Support wiki
This is the wiki.gg support wiki! It's a different site from your content wiki!
Onboarding
Onboarding is a brief time when your wiki is private and we help you prepare it to be public. The goal of onboarding is not to finish the wiki!! It's just to make sure the wiki looks nice for your first visitors. Remember, most of your users will use Google to locate pages on your wiki, and Google can take up to a week to index your pages, so it's generally best to launch as soon as possible.
Logging into an onboarding wiki
See the Logging into an onboarding wiki article for more information about logging in to an onboarding wiki.
Requirements to make a wiki public
We require:
- A logo uploaded called
File:Site-logo.png(note, at Special:Upload , you will just typeSite-logo.png). - A favicon uploaded called
File:Site-favicon.ico(note, at Special:Upload , you will just typeSite-favicon.ico).- This should have dimensions 48x48px
Suggested additional content before making a wiki public
We also suggest:
- Theming & appearance:
- Your front page should have some useful content on it and no broken image links
- Upload a background image and adjust the theme variables to fit your wiki's theme
- Content:
- One or two infoboxes made
- At least about 5-10 content pages made
We can help you with the theming & appearance part, but in this case, the content part becomes mandatory, not a suggestion. See getting help with theming for more information.
If you are a fork
If your wiki has forked from somewhere else, as opposed to being a brand-new wiki just starting out for the first time on wiki.gg, then what we need is:
- The theme to be made compatible with wiki.gg
- The front page to be made compatible with wiki.gg
- Some significant edits to several existing pages, so that the wiki isn't an exact duplicate of another existing wiki on a different hosting platform. If you are forking from an independent site or are otherwise able to close down the old wiki, this requirement is less important.
Timeline & expectations
Wikis are given one month to prepare to be public. Many wikis take less time than this; some release in one week or less. We encourage you to launch your wiki as soon as the average visitor is likely to find at least one piece of useful information on the wiki, which is generally pretty early on.
It is NOT expected that your wiki will be "complete" or "polished" or "done" or any similar adjectives; wikis are perpetually works in progress. The only expectation is that a new visitor to the wiki will see that it's a project being cared for and hopefully be motivated to edit.
We additionally have these expectations:
- Week 1: By the end of the first week, please let us know if you will need help theming your wiki or if you will be doing your own theme
- Week 2: By the end of the second week, you must have edited the wiki or we will warn you about closure. Also, we will will need your assets by this time if we are doing your theme for you.
- Week 3: If you have not edited the wiki by the end of the third week and we have warned you, we will cancel your ticket. You would be able to apply again in the future if you have time to focus on the wiki later on. Also, if you have not sent ALL needed assets for your theme by this point, we can no longer guarantee that we can theme your wiki for you.
- Week 4: Wiki is launched
Exceptions are made to the above at staff discretion, in particular if you have a problem meeting the deadline because of an unexpected event (e.g. you got COVID, family emergency, etc) we can extend your deadline or temporarily close your ticket and invite you to reapply in the future; if you've already edited your wiki we'd make a backup for you that can be restored later on. Please let us know about your situation asap. The resolution is made on a case-by-case basis depending on your specific needs. Generally speaking, though, we will work harder to accommodate you if you've already edited your wiki at least a bit.