Help:Contents

This article aims to provide useful information about using the Gentoo Wiki, listing resources for both readers and contributors to help find their way around.

For people looking for documentation for Gentoo, the main Gentoo Wiki page and the Handbook are good places to start. The Wiki project page has information about how the Wiki is run.

Reading

Reading the Wiki should be somewhat self-evident, it works much like most standard websites. More detailed information is provided here for more advanced use.

• Navigation

• Searching

• Tracking changes

• Watchlist

User preferences and pages

A user account has preferences that can change how the site is shown for that user, and user page to communicate with other users.

• Preferences

• Signatures

• User page

Editing

Please read the Official Gentoo wiki guidelines before making edits.

• Editing pages
• Formatting
• Links
• Official Gentoo wiki guidelines
• Starting a new page
• Talk pages
• Translating

Advanced editing

• Blueprints
• Bots
• Categories
• Deleting a page
• External searches
• Images
• Magic words
• Managing files
• Moving (renaming) a page
• Namespaces
• Redirects
• Patrolled edits
• Protected pages
• Special pages
• Subpages
• Tables
• Transclusion

Templates

Templates help layout standard or repetitive elements.

• Templates
• Template sandbox and test cases
• All templates
  • Embedded Pages
  • Formatting templates
  • InfoBox templates
  • License templates
  • Templates for templates

External resources

• Help:Contents at meta.wikimedia.org