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<div class="tab-item-title">[[Admin Central:Guide to Admin Dashboard|Guide to Admin Dashboard]]</div>
 
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Once you have founded a wiki or are appointed to being an admin or bureaucrat on a wiki, there are a few key places on your wiki that you should familiarize yourself with. These places help admins and founders manage, monitor and edit. They are by far the most used areas for admins:
 
*Rich Text Editor
 
*Wiki Activity and Recent Changes
 
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*Admin Dashboard
 
Within this Guide, we'll walk through the '''Admin Dashboard''' and how to use it.
 
 
[[Admin Central:Guide to Admin Dashboard|Read More >]]
 
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<div class="tab-item-title">[[Admin Central:Guide to Achievements|Guide to Achievements]]</div>
 
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When I first started editing the My Little Pony Wiki, I was thrilled to earn my first achievement badge! Day after day I would edit on MLP a little here and a little there. Each day, I'd scan the list of top contributors on the leaderboard (Special:Leaderboard) to see my name slowly start to rise. It was thrilling and exciting. I felt like I was helping the community to a better place by adding categories and editing articles. Some people pride themselves on edit counts which is great, but I try to focus on specific goals -- that's why I love achievements.
 
 
Achievements are a great way to customize your wiki while also encouraging editors to contribute more. Each achievement is awarded based on of a variety of things. And each achievement can be customized to fit the need of your wiki.
 
 
[[Admin Central:Guide to Achievements|Read More >]]
 
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<div class="tab-item-title">[[Admin Central:Guide to Recent Changes|Guide to Recent Changes]]</div>
 
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Recent Changes — or as it's sometimes referred to as 'RC' — is much like Wiki Activity. They both track contributions on a wiki. But Recent Changes records all of the activity. It's more of a technical feed of everything that's taking place on a wiki. With Recent Changes, you can actually see everything that is happening. Don't have a lot of activity on your wiki yet? That's ok too. Recent Changes is also really helpful to look back and find something you did, uploaded or added. It's a quick short cut to seeing what's happening on your wiki and all of the wikis you are stopping by to check out.
 
 
Let's go over what all these numbers, characters and information mean. As you can see there is a lot of info and if you have no idea what you are reading -- it can be a little confusing and daunting.
 
 
[[Admin Central:Guide to Recent Changes|Read More >]]
 
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<div class="tab-item-title">[[Admin Central:Guide to Wiki Activity|Guide to Wiki Activity]]</div>
 
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Wikis by nature have a lot of activity on them. Once a wiki starts to attract a community, whether that's two or three people or hundreds of people, a lot of action can happen over any period of time. Editing, uploading an image, writing a blog post, leaving a comment, adding a new page, asking a question in a forum—so much can happen! Because anyone can come and edit (and add any of the above contributions and more) it’s useful to be able to find all of that activity in one place.
 
 
As a good admin, it's important to monitor the activity on your wiki for a number of reasons. The main reason is to see what is being added and edited. This is your space, your community—it's important to see what exactly is being edited and by whom. Two tools used to keep track of wiki changes are Wiki Activity and Recent Changes. Both of these features are useful tools for this task.
 
 
[[Admin Central:Guide to Wiki Activity|Read More >]]
 
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<div class="tab-item-title">[[Admin Central:Guide:Getting to Know Wiki Text|Getting to Know Wiki Text]]</div>
 
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When editing, leaving comments or posting on wikis you'll need to know the basics of wikitext. It's true we have our awesome editor that helps with editing, but there are times where you'll need to edit using wiki text. Such situations can occur when leaving comments on blogs or article pages or when a page is only editable in source mode.
 
 
Wikipedia defines wiki text or wiki markup as a lightweight markup language used to write pages in wiki websites. It is a simplified alternative/intermediate to HTML. Its ultimate purpose is to be converted by wiki software into HTML, which in turn is served to web browsers.
 
 
[[Admin Central:Guide:Getting to Know Wiki Text|Read More >]]
 
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Layout Changes
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Mobile Friendly Main Pages

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Brandon Rhea Brandon Rhea 2 June 2016
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Why Social Media is Important For Communities

Wikians are often at the epicenter of their favorite fandoms. You represent the biggest experts there are, not to mention that you have some of the most intense passions for pop culture in the world. That's why it's not very surprising to know that social media is an important tool for your community. What better way is there to talk to other fans and let them know about your community?

Every day, we talk to fans on our own brand accounts, @getfandom and @Wikia, and we've learned a great deal ab…

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Mira Laime Mira Laime 24 February 2016
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How to Deal With a Bad Bureaucrat

We’ve given plenty of advice in the past on how to deal with trolls, annoying users, and bad admins. But what if that user who is upsetting the community is a bureaucrat, and can delete anything and block anyone they like?


  • 1 Try diplomacy first
  • 2 When to get a bureaucrat demoted
  • 3 How to get a bureaucrat demoted
  • 4 Bureaucrat trouble in very small communities


As in any dispute, the best option is to talk it out: Stay calm, assume your bureaucrat isn’t evil, but just coming from a different point of view,…



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SEOkitten SEOkitten 26 October 2015
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The Importance of Images

Greetings, Wikians!


One common SEO question at Wikia is about the impact images have on rankings. Search engine algorithms are not public and most look at hundreds of unique factors, but correlation studies have shown pages that include properly tagged, relevant images often rank higher than pages that do not.

Google and other search engines are getting better at understanding the relationship between images and other on-page content, but search bots cannot understand the images themselves. Happi…


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SEOkitten SEOkitten 28 September 2015
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Using Keywords Without Stuffing or Spamming


Hello, Wikians!

I introduced some simple keyword research tools in the previous SEO blog post; this time I want to discuss how to include those keywords on the page for maximum impact on search rankings and user experience.

The internet was less sophisticated in the mid to late ‘90s. During the Geocities era, it became a common practice to “optimize” pages using spammy blocks of unrelated keywords or sentences stuffed with synonyms and close match variations.

In the attempt to adhere to this outda…


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