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Wikibase (FAQ)
We are going to try to do something different, here. We are going to take the most-commonly mentioned gripes about our wiki and try to answer them, very simply, but with a pointer to the Documentation page that explains it in greater detail. Perhaps this way we can remove some of the wall of text that seems to be separating many who would like to contribute her, but just can't seem to get the hang of our system.
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What is a Wikibase?
To put it very simply, Wikibase is the word we coined for the integration of a classic database for maintaining all the hard data for a game, with a wiki so that users and admins can easily create guides and content as a community.
When I was working at one of the other wikis, a few years ago, again and again my greatest wish was that we actually had a database that I could keep all the game data in and a way to access it from the wiki. When Allakhazam asked me to join the team, here, that was exactly how he got me. He offered me my dream. A wiki IS a database, but it is a database for words (in pages). It is very hard to make a wiki searchable for related data. That is the job of a database. So here we let the database do what it does best, and the wiki do what it does best. --Bludwyng
How do I edit a page?
Across the top of the Wiki Panel (what we call that portion of the page layout that is the wiki) you will see the wiki menu bar: View, Edit, History, Media, and Discuss. If you click on Edit it opens up the Wiki Editor. This is just a simple text editor and should be familiar to anyone that has ever edited a wiki.
At the Bottom is the Edit Summary line and three buttons: Save Changes, View Changes, and Preview. We do not force you to enter an Edit Summary but this is useful when many editors are working in the same game and would like to know, just from the Recent Changes page, what everyone has been working on.
When you are done making your changes just press the Save Changes button to send it to the wiki compiler and everyone can see your changes immediately.
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