The Sims Wiki:Community Portal

Welcome to the wiki! The Community Portal is where this wiki community comes together to organize and discuss projects for the wiki. To see the most recent discussions, click the Discussion tab above.

You can find out more general information about the wiki on the About page.

New to wikis?

• Don't be a Newbie; read the tutorial on the Central Wikia.
• A list of help pages can be found at Help:Contents. Ask for specific help at Forum:Help desk and gameplay help at Forum:Questions.
• A list of administrators can be found at The Sims Wiki:Administrators.
• There is advice on how to structure an article at The Sims Wiki:Manual of Style.

How to help out

• Join a Project and collaborate on a specific area of The Sims Wiki
• If you want to help but you're not sure where to start, try improving the various stub articles by adding content.
• Another helpful activity would be to check the list of wanted pages for frequently linked-to articles that don't exist yet.
• To follow the changes to this wiki, and to look out for new users and edits use recent changes.
• You can find a list of useful templates on Category:Templates, some of which are documented on Project:Templates.
• If you need help editing, you could start with Help:Editing or the tutorial on the Central Wikia.

Current discussions

• Should permanently blocked users have their content removed?
• Should inactive administrators be demoted?

Current votes

• Delete SimsVille page? (Vote ends August 1, 2010 00:00 UTC)
• Remove white background on our logo? (August 11, 2010 00:00:00 UTC)

Want to discuss stuff?

• If you want to discuss anything specific to an article, you can use the talk page for that article.
• For more general discussions you can use the Discussion tab of this page, or a Forum.
• We are currently discussing if we should have a policy for revoking an inactive admin's rights? and if unregistered users should be able to make contests. Discuss what you think with the community.
• See the Commnunity Portal talk page for changes and issues about The Sims Wiki or see Development Portal talk page for news and notices about the mechanics behind the wiki.

Want to connect with the community?

• Join and/or make a contest!
• Ask a question on the forum!
• Talk with other users on the IRC channel!
• Make a talkbox to show off your unique style while leaving messages on talk pages!
• Make a userbox for your user page to show people what games you have, information about yourself, and your likes and dislikes!

Things to do

See also: The Sims Wiki talk:Development Portal

Useful activities Help expand some stubs. Locate and mark pages that need expanding as stubs. Create links to some orphaned pages. Upload and add some images! Visit Special:Upload. Add them to a category too, like [[Category:Images]]. Write a new article that's on the the wanted list! Consider splitting up very long pages. Create some links on dead end pages. Add more...

Other useful special pages Special:BrokenRedirects Special:DoubleRedirects Special:ProblemReports Special:Uncategorizedcategories Special:Uncategorizedimages Special:Uncategorizedpages Special:Unusedimages Special:Wantedcategories Check out the full list of special pages at Special:Specialpages.

Some other interesting pages

Guides and tips written by players Resurrecting tips Earning simoleons Fishing spawner Guide to achieving the Guitar Star challenge more...

Vote for Featured Article and Featured Media What's been going on? Read The Sims Wiki:Newsletter. Want to find out what you've done so far? Visit Special:Mycontributions. Find out more about the wiki on Special:Statistics and Special:Version! Decorate your user page with Userboxes. Make your opinions stand out with Talkboxes.