Changes: Xenopedia:Community Portal

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CommunityPortalPic — Welcome to the Community Portal!

Welcome to Xenopedia!

The Xenopedia Community Portal is where this wiki community comes together to organize and discuss projects for the wiki. To see the most recent discussions, click the Talk button above.

You can find out more general information about the wiki on the About page.

New to Wikis?

If you are new to wikis, you may want to read Help:Editing.
A list of most help pages can be found on Help:Contents and in Category:Help.

How to Help Out

If you want to help but you're not sure where to start, try improving the various stub articles by adding content.
Another helpful activity would be to check the list of wanted pages for frequently linked-to articles that don't exist yet.
To follow the changes to this wiki, and to look out for new users and edits use recent changes.
You can find a list of useful templates on Category:Templates, the most common of which are documented on Xenopedia:Templates.
If you need help editing, you could start with Help:Editing or the tutorial.

Want to Discuss Stuff?

If you want to discuss anything specific to an article, you can use the talk page for that article.
For more general discussions you can use the Discussion tab on this page, or post in the Forum.

Things to Do

Useful activities

Fix code in Template:App (requires unlocking), or create a replacement template. Code can be played with in this user template sandbox.
Improve layout, grammar and spelling.
Help expand some article stubs.
Locate and mark pages that need expanding as article stubs.
Create links to some orphaned pages.
Upload and add some images! Visit Special:Upload. Add them to a category too, like [[Category:Images]].
Write a new article that's on the the wanted list!
Fix any double redirects by redirecting the first page to the third page.
Check for broken redirects and either mark them for deletion or find a more appropriate target.
Consider splitting up very long pages into different pages or subpages.
Create some links on dead end pages.

Add more...

Other useful special pages

Special:BrokenRedirects
Special:DoubleRedirects
Special:ProblemReports
Special:UncategorizedCategories
Special:UncategorizedImages
Special:UncategorizedPages
Special:UnusedImages
Special:WantedCategories
Check out the full list of special pages at Special:SpecialPages.

Some Other Interesting Pages

Want to find out what you've done so far? Visit your contributions page.
Find out more about the wiki on Special:WikiaStats, Special:Statistics and Special:Version!
Know someone who would make a great rollback, admin, or bureaucrat? Nominate them at Xenopedia:Request for user rights!

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-[[File:Strangle_hold_pic.jpg|thumb|Welcome To The Community Portal!]]
+[[File:CommunityPortalPic.jpg|thumb|250px|Welcome to the Community Portal!]]
+<br>
+<center><span style="font-size:25px;">'''Welcome to Xenopedia!'''</span></center>
-'''Welcome to {{SITENAME}}!''' The Community Portal is where this wiki community comes together to organize and discuss projects for the wiki. To see the most recent discussions, click the '''Discussion''' tab above.
-You can find out more general information about the wiki on the [[Project:About|About]] page.
+The Xenopedia '''Community Portal''' is where this wiki community comes together to organize and discuss projects for the wiki. To see the most recent discussions, click the '''Talk''' button above.
-==New to wikis?==
-* If you are new to wikis, you may want to read the '''[[Help:Tutorial 1|tutorial]]'''.
-* There is some advice on getting this wiki started at '''[[Help:Starting this wiki]]'''.
-* A list of most help pages can be found on '''[[Help:Contents]]''' and in '''[[:Category:Help]]'''.
+You can find out more general information about the wiki on the [[Xenopedia:About|About]] page.
-==How to help out==
-* If you want to help but you're not sure where to start, try improving the various '''[[:Category:Article stubs|stub]]''' articles by adding content.
+==New to Wikis?==
+* If you are new to wikis, you may want to read [[Help:Editing]].
+* A list of most help pages can be found on [[Help:Contents]] and in [[:Category:Help]].
+==How to Help Out==
+* If you want to help but you're not sure where to start, try improving the various '''[[:Category:Stubs|stub]]''' articles by adding content.
 * Another helpful activity would be to check the list of '''[[Special:WantedPages|wanted pages]]''' for frequently linked-to articles that don't exist yet.
 * To follow the changes to this wiki, and to look out for new users and edits use '''[[Special:RecentChanges|recent changes]]'''.
-* You can find a list of useful templates on '''[[:Category:Templates]]''', some of which are documented on '''[[{{ns:project}}:Templates]]'''.
+* You can find a list of useful templates on '''[[:Category:Templates]]''', the most common of which are documented on '''[[Xenopedia:Templates]]'''.
-* If you need help editing, you could start with '''[[Help:Editing]]''' or '''[[Help:Tutorial 1|the tutorial]]'''.
+* If you need help editing, you could start with '''[[Help:Editing]]''' or the '''[[Help:Tutorial 1|tutorial]]'''.
-==Want to discuss stuff?==
+==Want to Discuss Stuff?==
-* If you want to discuss anything specific to an article, you can use '''[[Help:Talk page|the talk page]]''' for that article.
+* If you want to discuss anything specific to an article, you can use the '''[[Help:Talk page|talk page]]''' for that article.
-* For more general discussions you can use the Discussion tab of this page, or a Forum if the forums have been set up.
+* For more general discussions you can use the Discussion tab on this page, or post in the Forum.
-==Things to do==
+==Things to Do==
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 ; Useful activities
+# Fix code in [[:Template:App]] (requires unlocking), or create a replacement template. Code can be played with in [[User:Mardus/Template:App sandbox|this user template sandbox]].
-* Help expand some '''[[:Category:Article stubs|article stubs]]'''.
+# Improve layout, grammar and spelling.
-* '''[[Special:ShortPages|Locate]]''' and '''[[Template:Stub|mark]]''' pages that need expanding as [[:Category:Article stubs|article stubs]].
-* Create links to some '''[[Special:LonelyPages|orphaned pages]]'''.
+# Help expand some '''[[:Category:Stubs|article stubs]]'''.
+# '''[[Special:ShortPages|Locate]]''' and '''[[Template:Stub|mark]]''' pages that need expanding as [[:Category:Article stubs|article stubs]].
-* Upload and add some images! Visit '''[[Special:Upload]]'''. Add them to a category too, like <nowiki>[[</nowiki>[[:Category:Images]]<nowiki>]]</nowiki>.
-* Write a new article that's on the '''[[Special:WantedPages|the wanted list]]'''!
+# Create links to some '''[[Special:LonelyPages|orphaned pages]]'''.
+# Upload and add some images! Visit '''[[Special:Upload]]'''. Add them to a category too, like <nowiki>[[</nowiki>[[:Category:Images]]<nowiki>]]</nowiki>.
-* Fix any '''[[Special:DoubleRedirects|double redirects]]''' by redirecting the first page to the third page.
+# Write a new article that's on the '''[[Special:WantedPages|the wanted list]]'''!
-* Check for '''[[Special:BrokenRedirects|broken redirects]]''' and either mark them for deletion or find a more appropriate target.
-* Consider splitting up very '''[[Special:LongPages|long pages]]''' into different pages or subpages.
+# Fix any '''[[Special:DoubleRedirects|double redirects]]''' by redirecting the first page to the third page.
+# Check for '''[[Special:BrokenRedirects|broken redirects]]''' and either mark them for deletion or find a more appropriate target.
-* Create some links on '''[[Special:DeadendPages|dead end pages]]'''.
+# Consider splitting up very '''[[Special:LongPages|long pages]]''' into different pages or subpages.
+# Create some links on '''[[Special:DeadendPages|dead end pages]]'''.
 * ''Add more...''
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-==Some other interesting pages==
+==Some Other Interesting Pages==
 * Want to find out what you've done so far? Visit [[Special:Mycontributions|your contributions page]].
 * Find out more about the wiki on '''[[Special:WikiaStats]]''', '''[[Special:Statistics]]''' and '''[[Special:Version]]'''!
+* Know someone who would make a great rollback, admin, or bureaucrat? Nominate them at [[Xenopedia:Request for user rights]]!
 [[Category:Help|Community Portal]]
 [[Category:Community| ]]