Fandom Guide

# A helpful Guide to all things Fandom

Hello! If you're here (either through searching or complete accident), then you probably have some difficulties with the more technical part of Fandom.

Don't worry! I'm here to help you along. If you have any specific questions don't be afraid to reach out to somelaggydude on Discord.

Here's a summary of all things mentioned in chronological order.

1. Editing
2. Creating Pages
3. Deleting Pages (includes Purge)
4. Moving Pages (Includes Protect)
5. Source Editing
6. Admin Dashboard (of which Top Nav, Recent Changes, Analytics and Theme Designer)

Let's get started!

### ***Editing***

As the subtitle suggests, editing is the act of correcting information. You'll want to use this if there's any information missing or incorrect.

To edit a page, you'll first want to head on over to a page with missing or false information. Then, at the right side of the title, you should see a pencil icon with the word "edit" next to it. Then, you'll have to click on it. The editor works just like a word document. You correct the data, then save. Congratulations! You just edited a page.

### ***Creating Pages***

Sometimes, whole subjects are missing! In this case, you'll want to *create a page*.

First, you'll want to head on over to the Top. Then, on the right side, you'll see three dots. If you hover over them, you'll get a menu of options. The one you're looking for is "Add new page". After you've clicked on it, you'll be given a prompt. Just enter the title of your new page, and you'll immediately be sent there into the Editor, ready to fill in the blank page!

(Note: If you create a page, but keep it empty, it is then automatically removed.)

### ***Deleting Pages***

Got a page that shouldn't exist? Just delete it!

To delete a page, you'll want to find the three dots *next to* the edit button (see Editing). You'll see a menu pop up, with the option to Delete.

Delete in fandom removes all of the page's history and data. (In English, the entire page is wiped.) However, as long as something links to the page, it is still accessible. It is also customary to add a reason as to why you wiped a page (i.e to prevent it from being reverted). Just a simple "Content was no longer canon" or "Content was irrelevant to the Outcasts" will do.

In the same menu, you'll find the *Purge* option. Purge allows you to revert all changes and restore a page back to it's most current revision. This is useful in raids or a troll messing up pages.

### ***Moving Pages***

Made a small mistake in the title? Call the Movers!

Move is basically another word for Rename in Fandom. What it does is it creates a new page at the correct version of the title, moves all of the data of the incorrect title to the correct one, and deletes the incorrect one.

To find Move, it's in the same three dot menu as discussed in *Deleting Pages*. Then, you fill in the correct title, add a reason as to why you did it, and click Move Page.

You probably also have noticed Protect by now. What Protect does is it locks the page, preventing anyone except those with the right privileges to edit or do anything to the page. To do this, you just click Protect, click which privileges are required to bypass Protect, and you're done.

### ***Source Editing***

Now we're heading in deep. In Fandom, there are 2 types of Editors. Visual Editor, which is a user-friendly yet more restricting editor. And Source Editor, with no restrictions, but requires some knowledge with the HTML coding language.

Feeling like you're up to the task? I like your nerve. To switch over to Source Editor, you'll want to Edit, then at the top right you'll see "Visual Editor". Click on it, then you'll see Source Editing. Then click on Source Editing. Good luck!

### ***Admin Dashboard***

This section assumes you have Administrator privileges. The Admin Dashboard is only accessible to those with Administrator permissions.

To find Admin Dashboard, you'll have to look at the bottom right of your screen. You should see a bar with (un)watch, My Tools, Customize... The one you're looking for is Admin. Click on it, and you'll be taken to the Dashboard.

Within the Dashboard, there are a bunch of things you can do.

#### ***Top Navigation***

Top Nav allows you to change the top of the wiki. This only utilizes Source Editing.

Let me help you through the source spaghetti. It basically work like an onion.

* \* means you'll go a layer deeper.
* # means you'll add an option, but make it unclickable
* \*example means you're a layer deep, and clicking on that will take you to the category "example"
* | means you're giving another name to the option (I.e \*example | example2). It will still take you to example, but it just appears as example2.

So, \*\*#test means you're 2 layers deep, and the option is untraversable.

\*test | example means you're linking it to test, but you're giving the option the name "example".

#### ***Recent Changes***

Recent Changes allows you to see what's recently changed, and on what page. This is useful to help prevent misinformation, and catch the perpetrator.

#### ***Analytics***

Self-explanatory. It shows you analytics such as whether some of the traffic is a mobile device or computer, how many views all pages have received, what browser was used, edits per day, etc.

***Theme Designer***

Theme Designer allows you to modify the theme of the wiki. I'd suggest racking up some experience in graphical design before trying this. And unfortunately I cannot help you with this. I'm sorry.

Alright! That was it. Hope that explained everything! This was SomeLaggyDude, signing off. And I wish you good luck, next wiki Master.