Help: Contents

The purpose of this walkthrough is to help aspiring editors learn the ways of editing as soon as possible. We hope that these help files guide you greatly, and we look forward to seeing your future work on our project.

General Walkthroughs

Online Content — Information specifically about adding new Elder Scrolls Online articles

Reading

Navigation

Searching

Namespaces

Disambiguation Pages

New Editors

Getting Started — Information for new editors

Mentor Program — Mentors for new editors who would like one-on-one assistance

Helping Out — General suggestions for how to help contribute

Task List — More specific tasks that need to be done

Basic Editing

Quick Editing Guide

Editing Pages

Edit Summary

Show Preview

Page History

Starting New Pages

Formatting

Links

Advanced Editing

Images

Tables

Categories

Magic Words

Templates

Writing Templates

References

Other Topics

Determining a RefID

See Also

• Style Guide — General guidelines for how to write, format, and present pages
• The Sandbox — You can test out your editing at the sandbox
• Prizes — Think someone on the wiki is doing a good job? Then award them with a prize!
• Common Mistakes — Some of the more common mistakes that users make here, and how to avoid and fix them

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• Book Page Layout — The standard UESP layout for book articles
• NPC Page Layout — The standard UESP layout for NPC articles
• Place Page Layout — The standard UESP layout for place articles
• Quest Page Layout — The standard UESP layout for quest articles
• Spelling — Spelling rules for commonly misspelled words on UESPWiki
• Lore — Guidelines for articles in the Lore namespace

External Links

Note: UESP generally follows Wikipedia style. Where guidelines differ, those on UESP policy and help pages should generally prevail.

• Wikipedia Manual of Style
• MediaWiki Help Page — General information on how to edit MediaWiki pages, including: building tables, controlling table of contents displays, and adding/using templates, etc.