Free Games Wiki:Newbie resources

Newbie resources


 * If you are new to wikis, you may want to read the tutorial on the Central Wikia.
 * There is some advice on getting this wiki started at Help:Starting this wiki.
 * A list of most help pages can be found in Category:Help.

How to help out

 * If you want to help but you're not sure where to start, try improving the various stub articles by adding content.
 * Another helpful activity would be to check the list of wanted pages for frequently linked-to articles that don't exist yet.
 * To follow the changes to this wiki, and to look out for new users and edits use recent changes.
 * You can find a list of useful templates on Category:Templates, some of which are documented on    :Templates.
 * If you need help editing, you could start with Help:Editing or the tutorial on the Central Wikia.

Want to discuss stuff?

 * If you want to discuss anything specific to an article, you can use the talk page for that article.
 * For more general discussions you can use the Discussion tab of this page, or a Forum if the forums have been set up.

Things to do

 * Useful activities
 * Help expand some article stubs.
 * Locate and mark pages that need expanding as article stubs.
 * Create links to some orphaned pages.
 * Upload and add some images! Visit Special:Upload. Add them to a category too, like [[:Category:Images ]].
 * Write a new article that's on the the wanted list!
 * Fix any double redirects by redirecting the first page to the third page.
 * Check for broken redirects and either mark them for deletion or find a more appropriate target.
 * Consider splitting up very long pages into different pages or subpages.
 * Create some links on dead end pages.
 * Add more...


 * Other useful special pages
 * Special:BrokenRedirects
 * Special:DoubleRedirects
 * Special:ProblemReports
 * Special:Uncategorizedcategories
 * Special:Uncategorizedimages
 * Special:Uncategorizedpages
 * Special:Unusedimages
 * Special:Wantedcategories
 * Check out the full list of special pages at Special:Specialpages.

Some other interesting pages

 * Want to find out what you've done so far? Visit your contributions page.
 * Find out more about the wiki on Special:Statistics and Special:Version!