How to help

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There are many ways that you can help the ScheduleWorld community! This page tries to help new users understand what needs to be done and how they can help improve the wiki.

If you need immediate high level help, consider contacting one of the ScheduleWorld:Administrators (by leaving a comment on their talk page).

[edit] Welcome to ScheduleWorld!

Welcome to the ScheduleWorld Wiki. The aim of this site is to comprehensively document everything in ScheduleWorld, both the details of using ScheduleWorld and also configuring and using anything that can connect with ScheduleWorld. Not only this but we aim to do so in a professional manner, providing pleasant, standardized formats for each type of page.

[edit] Get Credit

Before you dive into making changes to the site, consider Creating an account. This will add you to the user list and will mean you get credit for any contributions that you make. If you don't create an account then you can still edit and create new pages, but you will be identified by your IP address.

[edit] Learn the wikicode

Wikis use code that is different (and much easier) than normal HTML. Check out this page to see how the wikicode works.

[edit] Wanted Pages

See the Wanted Pages for a list of linked-to-but-not-yet-written pages (ordered from most-linked-to to least).

[edit] Contribute to Research

The Research needed category lists issues that need research.

[edit] Quality Control

One of the strengths of wiki is its iterative design process. A stub will be written, and someone will come and add a paragraph, and someone else will add something more, and so on. A side effect of this can be somewhat inconsistent article quality.

Pages that are way "below the bar" are listed in the Cleanup category. These pages have useful information, but are grammatically incorrect, written from the first-person perspective, or violate the Style & Formatting guide in some other way. Acting as a copy editor and fixing these articles is a great way to meaningfully contribute to ScheduleWorld.

[edit] Watching the Wiki

The Recent changes page shows a list of all the changes that have been made to the site. Have a look at the list to see if anything interesting is going on. Alternatively, if you are logged in you can add pages to your Watchlist by clicking the 'Watch' link at the top of an article. The Watchlist is like your own Recent Changes page, showing only those pages that interest you. This is useful for keeping up with certain sections of the wiki that you are interested in.

[edit] Get Involved

There are discussions going on all the time about the Wiki, and your input is always of value. Clicking on the discussion link at the top of an article will take you to a discussion page for that article. There may already be discussions taking place that you can contribute on, or you can start your own discussion on the relevant page and someone will hopefully notice it in the Recent Changes list. Remember to sign your comments on the discussion page so contributers will know who they are responding to!

Also, spread the word! This Wiki grows as a resource due to the contributions of users like you, and they have to find the site somehow. Post on the message boards you frequent (But please- no spamming of our URL. That doesn't just annoy people, it makes us all look bad), add our URL to your signature, or link to us from your website.

[edit] More?

For more information, visit the Helping out category. It contains a list of useful pages for new contributers to this wiki.