Feed The Beast Wiki:Getting started

Welcome to the Feed The Beast Wiki! If you are interested in contributing to this wiki, you are in the right place; this guide is meant to get you up and editing like a pro.

Basic wiki help
At the Feed The Beast Wiki, we expect our users to at least have a basic understanding of MediaWiki and "wikitext". However, don't worry if you don't! Several resources exist to help, including MediaWiki and Gamepedia's Help Wiki.

Your first item/block page
On this wiki, about 90% of the articles are copied from existing pages. Why? It's quite simple; the formatting on 90% of the articles are structured the same. Below is a boilerplate of the wikitext in an "average" page.

Dirt is a block added by the Vanilla mod.

Recipe
(this will produce something like this, although the navigation box and categories are cut out)

Components
This simple page is made of only a few parts:
 * The infobox (Infobox). An infobox gives basic information on the block or item. You may notice another template being used in this section- Gc. More will be expanded about grids later.
 * The lead section. This may, in fact, be the only section, but it is almost always the most important. According to the Article creation guideline, the lead section should describe almost all of the info described in the initial infobox.
 * The recipe section. Rather then using screenshots, this wiki has many special templates for displaying crafting recipes. Again, more will be expanded about grids later.
 * The footer. This includes the navbox ("navigation box"), categories and a language bar.

Variantions
As it happens, different editors have different formatting styles. The more notable variations are listed here.
 * Section headers: two spaces are often used inside of no spaces, like in  as verse  . This called "2space style", with no spaces being called "wiktionary style".
 * The footer: various components of the footer are often scrunched together, as in below.


 * "Stacked" categories- as in below.

It is encouraged you use whatever variations you find to be more aesthetically pleasing.