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Offline Fozzy

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Can I help In any way?
Can I help In any way with the wiki just give me things to do and i will se what i can do....
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Offline Wanderer

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Lots of...

Like changing all ships pages into using templates etc.

But if you see any articles that you feel you could contribute to feel free to start writing. Or then start writing totally new article if you think there is a need for one.
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Thanks for the enthusiasism, Fozzy. I remember asking the same question a while ago and getting a similar reply- there's really not a whole lot to do. The Wiki is pretty thorough as it is. There's a lot of template work to be done, for example, but you can find something more interesting to do. Personally I prefer that people would keep the templates the way they are, but meh.

If you look at the recent changes page, you'll see that Shade is converting all the ship articles to a new template. See what he's doing and help him out, if you want.

One part of the Wiki that never really got off the ground are the user-made campaign mission walkthroughs. Here is the campaign walkthrough for Derelict. If you're ever playing a campaign and you feel in the mood to help the wiki, make a mission walkthrough for it.

Another way you could help is by simply browsing articles and correcting grammar mistakes. FSWiki has many "Engrish" articles.

Everything I've mentioned is pretty much make-work; the Wiki is pretty polished as it is(unless you're a grammarian), and nothing really critical has to be done. But again, thank you for wanting to help.

 

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Yeah, campaign walkthroughs are a bit of a sore spot on the wiki at the moment. And even the walkthrough for the retail campaign could use an update for some of the missions. Help with the templates would always be nice, but frankly, it would be wasted on that kind of enthusiasm... in fact, it's boring enough that it would probably kill that enthusiasm, so better leave it alone at first or at least only do a couple at a time so you don't get too mind-numbingly bored.

Another way to help out is to look at the Wanted Pages article. This automatically lists all "missing" pages on the wiki (a "missing" page being one that is linked to, but not written yet - A red link), ordered by the number of times they are linked to. Now, far from all of those are actually needed, as some are linked to from obsolete or dead pages, but many are also linked from rather prominent places and should definitely be created at some point for completeness' sake.
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Does that mean i can do a Babylon 5 walkthrough, just downloaded it.

a wiki/note on all campaigns without walkthroughs will be usefull
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That would be a good idea.

Everything you do for the Wiki is on your own initiative. Don't ask "what can I do to help?" As long as you don't screw anything up, any contribution is a welcome contribution.

And there are campaign pages in the FS1 and FS2 portals, although not all campaigns are included (simply because everyone's been to lazy to put more in, including major campaigns like PI).