What can I do to help

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Help Section

How to start contributing to the project.

Advanced Formatting

Wiki Tutorials

A wiki is essentially a website that anyone with a registered account can edit. By clicking on the edit tab at the top of any page, you can edit its contents.

What you can do

Edit and Add-to

  • Already existing articles may need lots of work or tweaks here and there. This is particularly true of some pages with poor formatting or spelling.
  • Text editing is easy to do, just add whatever you like, as long as it's clean.
  • We can correct any mistakes so don't worry about 'destroying' anything!
  • If you want any help editing, look at editing help and the editing guidelines.

Make 'Stubs'

  • Click on red links or search for a page name that doesn't exist to start editing a new page.
  • Making very short articles stimulates people to edit the text, which helps grow the content of the website. However, articles which contain content of the same quality as 'OMG they r fit!!!one!!!"""!11!' are just going to get deleted, so try to put something worthwhile there!
  • Never put placeholders like under construction, as the whole site is technically always under construction, so it is redundant.

Format Content

  • If you're familiar with the codes to make an article look nice then by all means go ahead and make it look pretty.
  • There is a good resource for editing on the MediaWiki website.

Add pages to the frontpage

  • If you can think of something to add to the main page please suggest it in the Community Portal so a moderator can look into it.

Recent Changes

  • You can patrol Recent Changes to augment any new additions or correct any mistakes.

Become a friend of the BRGS Wiki

  • The BRGS Wiki is now on MySpace. Feel free to add us to your friend list and help spread the word.

Anything else you like

  • Perhaps you can think of a gallery that'd look cool - you can make one here.
  • Start up a news service on current events.
  • Start a podcast, like the assembly podcast.
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