Sketch Pad Wiki:Tutorial

This area was created to give you a wide variety of things you might need to know when making and editing pages.

About Game Ideas Wiki
Game Ideas Wiki is a collection of articles where the brightest gaming minds can layout out their ideas for video games in encyclopedic form. That means that these articles are MADE UP. We may describe Super Mario Galaxy 3, but really, we don't know any more than you do what it will actually look like. We may make up other games. The companies listed do not know about these games. Hence the name of the site is the Game Ideas Wiki, but what is really cool is how you can add your own ideas to this collection. Guidelines on what to make are elsewhere, but anyone can make their own idea.

In summary, you will find ideas for possible games. You can enjoy others or make your own. This is not the place to record existing video games; but rather what you would have done different.

Guidelines
Our guidelines can be found at Sketch Pad Wiki:Simplified ruleset.

Navigation
The wiki is designed to resemble a video game. To add to that, navigation of our guidelines are divided into 5 sections:


 * New
 * Continue
 * Account
 * Tutorial
 * Community

But that list is rather vague. A more descriptive list is in the Manual § Navigation.

The articles on the wiki are joined through categories. The See More section may the best tool to use when looking for more great articles.

New to wikis?

 * If you are new to wikis, you may want to read the Wikia tutorials and the Game Ideas Wiki tutorial (the rest of this page).
 * There is some advice on getting this wiki started at Help:Start a new wikia.
 * A list of most help pages can be found on Help:Contents and in Category:Help.
 * Or just ask Wikia.

Wikia Help
Wikia provides us with a glossary of editing question-and-answer help. It covers most of the stuff that you will need to edit pretty much everything. It has a range from help for novices, to reminders for experts. This is an excellent help. On the other hand, it (obviously) doesn't cover everything. For the stuff it misses, try looking at the specifics.

Specific Editing
Guideline to Creating Articles Template:BOX|Filling out that awesome template

Wikia Help (More)
Many of these come from my blog, as I like to keep track of them. But they will now be added here, to help you guys. There is an extensive list of available tools, a list of "magic words" (" pages on the wiki" is written " pages on the wiki") and one of the best places ever to find answers to your questions. There is also a list of what administrators can do.

Help with Accounts

 * Want to find out what you've done so far? Visit your contributions page.

Definitions
Check the glossary.

Being professional

 * On how to write professional articles.
 * This wiki has some licencing awesomeness you should know about!

Things to remember:

 * This wiki is on the internet, and everyone can see your work. Act sharp or don't act at all is what we're saying!
 * Have fun creating your articles! We wish the best of luck to you and everyone here.
 * Talk pages are for discussing content. Discussions are for the community portal and forum. Your personal talk page is another place to have conversations. This page was made to communicate with the rest of the wiki our standards and remove similar sections that would appear on the main page talk page where they shouldn't be.
 * Talk page comments should always be signed with ~ or just
 * Confused about anything? Contact us!

Thank you for reading all the way here. We hope you feel confident enough to try out an article of your own. If you want to learn who you're working with, you could check out the community page. It lists everyone here.