Meta:Community Portal

Welcome to the GF Wiki!

We are a community of women and allies from various geek communities, from professional fields like Science and Open Source Software to hobbies like Gaming and Science Fiction fandom.

This page is a space for wiki editors, that is, the people who write the wiki. If you as a reader want to discuss an individual page, please click on the "Talk" button on that page.

Get involved

Welcome! This wiki is publicly editable, and we welcome contributions from anyone who's willing to follow our editorial guidelines.

Some things you can do:

• Create a page for a geeky, feminist topic you're interested in. See Special:WantedPages for some that we need.
• Improve a page by adding information, pictures, links, or anything else of use. See Category:Article stubs for pages that need this.
• Add to the Timeline of incidents or Timeline of geek feminism with recent events.

Suggested reading for new editors

If you are new here, please read the following pages, which will help you understand a variety of fundamental concepts:

• Geek Feminism Wiki FAQ
• Feminism 101
• Resources for allies

General resources for GF wiki editors

Policies

• Meta:Editorial guidelines
• Meta:Style guide

Vandalism

• Meta:Reporting Vandalism alert the admins to vandalism in progress
• Meta:Permanently protected pages for pages that are semi- or fully protected from editing by anon and new users

Changing the front page

• Meta:Featured articles propose and schedule featured articles for the wiki front page.
• Meta:Front page links for how articles end up on the "Wiki content" lists on the front page
• Meta:Find out more for how new pages end up in the "Find out more" section

Editor discussion forum

If you have a question about a particular page, please click the "Talk" link on that page. For general discussion or questions about the wiki, please leave a message on Talk:Meta:Community Portal.

Resources for new GF wiki editors

New to wikis?

• If you are new to wikis, you may want to read the tutorial on the Central Wikia.
• A list of most help pages can be found in Category:Help.

How to start helping out

• For information about how we write and what we write about, review our Editorial guidelines
• If you want to help but you're not sure where to start, try improving the various stub articles by adding content.
• Another helpful activity would be to check the list of wanted pages for frequently linked-to articles that don't exist yet.
• To follow the changes to this wiki, and to look out for new users and edits use recent changes.
• You can find a list of useful templates on Category:Templates, some of which are documented on Project:Templates.
• If you need help editing, you could start with Help:Editing or the tutorial on the Central Wikia.

Want to discuss stuff?

• If you want to discuss anything specific to an article, you can use the talk page for that article.
• For more general discussions you can use the Discussion tab of this page.

Things to do

Specific projects on this wiki:

• Meta:Linkspam linking -- add links from the Geek Feminism blog's linkspams to relevant pages on this wiki

Here are some general wiki gardening tasks that would be useful:

Useful activities Help expand some article stubs. Locate and mark pages that need expanding as article stubs. Create links to some orphaned pages. Upload and add some images! Visit Special:Upload. Add them to a category too, like [[Category:Images]]. Write a new article that's on the the wanted list! Create an article that's been suggested on the Brainstorming Page, or suggest your own! Consider splitting up very long pages. Create some links on dead end pages. Add more...

Other useful special pages Special:BrokenRedirects Special:DoubleRedirects Special:ProblemReports Special:Uncategorizedcategories Special:Uncategorizedimages Special:Uncategorizedpages Special:Unusedimages Special:Wantedcategories Check out the full list of special pages at Special:Specialpages.

Some other interesting pages

• Want to find out what you've done so far? Visit Special:Mycontributions.
• Find out more about the wiki on Special:Statistics and Special:Version!