Default Loadout Wiki
Welcome to wiki.gg!
Your wiki has been prepared with several templates and CSS pages that will help you get started.
1. If you haven't yet,
please log in (help, how do I log in?) (you will need to create a new account if you haven't previously edited wiki.gg wikis). If your wiki has been imported and you've had an account on the original site, please claim your username instead.
2. Get administrator rights
Leave your wiki user name in your on-boarding channel, so we may grant you administrator permissions. If you have a team of several people, only those editing site styles or the front page, or deleting pages will need admin.
If your account was imported, it must be reclaimed first.
3. Start making pages!
Whether we're helping you with your styling or you're making your own theme, you can start making pages now! You can start with an "About" page, and then see the help article on infoboxes for how to make infoboxes.
4. Setting up the main page
- Pick one of the example main pages and "move" (under the "More" dropdown in the upper-right-hand corner of your window) it to
Default Loadout Wiki.- It'll ask you if you're sure you want to move the page since there's some content here now. You should say yes, delete the content. You can access this content on the support wiki at any point in the future.
- Here are the main pages you can pick from & move to
Default Loadout Wiki:
- Visit Special:AllPages and delete any example pages you no longer need. If you want, you can do this in bulk with Special:Nuke, entering the pattern
Example %. Limit it to the namespace(Main), the first option in the "namespace" dropdown.
5. Theming
- Use Special:Upload to upload a favicon called
Site-favicon.ico. This icon is shown on your browser's tab bar, next to the page's title. It should be 48x48px and look good at 16x16px. - Use Special:Upload to upload a wiki logo called
Site-logo.png. For most wikis, this should be 160x160px. - Protect the favicon and the logo, so only administrators may edit and replace them.
- Customize your theme by editing the variables at MediaWiki:Common.css. Remember to use Ctrl+F5 or Ctrl+Shift+R to cache-refresh in your browser after making any changes!
- Pages in the "MediaWiki" namespace are protected by default, and only your wiki's administrators can edit them.
- You may want to learn how to use your browser's dev tools to help in styling.
- Remember to protect any additional files you upload for your theme!
6. Sidebar links
Edit MediaWiki:Sidebar to customize the navigation menu on the left. You can remove the "Customizing this wiki" section if you want, but you may want to bookmark those links first.
Frequently asked questions
How do I make a new page?
Click New page on the sidebar to the left. This link will always be visible from the sidebar, and you can also bookmark that page if you want.
How do I rename a page?
In the upper-right-hand corner of the page there's a dropdown menu. Renaming in MediaWiki is called "moving" so click "Move" and you'll be able to choose a new name.
When should I make the wiki public?
As soon as possible! We require you to have a logo uploaded called Site-logo.png and a favicon uploaded called Site-favicon.ico. (Ignore any warnings you see when uploading those two files.)
You may also want to customize your theme a bit and replace the contents of this page with your own main page content. But once there is even 1 content page, people can start finding your wiki useful, so you should plan to "release" it as soon as possible. We like for wikis to take at most one month to prepare to be public, but many wikis are ready within a week and that's awesome!
How can someone else edit this wiki?
If you want them to help out now, while you're in onboarding, then send them the same link you used to join the Discord server. If they need to edit CSS or create Cargo tables, you can also request that we give them Administrator privileges. If you want them to help edit after the wiki is public, then all they have to do is make an account, and if they need Admin you can request it in the wiki.gg Discord server.
How do I stop others from editing my wiki?
By default, wiki.gg doesn't allow anonymous (logged-out) editing (although if you want to enable that we can, let us know!). Therefore, we do not recommend taking any steps to stop other people from editing your wiki. The only pages you should protect are this one (the main page) & any files used in your theme (logo, favicon, background)! But if an edit war does break out and you need to restrict editing, you can go to the "More" dropdown in the upper-right corner of the page interface and then click "Protect." We recommend setting a duration of one month or less.
How do I get extensions installed?
Let us know what extensions you need in your onboarding Discord channel. If possible, please try to make all your requests at once, so we can get to them all easily.
How can I see the info on this page after I delete it?
We have a mirror on our support wiki, you can bookmark that :)
I want to rename my account!
If you reclaimed your account from another hosting site & want to rename, we can help you with that! Ask us to do it at the time that your wiki goes live, since we'll be continuing to mirror edits from the old platform until that time.
I looked at the source of this main page, why is there so much inline CSS?
We intend for you to delete this page ASAP, therefore it's coded in a way to make deletion very easy (with no extra styles left over in MediaWiki:Common.css). We do NOT recommend taking this approach (with inline styles & variables) on your own pages!!!!! Remember you can always view this content on the support wiki (you may want to bookmark that page).