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:
  • Quick start guide
  • Editing guide
  • Help pages
  • Frequently Asked Questions
• On Wikipedia:
  • The five pillars of Wikipedia
  • How to edit a page
  • Help pages
  • Tutorial
  • How to write a great article
  • Manual of Style

Guidelines

If you're comfortable with editing wikis, we ask you to please read Pikipedia's policies and guidelines, 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:

• Add more Pikmin info
  • Add more information to stubs.
  • Follow the to do list of minor tasks.
  • Upload images to articles that need them.
  • Create wanted pages.
  • Contribute with knowledge about a specific game or version, if you have it!
• Contribute without Pikmin knowledge
  • Provide translations.
  • Clean up articles or sections that need attention.
  • Add missing sources.
  • Update dead links.
  • Fix duplicate arguments in templates.
  • Correct any reference errors.
  • Fix unrecognized button icons.
• Discuss
  • Nominate new items or vote on existing nominations for the main page's...
    • Next featured article.
    • Next poll.
  • Voice your opinion on articles that are pending to be...
    • Deleted.
    • Merged.
    • Split.
• Read articles and help them out
  • Tag articles and sections that need help with the corresponding templates.
  • 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!
• Others
  • Current projects – list of big projects that are happening right now. Pick one you like, and help out!
  • Go through the images and...
    • ...find any with low quality, and upload a replacement or add an {{image}} tag to it.
    • ...find any without a description, and add one.
    • ...find any without a given license, and add one.
    • ...find any that is unused and use it on an article, or mark it for deletion ({{delete}}) if it's no good.

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.