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Gamepedia Help Wiki
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Getting started
Welcome to the Gamepedia Help Wiki! The following help section is created and edited by wiki users, just like the rest of the wikis. To create an account, select "Sign in" (found on the bar -
Contents
Reading[] Navigation, Searching, Tracking changes, Watchlist Editing[] Getting started, Editing pages, Starting a new page, Basic Images, Basic tables, Templates, Formatting, Links, User page, Talk pages, Signatures -
How to contact Fandom
Fandom only hosts game wikis - we are not game developers! If you are experiencing issues with a specific game, please visit the game's official website to contact support. Need help? The Fandom staff is -
What is Hydra
Hydra is the custom technology that powered the Gamepedia wiki farm until the fall of 2020. Named for the legendary Greek monster, Hydra takes its name from the monster's ability to grow many heads -
Extension:Cargo
Cargo is an extension that lets pages on the wiki talk to each other. Imagine having a spreadsheet with data about your game that has a bunch of pages. One sheet talks about items. Another -
Extension:DPL3/Parameters: Controlling output volume
Furthermore, you can add a heading if there are some articles to display. And you can define an alternate text which will be shown if there are no articles to display. -
Extension:DPL3/Parameters: Criteria for page selection
Syntax: category=1st category name|2nd category name|3rd category name|... or category=1st category name&2nd category name&3rd category name&... or category=_none_ -
Extension:DPL3/Parameters: Controlling output format
You can select one of several default formats or define your own format (mode=userformat); output can be grouped in columns or rows. In the examples that follow, the DPL output has been kept small -
Extensions
For information on requesting extensions on a specific wiki, see Requesting extensions. These extensions are in use by various wikis on Gamepedia. Default extensions load for all wikis., Allowed extensions can be set to load -
Magic words
Magic words are strings of text that MediaWiki associates with a return value or function, such as time, site details, or page names. This page is about usage of standard magic words; for a technical -
Extension:Scribunto
Scribunto is an extension that allows scripting languages to be used within MediaWiki. Without Scribunto, editors would need to try to use wikitext as a scripting language, which results in poor performance and unreadable code -
Translation guidelines
We now have mechanisms in place to allow our community to not only create wikis in languages other than English, but also to help us translate all of Gamepedia to as many languages as possible -
Extension:ParserPower/List handling functions
The most powerful feature of ParserPower is its ability to manipulate lists separated by a common delimiter. While this is a useful feature in general, this makes ParserPower a great companion to extensions such as -
User groups and permissions
The way permissions are set-up on different wikis can vary, but the default MediaWiki installation has several different permissions available. Most notable are sysop and bureaucrat permissions, and here at Gamepedia, we have an -
Extension:DPL3/Manual
DynamicPageList3 (DPL/DPL3) is a powerful MediaWiki extension that can generate lists of pages, and/or certain data and statistics gathered from them, for display in a wiki page. DPL lists are automatically updated whenever -
Administrators guide
If you are reading this, you are probably a newly-appointed administrator on a Gamepedia wiki. If so, congratulations! You have been granted an additional set of permissions to help you make your wiki a -
Extension:DPL3/General usage and invocation syntax
DynamicPageList3 (DPL3) can be used as a parser extension (DPL..../DPL) or as a parser function ({{#dpl:....}}). There is no general rule which one is better. If in doubt, you may want to use the -
The Future of Gamepedia
Update (March 4th): Remaining Gamepedia wikis are beginning their migrations soon. Today, we have a big announcement. After nearly two years of working together to bring Fandom and Gamepedia wikis onto one platform, we will -
Links
To add an internal link, enclose the name of the page you want to link to in double square brackets. When you save the page, you'll see the new link pointing to your page -
Blocking users
Blocking users is an action that Gamepedia staff, wiki guardians and administrators, or members of GRASP can perform upon users or IP addresses to prevent them from editing the wiki. To unblock a username or -
Categories
Categories are a software feature of MediaWiki. They provide automatic indexes that can be useful as tables of contents for browsing, and for automated edits. You can and should categorize pages and files by adding -
References
References or footnotes can be used within an article to cite sources, provide tangential information and commentary, or provide other explanatory information. They rely on the Cite extension and will automatically generate a list of -
Styling the sidebar
The page provides a guide to styling the wiki sidebar and logo area. Some wikis may wish to re-style this area page to better match the wiki's skin. An important note about styling -
Formatting
You can format your text by using wiki markup. This consists of normal characters like asterisks, apostrophes or equal signs which have a special function in the wiki, sometimes depending on their position. For example
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