Editing Editing Help

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For editors looking for resources to help them add to the wiki, the following external sources are very useful!  Feel free to add legal sources of your own if you know of any! 

*'''Remember''': If you spot vandalism on the wiki, please contact one of the [[Moderators]] who can assist you in dealing with it. Simply write on their talk pages.

*'''Before Editing''': Read the [[Posting Rules]] to get an idea of how to write on a wiki.

== What Can I Do? ==
*Add links to databases to articles listed in this [[:Category:Articles Needing DB Links|category]]. (Use the RO Lookup Tool in the Tools section to speed this process up)
*Add information to pages needing [[:Category:Pages_needing_expert_attention|expert attention]].
*Update pages which need [[:Category:Articles Needing To Be Updated|updating]].
*Comment on current [[Discussion]]s.
*For those playing on other official non-iRO servers, update the [[Servers]] page with the latest information about the server you play on.
*Add builds/equipment/etc. to [[Classes|class]] pages.
*Add unlisted terms to the [[Glossary]].
*Create new [[userboxes]] and customize your userpage!
*And of course, improving many of our other pages.

== How To Start Editing ==
* Anyone can be an editor.
* To edit any page on the wiki, press the ''edit'' tab on the top of the page (read the [[Posting Rules]] for rules and standards).
* The ''history'' tab shows who has recently changed the document and in what way. This is a useful way to see if anything has changed recently. The ''cur'' link on the left of any edit compares that version with the currently active one. The ''prev'' link compares it to the one before, showing what that author did.
* If there is confusion over an edit, questionable data, or information one is unsure how to write in the article, editors are welcomed to write in Talk Pages. Click on the ''discussion'' tab of an article to see it's talk page. If it's red, that means there has been no previous discussion; however, editors are free to simply create a new page. Remember to end your text with a signature by typing '''<nowiki>--~~~~</nowiki>''' in talk pages (but not the articles themselves).

== Tools ==
*[http://irowiki.org/wikitool/ RO Lookup Tool] - Quickly generate code for monsters/cards on iRO Wiki!  Cuts down time needed to add DB links to articles.
*[http://www.excel2wiki.net Copy & Paste Excel to Wiki Converter] - Easy way to convert Excel spreadsheets into wiki tables (note: change <nowiki>{{table}}</nowiki> to class="wikitable")

== RO Wiki Resources ==
*[http://db.irowiki.org/classic/ iW Classic DB] - RO Database (Currently being used by the Monster/Map/Item templates on the wiki)

== MediaWiki Help ==
*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing Basic Editing Help]
*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Table Table Formatting Help]
*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:HTML_in_wikitext HTML in Wikitext]

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