Pikipedia:Helping out
Welcome! We're really glad you decided to help out on Pikipedia. You can start right away: if you see any little thing that could be improved, work on it! We appreciate any kind of constructive edit, from a humble typo fix to an entirely new page.
How to edit
Information you should know to edit on Pikipedia.
Beginners
If you're new to wikis, we have some pages that will help you understand how everything works.
- On Pikipedia:
- On Wikipedia:
Guidelines
If you're comfortable with editing wikis, we ask you to please read Pikipedia's policies, so that all articles can be consistent and high quality.
Getting help
If you have any question, beginner or advanced, there are a few easy ways to get answers:
- Ask on the live chatroom. Please wait a few minutes for someone to reply!
- Ask on the help desk.
- For more general help, go here.
What to do
There are two main ways to help Pikipedia. You can either read articles, and contribute with improvements (rewording a sentence, adding an image, performing a tagged task, suggesting an idea on the talk page, etc.), or you can pick something from the list of tasks and start working on it:
- Stubs – short articles that need more information. Contribute by adding some.
- Cleanup – articles or sections that need some cleaning up. This can go from rewording some poor sentences to completely rewriting the section.
- To do list – minor tasks scattered around.
- Pages that need images – articles that either have poor images, or very few. Upload some!
- Wanted pages – articles that are being called, but don't exist. Try creating one!
- Articles to be deleted, merged and split – articles that have been nominated to be deleted, merged with another article, or split into two or more pages. Share your opinion about it on the article's talk page.
- Articles in need of specific game help – these pages need help from somebody who owns a specific game and/or version. If you have the required games, contribute!
- Current projects – list of big projects that are happening right now. Pick one you like, and help out!
- Tag articles and sections that need help with the corresponding templates.
- Go through the images and...
- ...find any with low quality, and add an {{image}} tag to it.
- ...find any without a given license, and add an {{unlicensed}} tag to it.
- Compare existing articles with our policies, and if something is wrong (like a game name that's not italicized), fix it!
- Find articles and files that are not under the categories they should be in, and categorize them. Remember to use the deepest category possible!
- Find dead links and update them.
- Give your opinion by nominating a new featured article for the main page, or voting on existing nominations.
Other helpful links
- Sandbox – our sandbox. You can freely write here to test stuff before putting it on important pages.
- About Pikipedia – information about our wiki, which should help understand our goals better.