Draft Help:Contents

This is just a draft, (extremely rough as yet), to help with redesign of Help:Contents

Getting started
If you're new you might want to start here. If you're looking for help with editing you might want to go straight to that section. Have a good look round. Get a feel for the many possibilities a wiki such as this offers. For example explore some of the links on our Community Portal (see Tim's page, wc help tutuorial )

Some general tips Logging in see also ec h creat an acct? wch ? prefs? Other sources of help (link to FAQ etc) see also wch wiki tips?
 * wikis not static, (unlike many ordinary websites) always a work in progress, always evolving, some sections will look less developed than others,etc.
 * stub
 * quick notes
 * how to start a new page, search before create See also wch new page?
 * how to use wiki markup, what is wiki markup? (ege Dr who help?)
 * tracking changes

Help editing
(refer to, plus merge with example) if your'e looking for help editing


 * link to editing help on each edit page for each article, (or go direct from here) / merge with eg? but like clarity of what's here?

Getting started on editing
One option is to Play in the Sandbox so's you get practised at getting your edits to come out as you want them. Then have a go at editing any of the other pages using the help editing section below to refer to, or calling up the separate help edting page (which contains the same info) from the 'edit this page' version of other articles.
 * note re tabbed browsers
 * editing - more on the basics?
 * Sandbox, wch sandb?
 * more advanced editing
 * templates
 * category draft
 * note re editing main page, other protected pages

see also: wc:Help:Interwiki link, show preview? help table? wch images, image c tags? wch uploading files?

For the most comprehensive Help information on all aspects of exploring and editing wikicities pages, see the central Wikicities Help section.

Contributing
(at moment CP though eve separate article) How you can help / contributing
 * summary of ways, duplicates or summarises CP? e.g editing, collaborating, etc. overall structure, etc. / promo wch prom?
 * notes re Wikipedia content

Browsing SCA wiki
(separate article) see also?- relationships to other wikis, wch nav
 * introduction to getting around / navigating / exploring sca wiki
 * main sections
 * categories
 * other navs, side bar, specila pages? see also wc h spec?
 * Namespaces
 * Tracking changes, wch? watchlist?
 * Fun stuff

About SCA wiki

 * link to about from bottom of every page or direct from here
 * more about - via exploring, policies, etc.

Account settings and maintenance / about signing in / types of accounts?
 * signatures see also wc help signs? seeo wc h user acce levs?

The SCA community Village Green, village pump link to FAQs espe re eg spam and vandalism
 * CP
 * link to more about
 * link to policies, etc
 * link to comms

Guidelines, Conventions and policies
 * cat policies, (check what pages exist, what wanted)
 * manual of style
 * image use guidelines
 * likely to be wanted pages, trying to keep policies to minimum

Communications wc h report a prob?
 * asking questions, asking for help, announcements
 * communicating with individual users
 * relationships to other wikis

FAQs and other help
(links to other articles maybe ev separte article) see also wch FAQs?
 * using Talk:cp to ask for help
 * other help
 * (repeat links to all below)

other help

Other kinds of help - SCA wiki
For other kinds of Help to do with the SCA wiki see Boundaries, Behavioural guidelines, Values,  Guidelines for including Projects, External links policy,  About Sustainable Community Action, and  Contact Us

Other help - Wikicities
Wikicities Help tutotrial, Wikicities Glossary

How do I do that?
HOWTOs

other sources
Why_create_an_account?, Tutorial, wikipedia:Help:Contents,  MediaWiki Handbook
 * other SCA
 * other wikicities
 * other such as wikipedia, mediawiki, etc

glossary see also wchgloss - use for tip of the day?

Technical help

Community support

notes re wikipedia content

spam see also wcc h spam?

vandalism, help blocking

analogies / Cityscape