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Welcome to the help section, a centralised guide for using the Retro family of wikis; Sonic Retro, Sega Retro, NEC Retro and Retro CDN.
If you need some assistance in browsing or editing a page on one of our websites, the pages listed in the list below should be helpful. If you have just registered an account with us and are unsure how to help, it is highly recommended that you read these pages.
For more detailed help concerning the Mediawiki software, see mw:Help:Contents.
Contents
Overview
- What is a wiki?
- Tutorial: A general introduction for newcomers.
- About: A general introduction about who we are, what we want, why we're here, and where we're going.
- Frequently Asked Questions: A collection of anticipated questions about our policies, practices, and goals.
- Copyrights: An overview of Retro's copyright policy.
Getting started
- How to log in
- How to edit a page
- How to start a page
- How to use Wiki markup
- How to include images
- How to include tables
- How to use talk pages
- How to use headers
Features
- Setting your preferences
- Searching
- Go button
- Recent changes
- Related changes
- Using the watchlist
- What links here
- Page history
- Tracking user contributions
- Edit summary
- Minor edits
- Using templates
- Variables
- How to use categories
- Special characters
- ISBN links
- Understanding namespaces
- Referencing wiki content
Creating files
- Image tagging
- Screenshot creation guide
- Physical scanning guide
- PNG compression and optimization
- PDF magazines
Problem solving
- How to resolve edit conflicts
- How to rename a page
- How to redirect a page
- How to merge two pages
- How to revert a page
Editing guidelines
Wiki-specific
Sonic Retro
- Hack Policy: A guide to Sonic Retro's perspective on Sonic hacks.
Sega Retro
- Determining genre: How we decide the difference between "Action" and "Adventure".
- Ratings: How Sega Retro attempts to convert different review systems into one universal format.
- Regions of the world: How Sega, and by extension, Sega Retro, groups countries of the world into regions.
NEC Retro
- Determining PC-9800 computers: How we decide the difference between a "PC-9801 F" and a "PC-9801 M".