Cities Wiki:Community Portal
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Welcome to the Towns, Villages and Cities Wiki on Wikia!
The accompanying Talk page is one good place for discussion of the wiki. Please post your ideas for good things we can do to improve this site.
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[edit] Where to start
First see if your town is listed. Add a page for it if not.
The red links or question marks that you will see on many pages usually stand for articles or pages that deserve to be written but that nobody has started on. Just click on a link you know something about and write a couple of sentences, then "Save page" (preferably after a look using "Show preview"), that would be a good start and might inspire others to join in.
To "fix" the red links on as many pages as possible, find one of the "Most Wanted Articles" and create an article that is currently a "dead-end" link on more than one page.
[edit] Improvements wanted
All of the 736 articles already written need improvement (additions and/or corrections). See, for example, a list of the shortest articles. ANYONE can help.
[edit] How to edit
See Help:Editing.
You can start right in (and someone else will be able to improve it if necessary).
[edit] Experimenting
If you want to experiment with editing, play in the sandbox for a while until familiar with the basics.
[edit] Other points
Registering costs nothing except a few moments of your time; and it carries some advantages:
- you get credit (in the "History", which can be viewed even if the article is later changed) for anything you write,
- you are (surprisingly?) more anonymous because your I.P. number is not shown,
- you can keep personal "quick links" and "to do" lists on your User-page and get to it with one click from any other page, and
- you can very quickly add your name (or pseudonym) and the date to the end of "Talk" (discussion-page) paragraphs by typing four tildes (~).
If registered, you may go to commons:commons:Babel to find how easy it is to display boxes on your User-page that show which language[s] you understand.
Each article and each User-page has a corresponding talk/discussion page.
Enjoy!! (and please contribute something)
Note that starting a line with a blank produces an unexpected display, which has its uses but is seldom ideal in ordinary text, like this:
example.
[edit] Familiar with Wikipedia?
Much of the foregoing will be familiar to you.
[edit] Categories
We have (in common with Wikipedia and other MediaWiki sites) categories coded as "[[category:...". Very useful as indirect links to articles that have something in common. Every city or town page should have the city and/or country as a category.
[edit] Subpages
Every city can/should have "subpages". They can follow the Wikipedia style, eg "Music in Bloggsville"; however, the preferred form is "Bloggsville:Music", which has at least two advantages: it's quicker to type, it collects all together in any list of all pages, and you can more easily create piped internal links to other subpages of the same city without having to have the city name showing, eg "the city's [[Bloggsville:music|]] scene" should display as "the city's music scene" with "music" the link.
Each of them should have the city as a category and maybe the subject-matter too.
Subpages using slashes instead of colons may have their place too. Pluses amd minuses.
[edit] Images
If you are even half competent with images, please grab some from Commons or elsewhere (suitably acknowledged) to illustrate some of our pages.
Source: this page contains some material copied from http://mi/wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_Portal. See that page's history for a list of authors.
[edit] Naming Conventions
See Cities Wiki talk:Community Portal for discussion starting June 2006.
[edit] Collaboration of the month
See Cities Wiki talk:Community Portal for discussion starting July 2006.
[edit] Coordination with other Wikia
See Cities Wiki talk:Community Portal for discussion starting July 2006.
