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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
- 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.