Survivor Wiki:Beginners Guide

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You're new and you want to help us out but not exactly sure how to start or what to do. Here is a helpful guide that will let you get started with the Survivor Wiki.

Note: This is a very basic guide and for information on more intricate and complicated coding, please check out the official Wikia site. Be sure to also read about our Policies section on spoilers and editing.

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[edit] Starting Out

So you just stumbled on to the Survivor Wiki and not sure how to exactly get started. The first thing you should do is register a name. That way when you do edits we can know all of your contributions and what you did. Also by clicking your name in the top corner you can make your own personal page by using the same coding as other pages. Your own page lets us know a little bit about you and helps us know who is contributing.

[edit] Editing

As you can see, the Survivor Wiki is a fairly new project and we need all the help we can get when adding information to the page. Here are some helpful ideas on how to edit certain pages. We are striving for all pages to follow a similar format, use this as a guide to help you get the right format on the right page. I'll be following along with the Rudy Boesch page, and you can use it for reference.

Before we get to the actual page you should no some of the following:

1. To bold a word simply type ''' on each side of a word.
2. To start a new headline type == on each side of the word.
3. To link to another page in the wiki type [[Other Page Title]]
4. To add an image, be sure to upload it to our server and type [[Image:Imagename.png]]

First click on any contestant page that has no information. It should be a blank text box. If it is already a page, click the edit button at the top of the page.

Now paste in the following:

<div style="clear: right; text-align: center; float: right; padding: .4em .9em .9em">

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="305" style="border-collapse:collapse;"

! style="border:1px solid;" | {{sidebar| image=[[Image:Image.png|200px]]

| name= <div style="border:1px solid red;">'''Name'''</div>

| seasons=

| age=

| hometown=

| occupation=

| tribes=

| challengeswon=

| votesagainst=

| placement=

| votedoff=

| days=}}

|}</div>

Now fill in the information. In this case I will be filling in information for Rudy Boesch. For any Season, Tribe, or Episode you mention on the side be sure to put [[ ]] around the word.

<div style="clear: right; text-align: center; float: right; padding: .4em .9em .9em">

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="305" style="border-collapse:collapse;"

! style="border:1px solid;" | {{sidebar| image=[[Image:Rudy Boesch.png|200px]]

| name= <div style="border:1px solid red;">'''Rudy Boesch'''</div>

| seasons=[[Borneo]], [[All Stars]]

| age=73, 76

| hometown=Virginia Beach, VA

| occupation=Ex-Navy SEAL

| tribes=[[Tagi]], [[Rattana]], [[Saboga]]

| challenges=6 (5 tribal & 1 individual)

| votes=8 (6 pre-merge & 2 post-merge)

| placement=3rd ([[Borneo]]), 17th ([[All-Stars]])

| votedoff=Episode 113 ([[Season Finale]]), Episode 802 ([[Panicked, Desperate, Thirsty as Hell]])

| days=38 ([[Borneo]]), 6 ([[All Stars]])}}

|}</div>

Good now when you put it in it should look like the box on the side. If it doesn't look like the box below you might want to check out your coding and make sure you didn't accidentally delete anything.

Now all you have to do is put in some headlines. The first would be the contestants name followed by a biography. Next, type in their season name and a paragraph or so on how they played the game. Finally fill in any voting history and challenge history that the contestant might have and any memorable moments.

Again we are striving for everything to look similar to each other. So please use this format when making a contestant page. When making a season or a tribe page you use similar codes which can be found on various tribe pages. Good examples are Saboga and Borneo. We also would like for you to try and get images without logos of website on them and that are very close, if not, the same size as other images. Don't be afraid to ask for help and remember it is a policy of Survivor Wiki to remained unbiased and to not post any spoiler information before the airing of the show.

If you are ever unsure what to type look at another page that looks similar to the three listed in this article. If you are looking on what pages to fill check out our Wanted.

So that was a pretty basic way to get yourself started, so go on out and start making some pages!