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Welcome to the Spanking Art wiki! Here is some help for new contributors to get started.

[edit] How do login?

There is a login link at the very top right corner. Alternatively, go here to log in or create a new account.

When you're not logged in, you can edit wiki pages too, but you have two disadvantages: a) your IP address is recorded with each edit in the system, whereas when you're logged in, no IP address is recorded but only your username which ensures better privacy/anonymity/pseudonymity, b) when you're not logged in you can't use special functions such as uploading images.

[edit] What is a wiki and how does it work?

If you're familiar with Wikipedia (or any other wiki), you can start editing here right away. If you're not, please refer to the following tutorials for the basics:

• How to edit a page on Wikipedia
• Wikitext_examples
• MediaWiki reference card (all important markup on one page!)

So now you know a bit about how wikis work and on wiki text markup. If you want to experiment, you can do so in our sandbox, which is a good place to play with wiki markup and such things. When you are ready to edit and create real articles, please read the Conventions that we ask you to follow. We also have Legal terms that talk about critical legal issues such as pornography, copyrights and licenses. How to upload your own images is a simple tutorial that explains step-by-step how you can put your own images into the wiki. Please read our Image use policy too before you upload any images.

We also have a Community_Portal for our community of active contributors - you can find the link in the left navigation sidebar. If you have any further questions, use the discussion page of the corresponding article, or feel free to ask Spankart on his talk page.

[edit] A useful advice

To get best started, it's not a bad idea to make only small edits at first, such as correcting spelling mistakes. Select "edit", find the word you want to edit, make the small edit (leaving everything else unchanged), preview, and if it seems right, save your change.

This will gradually familiarize you with wiki syntax, formatting and style conventions. Whenever you want to know how some formatting was achieved, simply select "edit" to view the source code without making any changes. You can also copy and paste stuff from one article into another, e.g. for something complicated like a formatted table.

It is a good idea if you want to create a new article on, say, an author, to first look up a few existing articles on other authors to get a feeling for what contents might be good (e.g. biographic information such as the author's nationality) and how it might be formatted. Likewise do if you write a new article on a website, an artist, an actor, a company, etc.

[edit] Finding information for articles

If you want to write an article on a topic, you need to gather information on it.

Good resources for finding information:

• Go to Google and type "define:term" to see if you can find any existing definitions in online dictionaries and glossaries. For example, type "define:spanking" (without the double quotes).
• Try searching for this term on Wikipedia. If it is a general term, chances are high there is already a Wikipedia article on it.
• Try Google to find web pages on this topic. If the lemma is more than one word, add enclose the phrase in double quotes. If you get many irrelevant results, add keywords to narrow in your search. For example, to find information on an author, artist or actor, try adding the keyword "biography" or something similar.
• Use offline resources such as printed encyclopedias and other books.
• If it is a BDSM-related term (e.g. "bullwhip" or "ball gag"), try searching for it in BDSM wikis such as Wipipedia.
• Use Qwika to search for the term in other wikis.
• If you speak other languages, try searching for the term in other languages to find more information.