This wiki is a XML full dump clone of "Heroes Wiki", the main wiki about the Heroes saga that has been shut down permanently since June 1, 2020. The purpose of this wiki is to keep online an exhaustive and accurate database about the franchise.
Help:Contents
Help Pages
General Help
- Editing - provides information on formatting and good editing practices
- Style - provides information on creating consistent and high-quality articles
- Sources - explains the difference between canon, official, credible, and other sources for information
Special Topics
- Templates - provides information on using and creating templates
- Images - explains how to upload images, how to credit the source of your images, how to create image galleries, and standard size for images for use in consistent elements
- Disambiguation - explains how and when to add disambiguation pages
- Theories and Spoilers - explains how to include non-encylcopaediac content in Heroes Wiki, including how to use the Theories article, how to add new theories, and how and when to create and edit articles in the Spoilers category.
If you want to try out or practice wiki markup or other formatting, please use the Sandbox, not an actual article.
How Do I...
- ...add a new article?
- ...format text?
- ...add a table?
- ...link to other articles?
- ...add a new episode?
- ...add categories to articles?
- ...upload and add images to articles?
- ...write using language consistent with other articles?
- ...use a template?
- ...use an article as if it were a template?
- ...copy the contents of one article into another?
- ...create a new template?
- ...print information when a template is used only if certain conditions are met?
- ...request a screen capture?
- ...distinguish easily confused terms from one another?
- ...add a new theory to an existing Theories section?
- ...add a new section to the Theories page?
External Resources
- WikiText (very useful for learning how to format entries here)
- Magic Words & Variables
- Parser Functions Help (conditionals for templates and articles)
- HTML in Wikitext (lists all available HTML tags)
- Wiki Tables
- Footnotes