Changes: Portal:Community

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Welcome to the WoWWiki community portal!

The community portal is where the WoWWiki community comes together to organize and discuss projects for the wiki.

You can help build WoWWiki into a better information source by editing and creating new articles.
If you create an account, you can track your changes, and more!
See Help for assistance or ask us a question.
The forums are where we discuss operations, policies, technical and content issues.
We also have an IRC channel! Channel info / IRC link

You can find out more general information about the wiki on the WoWWiki:About page.

Recent announcements
Community Corner _e
WoW is having a welcome back weekend... ...for returning players from March 21 to 24!
Migration to `*.fandom.com` ...is complete.
Fandom is seeking Volunteer Curators... Show what you know of the Warcraft universe!
Where to help WoWWiki!
Travel to Kul Tiras or Zandalar with Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Inlinegfx/img_link_data.json' not found. Battle for Azeroth!
Are you enjoying Island Expeditions and Warfronts?
Do you like the jump-gliding Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Classlink/link_icon_data.json' not found.?
WoWWiki needs experts and moderators! Are you addicted to WoWWiki? An expert in some Warcraft topic? See the list of topics and signup, if you think you're an expert! Want to start learning the ropes toward becoming an admin? Apply to be a Moderator!
Check out the latest site improvements! Added functionality and aesthetics!
Feedback and forums
Report bad ads!
Join the WoWWiki friends Facebook group! Follow WoWWiki on Twitter!
Visit the forums to ask for help and give your feedback.
For questions and feedback about WoWWiki, visit the general forum, news and policy forum, or technical forum.
To talk about Warcraft lore, visit the Warcraft lore forum.
For help and questions with World of Warcraft, visit the World of Warcraft forum.
For questions and feedback about other Warcraft games, visit the Other Warcraft games forum.

Things to do

So you want to help out? Great!: There's always loads of things to do on WoWWiki!; WoWWiki has a huge number of readers, but a relatively low proportion of editors - this means everyone is valued :); See the Community page for a small selection of tasks you can help out with.; You can also browse the entire Things to do category!

What do we do?: WoWWiki is a wiki dedicated to cataloguing the entirety of Blizzard Entertainment's Warcraft universe, covering all the Warcraft games, novels, RPG books and other media. Please note we are not affiliated with Blizzard or Wikipedia.; This means everything we cover is related to Warcraft - anything off-topic will likely be deleted.; To find out more about what we are and what we do, please visit WoWWiki:About.

Remember: Stay on topic.; Avoid personal opinions in articles.; Respect the viewpoints of others when discussing changes.; Be careful what personal info you give out.

Vote!: Nominate and discuss featured articles!; Take a look at the votes in progress!

Expand!: Expand and categorise some stubs!; Fulfil some image requests!; Write a new article that's on the the wanted list!

Edit and fix!: Work on merge candidates!; Some pages need to be cleaned up.; Others just need to be wikified.; Link pages from Special:Lonelypages back into WoWWiki.; ... or categorizing some uncategorized pages?; Update out-of-date articles!; Fix some misspellings.

Or browse the entire Things to do category!

Projects

If you are looking for a way to help the wiki, one good way is to contribute your time to the projects being worked on by users of WoWWiki. WoWWiki projects are a place for like minded people to work on areas of the wiki!
Find out more on WoWWiki:Projects!

Some individual projects

Warlock project, started by DuTempete.
Mage project, started by Piumosso-Uldum.
Zone category project, started by Jiyambi.
Kill the evil categories.
Quest list project.
Character appearances section project.

Mini projects

Convert all appropriate tables to "darktable" - see WW:MOS#Tables for guidelines.
Fix article message boxes - see WW:MOS#Article message boxes for guidelines.
Clean up the Newbie guides - especially formatting, naming and combined format.

Got a project of your own? [Add it here!]

Discussion on WoWWiki

Got something to say? Here's what to do!

If it's something not related to the content of a specific article, please visit our forums at:

Special:Forum

If it's specific to an article, please visit the talk page of that article.

These are normally in the form [[Talk:ARTICLE]]

If you want to send a message to an individual user, please use their talk page.

These are in the form [[User talk:USERNAME]]

When discussing stuff please remember the following

Please sign and date your posts by typing four tildes (~~~~).
Put new text under old text.
If you're new to the wiki, please take a look at our Talk page guidelines.
Be specific about what you discussing.
Be polite, assume good faith, and be welcoming

WoWWiki guidelines and policies

WoWWiki guidelines

Be bold!

Resources: Editing quickref; How to edit a page; Special pages; Templates (All); WoWWiki:Boilerplates (All) • Bot requests; WoWWiki administrators

WoWWiki policies

Player character pages

Policy status and phases

Selected essays: Don't bite the noobs; The perfect article; The wiki spirit

General wiki help

General info: About WoWWiki; WoWWiki FAQ; WoWWikians

Questions and answers: Where to ask a question; WoWWiki forums

Site administration: Administrators; How to contact us; All pages in the WoWWiki category

General info: General usage & editing help; Category-based access to help pages; How to edit a page; WoWWiki:Manual of Style

Common procedures: Deleting a page (Policy); Naming policies; Moving (renaming) a page

WoWWiki account maintenance: Account benefits; Help:Preferences

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