Editing Guide to contributing to the wiki (section)

== What needs doing? ==

=== New pages ===

New content is constantly being added to ss13 which needs tutorials and such. Before you start to write a page, search for it and if you can't find it, start one yourself. We welcome all contributions to the wiki and trust all edits to be made in good faith. As a recommendation if you wish to work on a page uninterrupted and not worry about other users edits while working, make it in your personal [[Special:MyPage/Sandbox|sandbox]] area or anywhere in your own pages. If you don't know wikicode, you can create a unformatted page and ask someone else to format it for you.

=== Content revisions ===

A list of pages which need revisions can be found [[:Category:Needs revision|here]]

Updates are frequent and we need people to update the information on the wiki. To do this simply edit the page with new information. If you don't know wikicode you can write the new, updated content on the discussion page without formatting.

=== Images ===

If you have relevant images then upload them and add them to the page they're intended for. It is appreciated if the pictures of items you add have a blank background and are in the .gif or .png format. The easiest way to add images of items is to download the [[Downloading the source code#Downloading|source code]], open the icons .dmi files and export images as .gif's or .png's from there.

Then upload them here: https://tgstation13.org/wiki/Special:Upload

=== Tabs ===
Any page can have tabs added to it through the <code><nowiki> <tabs> </nowiki></code> function. This function has the known problem of displaying correctly in a page edit preview, but incorrectly once an edit is applied. To fix this, the page's cache has to be flushed; One easy method is adding ?action=purge at the end of a page's URL. If the problem persist, leave a post [https://tgstation13.org/phpBB/viewforum.php?f=45| on the forum].

=== Marking for revision and deletion ===

If a page is '''up to date''' when you read it, please put the following tag at it's top (with the correct date):

<code>
<nowiki>{{Lastrevision | date = 15. 1. 2012}}</nowiki><br>
</code>

If a page is '''out of date''' or doesn't have a reason for existing, add one of the following tags to the top of the page:

<code>
<nowiki>{{Needs revision}}</nowiki><br>
</code>
<code>
<nowiki>{{Needs revision | reason = Out of date.}}</nowiki><br>
</code>
or<br>
<code>
<nowiki>{{delete}}</nowiki>
</code>