Help talk:Contents

Copying helpful pages from the Starter Wikia
Greetings, fellow-colonials!

Since early this year, Wikia has a separate site solely devoted to holding (and occasionally improving) helpful pages that any Wikia can benefit from. Every new Wikia gets them all as an automatic starter package. We in pre-2007 Wikia can copy them over if we want them.

I strongly recommend that one or more of you open a new window right this minute and go to w:c:Starter:Help:Contents. Then repeat above steps. Eventually you will produce a page here with no red links; backtrack here to find one that has red links (and similarly backtrack in Starter to find the "Edit" mode of the matching page).
 * 1) Hit the Edit link on the Starter Wikia page
 * 2) Highlight the whole edit box and COPY; leave that page in Edit mode in case you need templates from it
 * 3) Return here, check that you are on the matching page, in Edit mode, and PASTE
 * 4) Preview if unsure, but it's seldom necessary; red links will be OK eventually
 * 5) SAVE
 * 6) Click a red link on that new page (text or category or template) - if none, see note below
 * 7) Return to the Starter window and click the corresponding link on that page

An alternative, possibly quicker depending on how good you are at manipulating address bars, is to copy all 100-odd Starter Wikia pages systematically working your way through Special:Allpages.

As a "starter" I've uploaded the image that makes Help:Images look good. And I may give you a couple of other pages modelled on what I have done for some other country Wikia.

Don't forget the World Netball Champs in November!

Robin Patterson 03:56, 1 August 2007 (UTC) in NZ