Men of War - Wiki:FAQs

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What does it cost to look up something?
Nothing: Men of War - Wiki is a free encyclopedia an Men of War and it is free to look up something.

How can I create an account?
Creating an account here is free and easy: It is based on the same site-engine as Wikipedia.

You can create an account here. You can read though the account-tutorial here. Note that you must have cookies enabled to log in.

What warranty is there that the articles in this wiki are correct?
Of course, we cannot give a real "warranty" for that, but he are working on that and spend much time to keep the content of this site correct.

If you have found any mistakes (language or content) and you already have registered an own account on this site, you can edit the page.

How can I delete a page?
If you do not have at least admin-rights there is no way for you to do that.

If you are surely that a page has to be deleted, please contact an administrator to delete it or place the  -template on the top of the page. You must have a valid reason for it. (If you do not have one, the contact will be taken as spam)

Can I move / rename articles?
You can. To do so, there is a tab at the top border of the page which has the caption: . If you select this feature, a new page will be loaded where you can set a new page name before you confirm the action. Note that this act is visible for all the other users in the recent-changes page such as all the other edits etc. you do.

Administrators can protect pages from movement by non-sysop users using the Help:Page actions -feature.

Can I upload as many images as I want to?
Our web-hosting service only allows us a maximum upload size (eg. for images) of 100 MB. We're currently using about 35 MB.

If the limit has expired, you are not able to upload any file to this site anymore.

Where can I look up the MediaWiki editing-syntax?
We created a whole help-section for editors of this wiki.

The most important pages are Help:Editing and Help:Text formatting. There you will be involved into the main syntax codes and rules.

Another helpful topic might be Help:Templates.

Why can't I log in?
To log in on Men of War - Wiki, you have to enable cookies. If they are disabled, you will get an error-message.

Another reason might be that you forgot your password. In this case you can use the "Email Password" -feature. It will send you an email with your log-in information to your email adress, if you have set and confirmed your email adress.

There is also the possibillity that your account was deleted by a bureaucrat.That could be happened because af a rules violation, vandalism or spam.If your account was banned and you think that it was unreasonable you can contact the administration (contact details).

What shows a red/blue link?
The colorization is made authomaticly by the wiki-software.

A blue link links to an excisting page in this wiki.A red link links to an article which does not excist (yet). If you click on it, you came to the editing-page.

If you visited this page already with the IP-adress you are currently using, the link is shown in different colors than it is shown by default:
 * Used, internal links to existing pages have this color ,
 * but if they are linking to pages which do not exist, they have got this color

If you are viewing an external link, it looks like this.That formation shows you that the link goes to an external site. (Note that does not care for the content of these sites!)

Why does this site look like "Wikipedia"?
This site is based on the world's most-used wiki-software: MediaWiki.

MediaWiki originally was designed and programmed to create Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.today it is used in most online-encyclopedias world wide.

More information about the wiki software: MediaWiki's Home page

What license does this site use?
All content on this site is protected by a Creative-Commons License: See here...

(How) Can I change the site skin?
As a registered user you are able to change the style of this site shown for you:
 * 1) Go to your preferences page
 * 2) Change to the  -tab
 * 3) There you see a list of avaible skins. If you want, choose another one than ', click on the ' -buton and refresh the page (normally: )