Beginners make mistakes. Beginners, usually referred to as "new users", make errors. In fact, all users make mistakes, but beginners almost always make mistakes.
How can a beginner not make a mistake? There's a lot to know about contributing to a wiki, and a lot that could go wrong; looking through existing examples, guidelines and guides can minimize this, but sometimes there being more to consider only makes it more confusing.
So, don't feel bad if you make a beginner's mistake! Part of learning is making mistakes. How can you improve without any? Any editor that's ever contributed new content have all had their errors. Don't be proud of your mistake, but don't be too embarrassed of it; everyone makes them!
Staff members' beginning mistakes
- Chocohead's first article had an incorrect category and was missing a language bar.
- Most of TheSatanicSanta's early contributions contained tonal and grammar issues.
- Retep998's first article lacked a language bar and categories. It also has tonal issues.
- One of PaladinAHOne's early articles contained an incorrect parameter and value, as well as contained a broken infobox icon.
- 3tusk's first translation overrided the English translation (the page now at Mod Compatibility (GregTech)/zh-cn, entitled "格雷科技的Mod兼容性").
- Xbony2's first article was missing the navigation box, categories, and a language bar, and it also contained several grammatical mistakes.
- (Former) Padfoote's first article had bad parameter values and categories.
- (Former) Enoch5's first articlce was a stub, and had incorrect links.