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This page is about editing the VDC wiki. To learn about Source, mapping, modding, etc, read the Source SDK Documentation. For questions and answers, see Help Desk and the Source SDK FAQ.

Newcomer's page editing links

• How to edit VDC pages
• Information on cleaning up articles to reach a higher level of quality
• How to add images to articles
• Information on writing a profile page for a mod
• Deletion policy and how to mark something that needs to be deleted

Contributor's quick links

• VDC To Do list
  • Category:Cleanup
  • Category:Screenshot needed
  • Articles to be merged
  • Category:Stubs
  • Category:TODO
• Templates
• Wikipedia: Table markup
• Special maintenance pages
  • All Categories list
  • Your Watchlist
• Protected page
• Requests for page protection

Admin's quick links

• VDC administration pages

Valve Developer Community editing resources

A simple editing tutorial is available at Help:Editing. Information on page cleanup is found at Help:Cleanup. Information on images and how to add them to articles is found at Help:Images. For ideas on some areas where you can contribute, check out the Wiki To Do List. Also, many useful functions are available from the list of Special Pages.

Wikipedia and MediaWiki resources

The VDC uses MediaWiki, an open source wiki engine licensed under the GNU GPL. The largest array of resources for learning how to use MediaWiki can be found at the largest wiki using the engine, Wikipedia.

• Wikipedia Help — main Wikipedia help menu
• Wikipedia: Tutorial — a series of introductionary articles, each page discusses one useful feature of the wiki software.
• Wikipedia: How to edit a page — comprehensive guide on editing MediaWiki sites, including markup details.
• Wikipedia FAQ — answers questions commonly asked about Wikipedia.
  • Wikipedia: Contributing FAQ — answers questions commonly asked by contributors to Wikipedia.
  • Wikipedia: Editing FAQ — answers the most common questions about editing Wikipedia.