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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.

Contents 1 New to wikis? 2 How to help out 2.1 Wiki goals 3 Want to discuss stuff? 4 Things to do 5 Some other interesting pages

[edit] New to wikis?

• If you are new to wikis, you may want to read the tutorial on the Central Wikia.
• There is some advice on getting this wiki started at Help:Starting this wiki.
• A list of most help pages can be found in Category:Help.

[edit] How to help out

• 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.
• To follow the changes to this wiki, and to look out for new users and edits use recent changes.
• You can find a list of useful templates on Category:Templates, some of which are documented on Project:Templates.
• If you need help editing, you could start with Help:Editing or the tutorial on the Central Wikia.

[edit] Wiki goals

1. Create (start) at least 100 articles in the first two weeks (by May 23rd 2008).

   Achieved early on the 18th.

2. Get at least five new contributors to change or start an article by the end of June.

   Missed.  :-( New target date: July 31.

   Missed again.

   Met.

3. Develop at least 100 articles to the point where they are no longer stubs by the end of July.

   Met, but not sure when.

4. Create (start) at least 365 articles by May 2009. (That would be an average of over 1 page/day.)

   Met. As of April 27th, we have 367 articles; many are stubs.

5. Develop at least 300 articles to the point where they aren't stubs before 2010.

   To not be a stub, the article should have substantial information about the topic. It doesn't need to be complete, but it should have the major topics at least identified. A non-stub article can still be short.

[edit] Want to discuss stuff?

• If you want to discuss anything specific to an article, you can use the talk page for that article.
• For more general discussions you can use the Discussion tab of this page, or a Forum if the forums have been set up.

[edit] 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:ProblemReports Special:Uncategorizedcategories Special:Uncategorizedimages Special:Uncategorizedpages Special:Unusedimages Special:Wantedcategories Check out the full list of special pages at Special:Specialpages.

[edit] Some other interesting pages

• Want to find out what you've done so far? Visit Special:Mycontributions.
• Find out more about the wiki on Special:Statistics and Special:Version!