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Hi Silvaril -- we are excited to have Northstar Wiki as part of the Wikia community!

Starting a new wiki can be a big job, but don't worry, the Wikia Community Team is here to help! We have put together a few guides to getting started. They say imitation is the best form of flattery so absolutely check out other wikis on Wikia for ideas on layout, ways to organize your content, etc. We are all one big family at Wikia and the most important thing is to have fun!

• Our guide to Getting Started gives you 5 things you can do right now to set your wiki up for success
• We also put together some Advice On Starting a Wiki which provides a more a in-depth look at some of the important things you should consider when building a wiki
• If you are new to wikis in general than we recommend checking our new user FAQ

If you need help (which trust me we ALL do) you can access our full in-depth help at Help Wikia, or email us through our contact form. Also, you can visit our live #wikia chat channel any time. A lot of the veteran "Wikians" hang out here so its a good place if come if you want to get some advice or simply make friends.

Now, go edit! We look forward to seeing this project thrive!

Best wishes, Angela

[edit] Hi there!

I'm Richard1990. I'm a Helper who specializes in Gaming Wikis. I want to cheer you on for having started a new gaming-related wiki, and see if there is anything I can help a fellow Wikian with. So if you need help with any thing, don't hesitate to ask!

I've got some tips for you here:

• Main Page protection – Wikia has a general policy of not protecting the Main Page unless it is the target of recurring heavy vandalism. For more info, check out Help:Main page on Wikia Help.
• Logo - If you need help making logos for your wiki, you can ask for help at this forum thread. For the Monaco and Monobook skin you can upload a 135 x 155 pixels image to Image:Wiki.png.
• Your user page – Use your user page to introduce yourself to other new visitors, so the wiki has a more personal feeling to it and luring visitors to stay and become involved. People without a userpage do not get listed in the "Featured users" listing no matter how active they are, so make sure you add something to your user page to appear in there!
• Wikia Gaming IRC – There is a Wikia gaming IRC channel, #wikia-gaming, where you can hop on, ask for help from users of other gaming wikis, or offer your own experiences. You can access it from http://irc.wikia.com/gaming, or connect to it by your own client at irc://irc.freenode.net/wikia-gaming. Different people may be on sporadically, though you're free to ask them for any help.

Again, if you have any question for anything at all, don't hesitate to ask me!--Richard 18:49, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Request for Assistance - TabView

What do you mean by a JS version that doesn't replace the ajax version? ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman^(Talk)

Wikia's TabView is an entire extension. That JS script is just a simple site script that applies YUI's TabView onto divs with a certain class. There is no way to make them compatible, the best you could do would be improve the Wikia extension, but last time I checked the techs weren't interested in making that do anything more than AJAX.

I really don't get the issue though... If you need a tab container with AJAX, then use the TabView extension's syntax, and if you need a tab container that properly falls back without JS, then use the site script. ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman^(Talk)

All you do to use the script is add a js include or the code itself into the Common.js for the wiki. And to use it just stick tabview into a div tag's class and use the title attribute for the tab's title.

Why would you change what it's called with? There is no point to that, it just uses css classes, and all it is, is a MediaWiki wrapper around YUI's TabView, so it uses a tabview class. ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman^(Talk)