Auto Racing:Community Portal

Welcome to ! 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?

 * If you are new to wikis, you may want to read the tutorial.
 * There is some advice on getting this wiki started at Help:Starting this wiki.
 * A list of most help pages can be found on Help:Contents and in Category:Help.

Using the new editor
Wikia and MediaWiki (the wikipedia folks) have collaborated to create a new "visual editor". Until now, you had to know the "wikitext" markup language, which is somewhat complicated (although easier than HTML). Now with this new editor you just type and click buttons to set fonts, colors, headings, bullets, etc. In other words, a lot like using Microsoft Word--what you see is what you get (WYSIWYG). This will be much easier for most folks.

The new editor is in beta testing at Wikia at this time (2009 January). In the wiki it should be turned on for all users by default. If it's not on for you, go to your preferences page (top-right of the page, you'll see the MORE menu, select My Preferences). On that page, click the Editing tab, and make sure that Disable Rich Text Editing is not checked. If checked, then un-check it and click the Save button.

The editor requires that your web browser supports JavaScript. Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 and Mozilla Firefox 3.0 work. For some reason, Opera does not (I've reported it to Wikia). By default these browsers have JavaScript turned on, but if you've turned it off you will have to enable it to use the visual editor.

When editing, you can switch between the WYSIWYG mode and the wikitext mode with the Source button at the top of the editing pane, in case you actually like wikitext markup.

You can try out the editor on this page.

There's help on the new editor here.

How to help out

 * 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    :Templates.
 * If you need help editing, you could start with Help:Editing or the tutorial.

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 if the forums have been set up.

Things to do

 * Useful activities
 * Help expand some article stubs.
 * Locate and mark pages that need expanding as article 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!
 * Fix any double redirects by redirecting the first page to the third page.
 * Check for broken redirects and either mark them for deletion or find a more appropriate target.
 * Consider splitting up very long pages into different pages or subpages.
 * 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.

Task list

 * Create a logo for the wiki. Learn how to create a logo image, then click here to add it to the wiki.
 * Finish the Content organization plan.
 * Create top-level navigation pages following the plan.
 * Publicize the wiki, get others involved from ApexSpeed and the SCCA.
 * Capture information from ApexSpeed.com forums and other forums. I will start with information on Formula Fords.

Some other interesting pages

 * Want to find out what you've done so far? Visit your contributions page.
 * Find out more about the wiki on Special:WikiaStats, Special:Statistics and Special:Version!
 * The wiki creation proposal
 * Introduction to your new wiki
 * First steps for the founder
 * All about Administrators and their capabilities.
 * Also . (Help me fix this link--I can't figure out what's wrong with it.)
 * Participation guidelines.