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|title = Your first edits
|title = Your first edits
|text = What makes a good article? This should help you get started on how to more effectly edit existing or new articles.  
|text = What makes a good article? This should help you get started on how to more effectly edit existing or new articles.  
|link = Help:Article_Guideline
|link = Help:Editing/Your first edit
|linktext = Read this guide
|linktext = Read this guide
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|title = Talk Pages
|title = The basics of VisualEditor
|text = Every wiki page has an associated talk page, which can be used for discussion and communicating with other users. You can learn more about this by reading this guide.
|text = Some more detailed tips on editing using VisualEditor, including how to add links and format bold and italic text.
|link = Help:Talk_pages
|link = Help:Editing/VisualEditor Basics
|linktext = Read this guide
|linktext = Read this guide
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|title = Signatures
 
|text = Users can easily sign their posts at the end of a comment. Signing is normally done on talk pages only, not on conjointly written articles. Learn how to use signatures by reading this guide.
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|title = Templates
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|text = Learn about all the available templates for this Wiki and how to properly use them.
|title=Contents
|link = Help:Templates
|linktext = Read this guide
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|title = Introduction to source mode
|title = Introduction to source mode
|text = Editing using the classic source mode, which allows you to view and change wikitext directly.
|text = Editing using the classic source mode, which allows you to view and change wikitext directly.
|link = Gem Wiki:Editing/Source mode basics
|link = Help:Editing/Source mode basics
|linktext = Read this guide
|linktext = Read this guide
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|title = Cheat sheet for source mode
|title = Cheat sheet for source mode
|text = A short guide that lists the syntax needed to create font styles, links, templates, and headers in source mode.
|text = A short guide that lists the syntax needed to create font styles, links, templates, and headers in source mode.
|link = Gem Wiki:Editing/Cheat sheet
|link = Help:Editing/Cheat sheet
|linktext = Read this guide
|linktext = Read this guide
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|title = Taking screenshots
|text = The types of images we need on the wiki, how to take them, and how to upload.
|link = Help:Editing/Taking images
|linktext = Read this guide
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|title = Introduction to GIMP
|text = A guide to GIMP, a free cross-platform image editor with brushes, layer capabilities, selection tools, masking, etc.
|link = Help:Editing/Introduction to GIMP
|linktext = Read this guide
}}
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|title = Adding transparency
|text = How to cut out the background and other unnecessary parts of an image, putting the focus on the subject.
|link = Help:Editing/Image transparency
|linktext = Read this guide
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|title = Adding translucency
|text = An advanced guide to adding translucency (removing the background) to images with semi-transparent parts.
|link = Help:Editing/Image translucency
|linktext = Read this guide
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<div style="display: flex; justify-content: center; flex-flow: row wrap">
<div style="display: flex; justify-content: center; flex-flow: row wrap">
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|title = Advanced guide to VisualEditor
|text = Making more complicated edits using the default editor.
|link = Help:Editing/VisualEditor advanced
|linktext = Read this guide
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|title = What's possible with source mode
|title = What's possible with source mode
|text = Examples of some of the more complicated types of edits that can be made on the wiki.
|text = Examples of some of the more complicated types of edits that can be made on the wiki.
|link = Gem Wiki:Editing/Advanced editing
|link = Help:Editing/Advanced editing
|linktext = Read this guide
|linktext = Read this guide
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|title = Tables
|title = Tables
|text = More details about editing tables in source mode
|text = More details about editing tables in source mode
|link = Gem Wiki:Editing/Tables
|link = Help:Editing/Tables
|linktext = Read this guide
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|title = Templates
|text = Learn about all the available templates for this Wiki and how to properly use them.
|link = Help:Templates
|linktext = Read this guide
|linktext = Read this guide
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|title = Creating navboxes
|title = Creating navboxes
|text = How to make the navigational templates located at the bottom of most pages.
|text = How to make the navigational templates located at the bottom of most pages.
|link = Gem Wiki:Editing/Navbox
|link = Help:Editing/Navbox
|linktext = Read this guide
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|title = Lua guide
|text = How to create modules using Lua, and invoke them from templates.
|link = Help:Editing/Lua guide
|linktext = Read this guide
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|title = Dynamic Page List (DPL)
|text = How to use DynamicPageList3 (DPL) to Aggregate pages, information, templates, params etc from many pages into one place.
|link = Help:Editing/DPL guide
|linktext = Read this guide
|linktext = Read this guide
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|text = The basics of managing your account, preferences, user page and signatures.
|link = Help:Editing/Accounts and user pages
|linktext = Read this guide
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|title = Talk pages and discussions
|text = How to discuss page (and template, module etc) content, propose major changes and take part in wiki-wide discussions.
|link = Help:Editing/Talk pages and discussions
|linktext = Read this guide
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|title = Customizing your signature
|text = How to customize your signature.
|link = Help:Customizing your signature
|linktext = Read this guide
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|text = The policies all users are expected to adhere to while editing on the Gemini Station Wiki.
|link = GSWiki:Policies
|linktext = Read about policies
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|title = Style guides
|text = Style guides are to make the wiki easy to read, write and edit by establishing a certain formats and maintaining consistency.
|link = Help:Article Guideline
|linktext = Read the style guides
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|title = One Small Wiki Favor
|text = An ongoing project that rewards users with wiki tokens for helping with ongoing projects on the wiki!
|link = GSWiki:One Small Wiki Favor
|linktext = Edit and earn wiki tokens
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|title = Projects
|text = There are always a number of large projects going on that could use your help, as well as standard maintenance items.
|link = GSWiki:Maintenance
|linktext = Explore ongoing projects
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|title = New Projects
|text = Want to suggest a new project, or start a project that has been suggested but not started yet?
|link = GSWiki:Maintenance/Project ideas
|linktext = Start or suggest a project
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|linktext = Read this guide
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Latest revision as of 09:51, 14 January 2021

Get started with editing the wiki.

Anyone can edit any page and improve articles immediately for all readers. The Gemini Station Wiki uses two methods of editing: the simpler VisualEditor, and classic editing through source mode.

Your first edits

What makes a good article? This should help you get started on how to more effectly edit existing or new articles.

Read this guide

The basics of VisualEditor

Some more detailed tips on editing using VisualEditor, including how to add links and format bold and italic text.

Read this guide

Contents

Using source mode
Creating Images
Advanced guides
Community
Policies
What to edit
Get more help

Using source mode

Source mode allows you to see all of the wikitext on a page and to edit it directly. If you are trying to make more complex changes, you should switch to the source editor.

Introduction to source mode

Editing using the classic source mode, which allows you to view and change wikitext directly.

Read this guide

Cheat sheet for source mode

A short guide that lists the syntax needed to create font styles, links, templates, and headers in source mode.

Read this guide

Creating Images

Taking screenshots

The types of images we need on the wiki, how to take them, and how to upload.

Read this guide

Introduction to GIMP

A guide to GIMP, a free cross-platform image editor with brushes, layer capabilities, selection tools, masking, etc.

Read this guide

Adding transparency

How to cut out the background and other unnecessary parts of an image, putting the focus on the subject.

Read this guide

Adding translucency

An advanced guide to adding translucency (removing the background) to images with semi-transparent parts.

Read this guide

Advanced guides

Advanced guide to VisualEditor

Making more complicated edits using the default editor.

Read this guide

What's possible with source mode

Examples of some of the more complicated types of edits that can be made on the wiki.

Read this guide

Tables

More details about editing tables in source mode

Read this guide

Templates

Learn about all the available templates for this Wiki and how to properly use them.

Read this guide

Creating navboxes

How to make the navigational templates located at the bottom of most pages.

Read this guide

Lua guide

How to create modules using Lua, and invoke them from templates.

Read this guide

Dynamic Page List (DPL)

How to use DynamicPageList3 (DPL) to Aggregate pages, information, templates, params etc from many pages into one place.

Read this guide

Community

Accounts and user pages

The basics of managing your account, preferences, user page and signatures.

Read this guide

Talk pages and discussions

How to discuss page (and template, module etc) content, propose major changes and take part in wiki-wide discussions.

Read this guide

Customizing your signature

How to customize your signature.

Read this guide

Policies

Policies

The policies all users are expected to adhere to while editing on the Gemini Station Wiki.

Read about policies

Style guides

Style guides are to make the wiki easy to read, write and edit by establishing a certain formats and maintaining consistency.

Read the style guides

What to edit

If you don't know what to start editing and don't have a specific project in mind the following pages may help.

One Small Wiki Favor

An ongoing project that rewards users with wiki tokens for helping with ongoing projects on the wiki!

Edit and earn wiki tokens

Projects

There are always a number of large projects going on that could use your help, as well as standard maintenance items.

Explore ongoing projects

New Projects

Want to suggest a new project, or start a project that has been suggested but not started yet?

Start or suggest a project
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