Help:Discussion
This page is intended for people who would like to help out with the Lagoon is Fun wiki, but aren't quite sure how to go about it. It has been written with Lagoon is Fun forum users in mind.
Discussion on the wiki
While there are many things that you can do to help, one of the most important and rewarding things you can do is simply joining in the discussion.
Every single page on this wiki has both an informational page (like this one) that you are familiar with if you've ever read an article on Wikipedia, and a discussion area.
To access a given page's discussion area, just use the tabs at the top of the page. For example, to access the discussion area for Puff the Little Fire Dragon, go to the Puff the Little Fire Dragon page and click "Discussion" at the top of that page.
The discussion area is used to ask questions about, or suggest changes to the pages. If there's something that you'd like to see here, or a change you think should be made, but you don't want to jump in and create or rewrite a page, just add your thoughts in the discussion area and we can all help decide the best direction to take.
The discussion area works slightly differently than a forum. You post to it by directly editing the discussion page, so there's a couple of extra things to keep in mind.
If the page you're viewing hasn't had any discussion yet, the discussion area will be blank. You will be given the opportunity to create the discussion page from scratch. If there has been discussion already, you can use either the "edit" or "add topic" tabs at the top of the discussion area to post your thoughts.
Each topic on a discussion page should have a headline and every post should have your signature. If you don't sign it, we won't know who wrote it! A headline can be created by surrounding the name of your topic with two equals signs on each side. You can sign your posts by typing four tildes (That's the ~ character).
A post in the discussion area should be formatted like this:
== Topic Headline == Discussion Discussion Discussion ˜˜˜˜
Alternatively, using the "add topic" tab will format your headline for you. You will still need to sign your posts.
Don't worry too much about accidentally messing something up, mistakes are easy to fix on a wiki.
A good way to keep up with what's going on here is by clicking the "Recent changes" link in the left margin of any page. If you choose Namespace:Talk and click "Go" from that page you will see all the latest discussions. It's a lot like checking the latest posts on a forum.
...To be continued...