StrategyWiki:Guide

W elcome to StrategyWiki, a collaborative wiki which seeks to become the largest source for free video game strategy guides. As a wiki, everyone is encourage to register and contribute to the compendium. To lead you in the right direction though, you may want to read up on some of the basics of StrategyWiki and wikis in general. Luckily, such information is contained within this guide and its related pages.

The Basics
StrategyWiki pages are made up of text. Such text comes three forms: plain text, such as what you are reading now, code (HTML/CSS), and wikitext (wiki mark-up). If you take a look at the source that makes up this page (go ahead and click edit at the top), you'll see instances of plain text and wikitext (the brackets, braces, equal signs and other symbols).

Wikitext serves to reduce the time it takes for contributors to write pages, reduce the file size of a page, and make editing a page more simple than using a combination of HTML and CSS. A list of wikitext symbols can be found at this page.

Editing a page is quite simple: just click edit at the top of a page, make a change, and click save at the bottom (you must be registered and logged in to be able to do this). Voila! Don't be afraid to make changes, as they can always be reverted, but please take your time to make your contributions as error-free as possible. Fewer edits leads to less work by other people and yourself, and will reduce the history of pages that gets saved within StrategyWiki.

What are histories? StrategyWiki, like all wikis, keeps a record of histories so that page changes can be documented for legal, content and mishap purposes. It allows users to see who added what, what content has been removed, and what errors have been made and corrected at what time; see for yourself: click History at the top of this page and take a look at the various edits that were applied. A copy of each page is saved, so even if one were to delete this entire page, it could be revived with a few clicks.

User Privileges
Registered users are allowed to edit any page that is not locked. They are encouraged to participate beyond contributions by voting and raising their voices towards community issues, such as within the Community Portal or even between individual users, in order to make StrategyWiki better.

Users are also allowed to upload images in the hopes of enhancing an article with its use. Please note that copyrighted images are not to be used, although fair use of an image (for example the cover of a box or cd) is allowed. Please do not upload images that you yourself cannot take credit for or have not been given explicit permission to do so (it will be removed eventually). Be smart and don't upload images unrelated to StrategyWiki. When uploading an image, be sure to explain what it is in general and to categorize it under one or two of the image categories.