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Welcome to the Valve Developer Community! This is a knowledge base that is being written collaboratively by people from around the world. The following articles contain guidance and information about reading, authoring, and participating in the community.

MediaWiki and Wikipedia resources

The VDC uses MediaWiki, an open source 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.

How to contribute to VDC

Wikipedia:Contributing FAQ
Wikipedia:Editing FAQ
Wikipedia:Tutorial
Wikipedia:How to edit a page, including markup details.

General information

Special pages

Many useful functions are available from the list of Special Pages.

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-Untill someone can be buggered putting on of these up, heres a link to help using another wiki
+Welcome to the Valve Developer Community! This is a knowledge base that is being written collaboratively by people from around the world. The following articles contain guidance and information about reading, authoring, and participating in the community.
-[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents MediaWiki's Help page].
-Alot of the useful features can be found here: [http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Special:Specialpages Special Pages]
+== MediaWiki and Wikipedia resources ==
+The VDC uses [http://www.mediawiki.org MediaWiki], an open source engine licensed under the [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU GPL]. The largest array of resources for learning how to use MediaWiki can be found at the largest wiki using the engine, [http://en.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia].
+=== How to contribute to VDC ===
+*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contributing_FAQ Wikipedia:Contributing FAQ]
+*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing_FAQ Wikipedia:Editing FAQ]
+*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial Wikipedia:Tutorial]
+*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page Wikipedia:How to edit a page], including markup details.
+=== General information ===
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ Wikipedia:FAQ]
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents Wikipedia Help]
+* [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents MediaWiki Help]
+=== Special pages ===
+Many useful functions are available from the list of [http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Special:Specialpages Special Pages].