Team Fortress Wiki:New Users' Guide

The Team Fortress Wiki is the largest resource of information on Team Fortress 2 and Team Fortress Classic, editable by anyone.

This page is aimed at the newest users primarily, however, older users who don't edit frequently will find it handy also.

Introduction

As the TF Wiki is a community-edited resource, it is the responsibility of the community to update and add to its content.

Guide

Editing

There are two ways to start editing a particular page; you can edit the whole page at once by clicking the "edit" tab at the top, or edit individual sections only by clicking "[edit]" to the right of the section header.

Editing brings up a large text box filled with wiki formatting, which forms all pages. Wiki formatting can be daunting at first, however, is easy to remember once picked up. Below is an example of the most common forms that are used in articles:

This text is '''bold''' and this is ''italic''. This is a link: [[Rocket Launcher]]. [[Rocket Launcher|This is also a link]]. [http://www.google.com I am an external link]. [[w:Team Fortress 2|I am a link to a Wikipedia article]].

And it displays as:

This text is bold and this is italic. This is a link: Rocket Launcher. This is also a link. I am an external link. I am a link to a Wikipedia article.

Language translation

Main article: Help:Language translation

The TF Wiki supports translation of articles into 22 languages, the majority of which are supported by in-game localizations. A full guide is available at Help:Language translation.

Making changes

All Wiki articles can be changed, updated, or added to, save for notable persons articles, which are locked from non-Staff edits as a beholdenment to the project policy.

Tips

Use the Show preview button to revise your changes before submission. This way, you can iron out any mistakes on the page and minimise the number of edits issued to the edit log.

Articles and images no longer useful to the Wiki should be marked with {{delete|reason here}} at the top of their respective pages; keep in mind that only Moderators can act on deletion reports. As a rule of thumb, image insertions and a page's links included in other articles are required to be removed before adding the deletion marker—this includes all the translated pages.

Where to go for help

Our most active editors are almost always present in our IRC channel #tfwiki (webchat) on the Libera Chat IRC network.

Articles and images no longer useful to the Wiki should be marked with :

at the top of their respective pages; only moderators have the ability to act on deletion reports. As a rule of thumb, content links and uploads require their content to be removed from the relevant pages they're included in before adding the descriptor.

See also

• Help:Contents – main help page

External links

Helpful guidelines from Wikipedia

• Wikipedia:Be bold – if you see something that can be improved, improve it.
• Wikipedia:Assume good faith – always assume that new users are editing to make the wiki better.
• Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers