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Welcome to the wiki! The Community Portal is where this wiki community comes together to organize and discuss projects for the wiki. To see the most recent discussions, click the Discussion tab above.

You can find out more general information about the wiki on the About page.

New to wikis?

If you are new to wikis, you may want to read the tutorial on the Central Wikia.
A list of all help pages can be found in Category:Help.

How to help

If you want to help but you're not sure where to start, try improving the various stub articles by adding content.
Another helpful activity would be to check the list of wanted pages for frequently linked-to articles that don't exist yet.
You can find a list of useful templates on Category:Templates.
If you need help editing, you could start with Help:Editing or the tutorial on the Central Wikia.

How to discuss stuff

If you want to discuss anything specific to an article, you can use the talk pages for that article
For more general discussions you can use the Discussion tab of this page.

Things to do

Useful activities

Help expand some article stubs.
Locate and mark pages that need expanding as article stubs.
Create links to some orphaned pages.
Upload and add some images! Visit Special:Upload. Add them to a category too, like [[Category:Images]].
Write a new article that's on the the wanted list!
Consider splitting up very long pages.
Create some links on dead end pages.
Add more...

Other useful special pages

Special:BrokenRedirects
Special:DoubleRedirects
Special:Uncategorizedcategories
Special:Uncategorizedimages
Special:Uncategorizedpages
Special:Unusedimages
Special:Wantedcategories
Check out the full list of special pages at Special:Specialpages.

Ten article stubs to expand:

<DynamicPageList> category = Stubs randomcount = 10 </DynamicPageList>

Last ten article edits:

<DynamicPageList> namespace = ordermethod = lastedit count = 10 order = descending </DynamicPageList>

These lists dynamically change - refresh me!

Interesting pages

Want to find out what you've done so far? Visit [[Special:Contributions/YourName]]
Find out more about the wiki on Special:Statistics and Special:Version!

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 == New to wikis? ==
 * If you are new to wikis, you may want to read the '''[[Wikia:Help:Tutorial 1|tutorial]]''' on the Central Wikia.
-* There is some advice on getting this wiki started at '''[[Help:Starting this wiki]]'''.
 * A list of all help pages can be found in '''[[:Category:Help]]'''.
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 * If you want to help but you're not sure where to start, try improving the various '''[[:Category:Stubs|stub]]''' articles by adding content.
 * Another helpful activity would be to check the list of '''[[Special:Wantedpages|wanted pages]]''' for frequently linked-to articles that don't exist yet.
-* You can find a list of useful templates on '''[[:Category:Templates]]''', some of which are documented on '''[[Project:Templates]]'''.
+* You can find a list of useful templates on '''[[:Category:Templates]]'''.
-* A style guide for this wiki can be found on '''[[Project:Manual of Style]]'''.
 * If you need help editing, you could start with '''[[Help:Editing]]''' or '''[[Wikia:Help:Tutorial 1|the tutorial]] on the Central Wikia'''.
 == How to discuss stuff ==
-* If you want to discuss anything specific to an article, you can use '''[[Help:Talk page|the talk pages]]''' for that article
+* If you want to discuss anything specific to an article, you can use '''the talk pages''' for that article
 * For more general discussions you can use the Discussion tab of this page.
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 [[Category:Help|Community Portal]]
-[[Category:Community]]