Feed The Beast Wiki:Community portal

Before you start
Please read the following articles before you start contributing to this wiki: Some knowledge of the wiki markup is recommended though it is not required for editing articles.
 * Username Policy
 * Help:Editing
 * Manual of Style

How you can join the wiki team
Members that create quality content and are helpful around the wiki can apply for a position on this page.

What you can do
We strive to deliver quality and accurate content, in order to do so, we will only allow verified and accurate information to be put in the main article space. Before a bot is employed to verify data provided in articles, the main content and article namespaces will not be open to the public for editing. Instead you can contribute to the wiki in the following forms.

Create new content
The wiki team tries the best to deliver the most accurate and detailed content to you, but in some cases that you can't find what you're looking for or have an idea for a new article, please feel free to create such articles inside the Articles for Creation namespace or request the article to be created here. To submit your new article, place an AFC submission on your article, your proposed article will be reviewed, verified then will be moved to the main article namespace, for instructions and details on submitting articles, read this article. You will be credited for your work after it is created.

Stubs and pages needing styling
Some articles we created before may lack content or formatting, if you find such articles, you can report them here, you can also help improving it. Create a page with the same page name including the namespace in the AfC namespace (example: User:Jinbobo -> AfC:User:Jinbobo), then copy and paste the original content into it and start editing it, more details here. File an AFC submission when you're finished with improving it, you can see how here, it will go through standard verification process and will be moved back to the main article namespace. Credits will go to most major contributors (determined by the reviewer).

Updating pages
Data on pages may get outdated as mods update, if you spot such data, please report them on this page. A solution to this will be crafted shortly.

Translation
We hope that the data on this wiki can be accessed by users from all around the world, visit the translation department for more details and instructions. Please specify your level of languages by using the template.

Guidelines

 * Project:Translation portal
 * Project:Translation guideline

Tasks for the wiki team
If you're on the wiki team, there are various tasks beside creating articles and reviewing AFC submissions to do.

Template documentation
If you have the ability to view complex wiki markup, you can help us document templates, play around with the parameters and create examples for templates.

Reported issues
You can also help resolve issues pointed out by the community. Please update the issue count on the top of the page when resolving or adding issues, also remember to move resolved issues to the archive.

Tasks for administrators
Administrators has an extended set of permissions that allow them to do various tasks, requested tasks can be seen here.

Deletion requests
Deletion requires consensus of the community, if it the deletion request is disputed, administrators can take action upon it. Certain articles that matches certain criteria defined on this Wikipedia page are eligible for speedy deletion, when requesting for speeding deletions, a reason must be specified or else the page will not be deleted.

Administrators' Noticeboard
Tasks or issues that require adminstrators' attention will be posted on the administrators' noticeboard, it is recommended that admins check this page regularly.