Help:Getting Started
Browsing ShadowrunWiki
On the left side of the page is a sidebar which contains numerous buttons. Directly under the site logo are the navigation buttons. The two buttons you should concern yourself with at the moment are "Home" and "Help & How-To". The Home button takes you to the Main Page and the Help button takes you to the Help page where you can learn more about using ShadowrunWiki.
The Main Page
The Main Pages is the best palce to start out if you aren't sure what you are looking for or just want to start looking around. Aa ShadowrunWiki grows, the Main Page will undoubtedly change in content and appearance.
The Search Bar
If you know what you're looking for, the fastest way to get there is the search bar. If you know the exact title of the page you want, type it in and click Go, and you'll automatically be taken to that page. If that page doesn't exist or you click Search, you'll be taken to a results page with a list of all the pages containing your search terms.
For example, typing in "Saeder-Krupp" and clicking Go will take you directly to the page for Saeder-Krupp, while clicking Search will show you a list of all pages that contain the words "Saeder" and "Krupp".
WikiLinks
On just about every page you look at, there will be numerous wikilinks - words or phrases colored blue or red. For example, the word wikilinks in this sentence is a wikilink.
A blue wikilink will take you to another page covering whatever topic the linked words are about. A red wikilink means that the corresponding page hasn't yet been created. Authors will sometimes link to a nonexistent page when they feel it needs to be created and plan to create it themselves later, or leave it for someone else to create.
Help:Citation
To display the references at the end of an article in the correct format, the References template should be used by inserting {{References}} at the appropriate place. For particularly long reference sections, it is possible to arrange the references into multiple columns. For example, to create two columns, you would enter {{References|2}}.
To allow the browser to decide the number of columns based on screen resolution, you can also specify a column width, e.g., {{References|Width=30em}}.
To insert references at the appropriate points in the article, it is best to add <ref>Source p.X</ref> at the end of the relevant information or section. "Source" should be a link to the article of the source, along with an appropriate page number. An overview of the abbreviations for the source template can be found [here (German sources)](URL_to_German_sources) and [here (English sources)](URL_to_English_sources). This will create a corresponding entry in the references section.
If a reference, such as the same page or pages in a book, is used in multiple places in the article, these references can be grouped. To do this, add <ref name="Description">Source p.X</ref> at the appropriate place. "Description" should be the name of the reference work, essentially a description of the source. Quotation marks are only needed if the description contains one or more spaces; otherwise, they can be omitted. "Source" should then be a link to the article of the source, along with an appropriate page number. Usually, it is best to enter the name of the article in both cases, but for space-saving reasons, a readily recognizable abbreviation is sufficient for the description.