Help:Contents

For support with the FlightGear flight simulator, see the user portal or browse the troubleshooting category.

Here are some help pages that might be useful when editing the wiki. Most of them are technical, regarding the use of the MediaWiki software itself; for a smoother introduction check the first three.

Reading

• Help:Main navigation elements – Navigation elements available on every wiki page
• Help:Tracking changes – Various ways to follow changes to the wiki and its pages
• Help:Namespaces – The various types of pages on the wiki
• Help:Glossary – Wiki terminology

Editing

• Help:Discussion pages – What discussion pages are and how to use them
• Help:Your first article – Where else would you start from?
• Help:Categories – Explains how to use them
• Help:Upload – A small guideline to image uploading
• Help:Maintenance – An overview of the maintenance work you can do in FlightGear wiki, and how.
• FlightGear wiki:Manual of Style – The style manual

Advanced editing

• Help:Formatting – A reference you'll keep open in a tab during your first edits.
• Help:Creating new categories
• Help:Tables – They deserve a separate page from the above one.
• Help:Preformatted text – Preformatted text and syntax highlighting.
• Help:Templates – These powerful tools can get complicated when you dig in.
• Help:Translate – Translation can be done by everyone!
• MediaWiki Help – Official help page from the MediaWiki project

Technical problems and requests

For requests or technical problems with the wiki/server, contact hellosimon at gmail com.