How to Contribute to the Target Birds Wiki

## Introduction

Hello! Welcome to the Target Bird Wiki, and thank you for helping to contribute to this community. This community is owned by and managed by all and is maintained by community members who edit the Wiki and is intended to be a living Wiki that is updated with new information and releases. Please read this guide before editing and creating new pages.

## How to Contribute to the Wiki

1. Create new Target Bird, Target Mini Bird, and Accessory pages that do not currently exist and are stubbed out in the All Releases page as a non-linked item in the list.
2. Add information to preexisting pages. This can include new photos, new information, and linking to other pages.
3. Edit existing pages to better fit the style guidelines.

## Editing the Wiki

### Adding a New Page

1. In any page of the Target Bird Wiki, click the "triple dot" button at the top right of the screen.
2. Select "add page".
3. Type the name of the page in the text box.
4. Click the confirm button.
5. Save the page.

### Adding a New Bird

1. Create a new page with the name of the bird.
2. Add a front-facing photo (ideally a Target stock image) of the bird using the "photo" button in the toolbar.
3. Select "Insert" -> "Template" in the top toolbar.
4. Type "Target Bird" in the search bar and select the "Target Bird" template.
5. Fill in the template with the information available. Note that the image name must be typed out in exactly the same way as the file name was originally written. You can see how to fill out the template at Template:Target Bird.
6. Add a gallery with all photos. (Look at Labird for an example.) It may be easier to use the source editor (click "visual editor" in the top right to switch to this) to do this.
7. Save the changes with the "Save" button on the lower right side of the screen.
8. After creating a new bird, link the page to the entry in the All Releases page, the Birds page, and the corresponding collection, holiday/season, and year pages. Birds should be listed in alphabetical order within each section on these pages.

### Editing a Page

1. Navigate to the page that you wish to edit.
2. Click the pencil style edit button to edit the page or section that you wish to edit.
3. Make the desired changes.
4. Click the "Save" button on the lower right side of the screen.

### Formatting Links

1. Use double square brackets to link to pages or images within the Target Birds wiki.
2. For example, `[[Target Birds Wiki]]` creates a link to the front page like this: Target Birds Wiki.
3. You can use a pipe symbol | to make the link display different text than the name of the page: `[[Target Birds Wiki|front page]]` turns into front page.
4. You may see some links styled as `[[w:c:target-birds:Target Birds Wiki|front page]]`. They will also work, but the "w:c:target-birds:" part is unnecessary. (This syntax can be used to link to other Fandom wikis.)
5. `[[Bloom.png]]` creates a thumbnail of that image.
6. You can see more about formatting with wikitext at Help:Wikitext.

## Style Guidelines

Creating new pages and editing existing pages to fit style guidelines allows the Target Bird Wiki to be more cohesive and useful for Wiki users. Below are some guidelines for style.

1. Name Target Bird pages after the name of the Target Bird that is on its left leg unless the bird is unnamed.
2. Use gender neutral language about the birds. (Example: They/them/it) Target has not released official gender of any of the birds.
3. If there are birds with duplicate names, add parentheses at the end of the bird name with the collection of the bird. (Example: Radley (Valentine's Day 2022))
4. Use the front-facing Target stock image for the main photo for each bird if available. If one is not available, try to find an image of the bird that is front facing with a light background.

## Templates

* Target Bird Template
* Target Mini Bird Template
* Target Bird Accessory Template