MediaWiki:Community-to-do-list

Welcome to the Community Portal!

Important pages
This page lists some of the pages you might like to use as you contribute here.


 * To follow the changes to this wiki, and to look out for new events and problem edits, use recent changes.


 * To find out major areas in which you can help with this wiki, use the "things to do" page.


 * If you want to discuss anything about an article, you can use the talk pages.


 * For more general discussion, use the general talk page or the forum.


 * If you need help editing, you could start with the tutorial on the Central Wikia.

Editing is better than criticizing
People have often written a short message on a talk page saying how bad the page is, without even specifying what's wrong with it. This can be frustrating for the editors who worked on the page. Additionally, if an article is bad because it's incomplete (i.e. it has a stub message or a message calling for its expansion), complaining about it won't make the work magically happen. There are appropriate ways to point out that a page needs improvement, such as putting,  and  on pages as appropriate. See template:stub, template:expand and template:cleanup for details.

Be bold
It doesn't matter much whether you as an individual can write "well" enough. Editing articles is a great way to learn about how the wiki runs, and other contributors will probably come in to make little fixes anyway. We only ask that you be coherent in your edits so that appropriate action can easily be determined. However, you should avoid engaging in so-called "edit wars" by reverting what other people do to your work without reason.

A lot of first-time editors get their edits reverted or mercilessly modified. Don't feel too badly about this, because other editors simply want to maintain the quality of the article that you just edited. All in all, this wiki is a community effort.

Guidelines
Please keep in mind that guidelines do exist and that articles are generally expected to be of a certain level of quality. You should especially be aware of the in-universe style in which articles about the Ace Attorney universe are written; this means that you should use past tense in your sentences and refer to all characters by their last names. This allows each article to read like an actual record one might find inside the Ace Attorney universe. More information on guidelines can be found in the manual of style.

Please learn how templates work before attempting something major with them. If a word or a block of code is enclosed by double curly brackets ( – ), it's calling a template. You should go to the template's page to see how it works so that when you edit code that uses the template, your edit will appear as you intended.

Making new articles
Here are a few things that a new article should always include:


 * Categories. This is probably the most important thing to include. Categories allow people to find the new article more easily and to improve on it!


 * Appropriate templates. Character articles need to have Template:Character on them. Episode articles need to have Template:CaseData or Template:Investigation and Template:Episodes on them. Articles about places and organizations need to have Template:Place on them. You can use the buttons above the new article editing box to input these automatically.

Other Ace Attorney communities

 * Official website
 * Court Records, a general Ace Attorney fansite complete with forums
 * Ace Attorney Online, a website that hosts fanmade Ace Attorney cases
 * Walkthroughs and other information from GameFAQs
 * Capcom-Unity