WiiUBrew:Contributing

Become a wiki editor

Help is always needed here on the wiki!

1. You should register. It's not absolutely necessary to interact with the wiki, but it helps identifying you and with building your reputation in the community. Please use the same (or similar to the) nick you use in IRC.
2. Go through the Wikipedia Editing tutorial. It's not that long, added up it's less than two pages. Go through the entire thing, make sure you are familiar.
3. Read this entire page twice. Thoroughly (Especially the Rules).
4. Dive into the To Do below. If you want to practice you can use our two sandbox pages. (Sandbox 1 | Sandbox 2)
5. Look below for some very useful Wiki documentation. (Such as this page which searching will reveal how to do something, such as adding an article to a Category)

To do

The most benefit comes from the things detailed below. The articles here are good but could be much better. We must make them great.

Editors should use the Contributing discussion section for proposing changes and keeping track of cleanup/improvement progress.

General improvement

Formatting / Organizing

• Organize and format all articles that need it
• Make sure editing an article for this will make information EASIER to read/find. That said, just about every article could do with a heavy dose of this. Function should come at the sake of looks.

Pages for homebrew

WiiUBrew does not have many pages about the various homebrew applications! One simple way to help is to create homebrew pages that do not yet exist.

Categories

See: Categories and List of pages without category.

The goal is to have *every* article in some category.

• Make sure the categories are proper and actually apply.
• Go through all articles and make categories as necessary.
• Add an article to as many categories that it fits in.
• Use categories to make pages drastically easier to find.
• Add Development Category

Linking

• Inter-wiki linking, aka linking together (i.e. [[ Link ]] stuff). Make sure people know there's an article for something.
• Linking to relevant websites, articles on other sites, YouTube or other video site videos in articles they're relevant to are needed.
• See Also sections would definitely make finding related information much easier for users (an example). After just a few hours of reading about progress in the WiiUBrew scene, it should be obvious what articles are related.

Vandalism

• Vandalism most often comes in the form of nonsense and gibberish added to articles here.
• If you are sure an edit to an article constitutes vandalism (e.g. intentionally false, disruptive, or crude information is added), please use the "undo" function from the article's "diff" page or undo the edit manually.
• If a page's sole purpose is for spam (for example, titled Safsdasfssadsf), place {{Delete}} at the top to inform administrators about it.