Help:Proving Ground

The proving ground is a place for anonymous users to edit or create articles for Battlestar Pegasus anonymously without having an account.

All pages on the proving ground are prefixed by the Proving Ground: namespace. All pages are also subject to the same policies and guidelines as anywhere else on the site!

[edit] Getting started

If you are an anonymous user who hasn't edited a wiki before, you may want to review the Beginner's Guide.

To begin, do the following:

Go to Portal:Proving Ground.
Using the create a page prompt, enter the name of the page you want to create. Do not worry about adding the Proving Ground namespace prefix, this will be done automagically. Press Create Article.
You will be directed to the editing page. Begin editing.

[edit] Importing pages to the Proving Ground

All pages outside the Proving Ground namespace are not editable by anonymous contributors. However, this doesn't mean you can modify them -- you can "import" them into the Proving Ground namespace via "mirroring" or "substitution".

If you want to edit content on a page that you normally couldn't edit, simply do the following:

Get the title of the page you want to edit. Do a copy (CTRL-C or Command-C) of the full title!
Go to Portal:Proving Ground.
Using the create a page prompt, paste (CTRL-V or Command-V) the name of the page you want to mirror. Do not worry about adding the Proving Ground namespace prefix, this will be done automagically. Press Create Article.
You will be directed to the editing page. Type in:
```
{{subst:ARTICLE}}
```
In place of ARTICLE, paste the article name in there. (Make sure to get rid of the "ARTICLE" part, obviously.)
Save page.
Once saved, you should see a copy of the page you've created. The page name on top should read "Proving Ground:" (without the quotes). Click the "edit" tab and begin editing away.

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Category: Battlestar Pegasus