Guide to contributing to the wiki: Difference between revisions

We're happy you've shown interest in contributing to the wiki, we welcome all editors and assume good faith for all edits made, so there are very few protected pages. Don't be afraid to jump in and start correcting and adding to pages.

 

This is a quick guide to how you can help.

New content is constantly being added to ss13 which needs tutorials and such. Before you start to write a page, search for it and if you can't find it, start one yourself. We welcome all contributions to the wiki and trust all edits to be made in good faith. As a recommendation if you wish to work on a page uninterrupted and not worry about other users edits while working, make it in your personal [[Special:MyPage/Sandbox|sandbox]] area or anywhere in your own pages. If you don't know wikicode, you can create a unformatted page and ask someone else to format it for you.

Some pages are intended to be entertaining but when writing guides, remember that a newbie might not realize something is a joke or sarcasm, even if it's blatantly obvious to the rest of us. Think where jokes fit and where they don't. Also, if you're updating someone else's joke, think whether yours is actually funnier.

A bad guide is one that's a giant wall of text that's overly fluffed up and full of opinionated bullshit.<br>

[At the moment]{{citation needed}} [[Guides#Security guides|Security's guides]] are good. [[Space Law]] is unfluffed and tells plainly the basics of what a [[security officer]] needs to know to start patrolling and robusting greyshirts. The [[Guide to security]] is more fleshed out and explains things more in depth and lists strategies to counter antags.<br>

[[Cult]], [[Malf]], and [[Traitor]] are bad because they're giant imposing walls of text that reads like a newspaper: squished up text that obscures the facts with needless opinions and blurbs that you don't need to know off the bat.