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This page contains information relating to Pikmin Fanon's community.

Welcome to Pikmin Fanon! The community portal is where this wiki community comes together to organize and discuss projects for the wiki.

Resources

The following is a list of useful resources any user can refer to at any time.

A list of help items can be found on the help contents page and in the help category.
The Ask Louie forum also contains helpful information and can be used to ask more specific questions.
Alternatively, ask an active user here or on the Fanon Wiki's Discord server for real-time assistance.
Users that need help editing should see the editing help page's contents.
Read Pikmin Fanon's policies and guidelines so that articles can be consistent and of high quality.
Also be sure to see here for a collection of useful templates, some of which are documented here.
To discuss a topic specific to an article, use its respective talk page, and for general wiki discussion, use the forums. Remember to adhere to the talk page policy while doing so.
Learn more about Pikmin Fanon's goals in its about page.

The following Wikipedia pages can provide additional help to those that need it:

Helping out

Any user can help with the following tasks, and more.

Read articles and contribute with improvement such as rewording a sentence, performing a tagged task, suggesting an idea on their talk page, and more.
Crop or resize images as necessary to reduce the dimensional or storage size the occupy.
Locate and mark pages that need expanding, and help expand some existing article stubs and section stubs.
Create links to orphaned pages.
Upload missing files and incorporate unused ones.
Create, or fix links to, any wanted articles, categories, files, and templates.
Categorize any uncategorized articles, categories, files, and templates.
Fix double redirects by redirecting the first page to the third page.
Check for broken redirects and either mark them for deletion or find a more appropriate target.
Consider splitting very long pages into different pages or subpages.
Create some links on dead end pages.
Contribute to Project Clean-Up.
See what specific tasks need done in the to-do list.
Periodically check the recent changes page to monitor for vandalism, and report any to an active staff member.
Welcome new users.

Be sure to see the full list of special pages here.

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-'''Welcome to Pikmin Fanon!''' The Community Portal is where this wiki community comes together to organize and discuss projects for the wiki. To see the most recent discussions, click the '''Discussion''' tab above.
-You can find out more general information about the wiki on the [[Project:About|About]] page.
+Welcome to [[PikminFanon:About|Pikmin Fanon]]! The '''community portal''' is where this wiki community comes together to organize and discuss projects for the wiki.
-==New to wikis?==
+==Resources==
-* A list of most help pages can be found on '''[[Help:Contents]]''' and in '''[[:Category:Help]]'''.
+The following is a list of useful resources any user can refer to at any time.
-* Read Pikmin Fanon's [[PikminFanon:Policy|policies]] before doing anything irrational, and before doing anything else, for that matter.
+*A list of help items can be found on the [[Help:Contents|help content]]s page and in the [[:Category:Help|help category]].
+*The [[Forum:Ask Louie|Ask Louie]] forum also contains helpful information and can be used to ask more specific questions.
+*Alternatively, ask an active user here or on the [[fanonwiki:Main Page|Fanon Wiki]]'s [https://discord.gg/2eV52Dzp4k Discord server] for real-time assistance.
+*Users that need help editing should see the [[Help:Editing|editing help]] page's contents.
+*Read Pikmin Fanon's [[PikminFanon:Policies and guidelines|policies and guidelines]] so that articles can be consistent and of high quality.
+*Also be sure to see [[:Category:Templates|here]] for a collection of useful templates, some of which are documented [[PikminFanon:Templates|here]].
+*To discuss a topic specific to an article, use its respective [[Help:Talk page|talk page]], and for general wiki discussion, use the [[Forum:Index|forum]]s. Remember to adhere to the [[PikminFanon:Talk page policy|talk page policy]] while doing so.
+*Learn more about Pikmin Fanon's goals in its [[PikminFanon:About|about page]].
-==How to help out==
+The following {{w|Main Page|Wikipedia}} pages can provide additional help to those that need it:
-* If you want to help but you're not sure where to start, try improving the various '''[[:Category:Article stubs|stub]]''' articles by adding content.
+*{{w|Wikipedia:Five pillars|The five pillars of Wikipedia}}
-* Another helpful activity would be to check the list of '''[[Special:WantedPages|wanted pages]]''' for frequently linked-to articles that don't exist yet.
+*{{w|Help:Contents|Help pages}}
-* To follow the changes to this wiki, and to look out for new users and edits use '''[[Special:RecentChanges|recent changes]]'''.
+*{{w|Help:Introduction|Tutorial}}
-* You can find a list of useful templates on '''[[:Category:Templates]]''', some of which are documented on '''[[{{ns:project}}:Templates]]'''.
+*{{w|Help:Editing|How to edit a page}}
-* If you need help editing with editing, take a look at '''[[Help:Editing]]'''.
+*{{w|Wikipedia:Article development|How to write a quality article}}
+*{{w|Wikipedia:Manual of Style|Manual of Style}}
-==Want to discuss stuff?==
+==Helping out==
-* If you want to discuss anything specific to an article, you can use '''[[Help:Talk page|the talk page]]''' for that article.
+Any user can help with the following tasks, and more.
-* For more general discussions you can use the Discussion tab of this page, or a Forum if the forums have been set up.
+*Read articles and contribute with improvement such as rewording a sentence, performing a tagged task, suggesting an idea on their talk page, and more.
+*Crop or resize images as necessary to reduce the dimensional or storage size the occupy.
+*[[Special:ShortPages|Locate]] and [[Template:Stub|mark]] pages that need expanding, and help expand some existing [[:Category:Article stubs|article stub]]s and [[:Category:Pages with section stubs|section stub]]s.
+*Create links to [[Special:LonelyPages|orphaned page]]s.
+*[[Special:Upload|Upload]] missing files and incorporate [[Special:UnusedFiles|unused ones]].
+*Create, or fix links to, any wanted [[Special:WantedPages|articles]], [[Special:WantedCategories|categories]], [[Special:WantedFiles|files]], and [[Special:WantedTemplates|templates]].
+*Categorize any uncategorized [[Special:UncategorizedPages|articles]], [[Special:UncategorizedCategories|categories]], [[Special:UncategorizedFiles|files]], and [[Special:UncategorizedTemplates|templates]].
+*Fix [[Special:DoubleRedirects|double redirect]]s by redirecting the first page to the third page.
+*Check for [[Special:BrokenRedirects|broken redirect]]s and either [[Template:Delete|mark them for deletion]] or find a more appropriate target.
+*Consider splitting [[Special:LongPages|very long page]]s into different pages or subpages.
+*Create some links on [[Special:DeadendPages|dead end page]]s.
+*Contribute to [[PikminFanon:Project Clean-Up|Project Clean-Up]].
+*See what specific tasks need done in the [[PikminFanon:To-do list|to-do list]].
+*Periodically check the [[Special:RecentChanges|recent changes]] page to monitor for vandalism, and report any to an active [[Forum:Official list of staff|staff member]].
+*Welcome new users.
-==Things to do==
+Be sure to see the full list of special pages [[Special:SpecialPages|here]].
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-{{col-2}}
-; Useful activities
-* Help expand some '''[[:Category:Article stubs|article stubs]]'''.
-* '''[[Special:ShortPages|Locate]]''' and '''[[Template:Stub|mark]]''' pages that need expanding as [[:Category:Article stubs|article stubs]].
-* Create links to some '''[[Special:LonelyPages|orphaned pages]]'''.
-* Upload and add some images! Visit '''[[Special:Upload]]'''.
-* Write a new article that's on the '''[[Special:WantedPages|the wanted list]]'''!
-* Fix any '''[[Special:DoubleRedirects|double redirects]]''' by redirecting the first page to the third page.
-* Check for '''[[Special:BrokenRedirects|broken redirects]]''' and either mark them for deletion or find a more appropriate target.
-* Consider splitting up very '''[[Special:LongPages|long pages]]''' into different pages or subpages.
-* Create some links on '''[[Special:DeadendPages|dead end pages]]'''.
-* ''Add more...''
-{{col-2}}
+==See also==
-; Other useful special pages
+*Users can experiment freely in our [[PikminFanon:Sandbox|community sandbox]] as long as they clean up after themselves.
-*[[Special:BrokenRedirects]]
+*Users that wish to see what they have done so far can visit [[Special:MyContributions|their contributions page]].
-*[[Special:DoubleRedirects]]
+*See technical information about Pikmin Fanon's [[Special:Statistics|statistics]] and [[Special:Version|version]].
-*[[Special:UncategorizedCategories]]
-*[[Special:UncategorizedImages]]
-*[[Special:UncategorizedPages]]
-*[[Special:UnusedImages]]
-*[[Special:WantedCategories]]
-*'''Check out the full list of special pages at [[Special:SpecialPages]].'''
-{{col-end}}
-==Some other interesting pages==
+[[Category:Help| ]]
-* Want to find out what you've done so far? Visit [[Special:Mycontributions|your contributions page]].
-* Find out more about the wiki on '''[[Special:Statistics]]''' and '''[[Special:Version]]'''!
-[[Category:Help|Community Portal]]
 [[Category:Community| ]]