page about a variety of topics.
To Do:

• Linked articles explaining how to to create specific types of pages needs to be written

Help:Link 

An article explaining the different types of links and how to properly use them.
To Do:

• Clean up article.

Help:Interwiki linking 

Provides detailed information about interwiki links.
To Do:

• Needs to be cleaned up
• Needs to be merged with WoWWiki:Interwiki linking

Help:Piped link 

Specific information about using piped links.
To Do:

• Needs to be cleaned up
• Could possibly be merged with one of the other link articles

Help:Self link 

What a self link is.
To Do:

• Probably can just be redirected to the section in Help:link, not a lot of information

WoWWiki:How to edit a page 

Quick guide to editing a page.
To Do:

• Can probably be expanded
• Should probably be moved to the help namespace

Help:Images and other uploaded files 

Information on using images and uploading files.
To Do:

• Badly needs to be cleaned up

Help:Navigational image 

How to create a navigational image.
To Do:

• Needs to be cleaned up
• Needs to have the information presented on it verified and tested.

Help:Edit toolbar 

Using the edit toolbar.
To Do:

• Information needs to be made WoWWiki specific and cleaned up

Help:HTML in wikitext 

How to use HTML in the wiki.
To Do:

• Needs to be cleaned up
• Probably should have the information tested and verified

Editing WoWWiki - AdvancedEdit

Help:Table 

Information on the different ways of creating tables in WoWWiki.
To Do:

• Needs to be cleaned up

Help:Disambiguation 

How to create a disambiguation page.

Help:Redirect 

How to use redirects.
To Do:

• Needs to be cleaned up

Help:Template 

An article on how to use and create templates.

Help:Variable 

Explains what variables are available to be used.
To Do:

• Needs some clean up

Help:Renaming (moving) a page 

Information on how to move/rename a page.
To Do:

• Needs to be cleaned up

Additional HelpEdit

To Do:

• This section contains links to the help team and reference desk. Needs to be improved with more information.

The WoWWiki communityEdit

To Do:

• This section links to the community portal and Where to ask a question, needs to be improved with more information.

Other Help PagesEdit

Help:Edit summary legend 

Provides a quick reference to abbreviations in the edit summary.

• Linked to from the edit summary page.

Help:Editing_quickref 

A quick reference sheet that provides easy to access information about hard to remember procedures.

• Linked from Help:Contents
  To Do:
• Add obvious link to it from Help:Editing

Help:Automatic conversion of wikitext 

The conversion of wikitext, like in signatures.
To Do:

• Figure out where to put it.
• Some information may not be applicable to WoWWiki

Help:Category 

Information about using categories.
To Do:

• Should be sorted and go with Editing level 1.

Help:Deleting_pages 

Explains how to delete pages.
To Do:

• Put it in one of the above categories.

Help:Voting 

An article explaining how to vote.
To Do:

• Categorize.

Help:Terminating pages 

An article explaining how to terminate pages.
To Do:

• Categorize.