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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.

Valve Developer Community resources

How to contribute to VDC

A simple editing tutorial is available at Help with Editing. Please note that it is a work in progress; you may find the links below to be more comprehensive.

Special pages

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

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 a wiki

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

General information about wiki use

• Wikipedia:FAQ
• Wikipedia Help
• MediaWiki Help