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==Introduction==
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Hello and welcome to the Discovery help section!
This wiki uses [http://www.mediawiki.org MediaWiki]. For a more detailed overview about editing please consult the [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing MediaWiki Handbook] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext_examples Wikitext example page].
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With the wiki getting older and older, we need your help to keep things up to date. With more then 3,000 articles it is hard to do it alone. So, do some thing to help the community!
  
==Editing basics==
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Q: Where can i help?
'''Opening the edit page'''
 
  
To start editing a page, click on the '''"Edit"''' link at the top of the article. You will come to a page with a textbox with the ''wikitext''  of the article.
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A: You can help all over the forum, but the main place to first get started is by helping the community and even the admins, by fixing, or updating:
  
'''Summarize your edits'''
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- [[:Category:Outdated|Outdated]]
  
Below the textbox, there's a field where you can summarize your edits.
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- [[:Category:Systems without descriptions|Systems Without Descriptions]]
  
'''Preview before saving'''
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- [[:Category:Systems without profile images|Systems Without Profile Images]]
  
Before saving your changes, it's a good idea to look how your changes will look. Repeat the process of edit/preview until your satisfied of the result, then click the '''"Save"'''-button and the changes will be made to the article.
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- [[:Category:Stubs|Incomplete Pages]]
  
==Wikitext - How to make the page look the way you want==
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- [[:Category:BadVersion|Bad Versions]]
===Basic text formatting===
 
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!What it looks like
 
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|You can ''italicize text'' by putting two apostrophes on each side.
 
  
Three apostrophes will '''bold the text'''.
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- [[:Category:Pages without profile images|Pages Without Profile Images]]
  
Five apostrophes will '''bold''' and ''italicize'' '''''the text'''''.
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- [[:Category:Factions without profile images|Factions Without Profile Images]]
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You can ''italicize text'' by putting two apostrophes on each side.
 
  
Three apostrophes will '''bold the text'''.
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- [[:Category:Reviews missing valid mod version numbers|Reviews Missing Valid Mod Version Numbers]]
  
Five apostrophes will '''bold''' and ''italicize'' '''''the text'''''.
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And even more! So the best thing you can do is to go surfing the wiki!
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Q: How do I contact the GC discovery support?
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A: You can reach them at info@discoverygc.com
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Need any other help? And if you can, donate knowledge to this section!
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- [[:Category:Help|Help]]
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'''If you can contribute to, then do so!'''
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Oh but please note, any page that has the following [[templates]] or any page that is not in the game any longer we'd like to keep untouched or labelled, because these are important to the history of the Discovery mod.
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{{Historical|Example}}

Latest revision as of 14:45, 20 February 2013

Hello and welcome to the Discovery help section! With the wiki getting older and older, we need your help to keep things up to date. With more then 3,000 articles it is hard to do it alone. So, do some thing to help the community!

Q: Where can i help?

A: You can help all over the forum, but the main place to first get started is by helping the community and even the admins, by fixing, or updating:

- Outdated

- Systems Without Descriptions

- Systems Without Profile Images

- Incomplete Pages

- Bad Versions

- Pages Without Profile Images

- Factions Without Profile Images

- Reviews Missing Valid Mod Version Numbers


And even more! So the best thing you can do is to go surfing the wiki!

Q: How do I contact the GC discovery support?

A: You can reach them at info@discoverygc.com

Need any other help? And if you can, donate knowledge to this section!

- Help

If you can contribute to, then do so!

Oh but please note, any page that has the following templates or any page that is not in the game any longer we'd like to keep untouched or labelled, because these are important to the history of the Discovery mod.


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This page has been retired but kept for historical or other reasons, The information on this page may be incorrect, out of date or just not relevant to this version of Discovery. It should not be taken as canon nor any authority on the current version of Discovery. It is kept simply to show some history of the Discovery Mod:
Example

See also:

What Links HerePage HistoryHistorical Articles