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Welcome to Moegirlpedia!

Moegirlpedia (Chinese: 萌娘百科; Japanese: 萌えっ娘（もえっこ）百科事典) is a Chinese encyclopedia on animations, comics, (electronic) games and things related, aiming at "Everything can be moe". Its official endorsement image is Moegirlpe-tan shown on the top left of the page. Any registered user is free to edit under basic regulations. We suggest you take a moment to read this guide which helps you step by step to edit Moegirlpedia with quality and efficiency.

Before reading, you need to know the following:

• Please try not to miss any information, as every of them may greatly reduce your time to learn.
• It is recommended to study on a device more convenient to edit Moegirlpedia (e.g. a computer) to get you the best learning effect.
• The layout and UI on mobile platforms may differ from those on PCs, where some information may be omitted.
• Image guides may slightly differ from actual operations due to website updates and other reasons.
• The guide was co-authored by experienced editors here and not perfect, so please be brave to correct any of its mistake.

First register for an account. Click the "Create account" on the top right of the page and follow the instruction there (Temporary in Chinese).

About Moegirlpedia

To know more about Moegirlpedia, please read MGP:About. This section only provides a general introduction to its policies and guidelines. Of course, the most basic is: Moegirlpedia is a popular editable encyclopedia where every article needs to be improved.

Please be sure to pay attention to the scope of inclusion before editing, and any content not included will be deleted. Plagiarism from Wikipedia or website with incompatible copyright license is not allowed. We welcome you to seek advice or guidance from other editors after reading this guide if you have any doubts. Please make your edits under editing guidelines, and low-quality edits can be considered vandalism and result in a ban, though:

• Moegirlpedia allows first-hand material to some extent. While listing the source is strongly recommended, information without source will not be removed indiscriminately.
• Moegirlpe-tan is not a conformist. You can edit articles in any form without disturbing the reading, so believe in yourself and play boldly within entries.

User system

Moegirlpedia users are classified into the following:

• Official user groups. With certain permissions, they are considered officials of Moegirlpedia which consists of:
  • Maintenance group: Bureaucrats, Administrators, Patrollers. User group ranks and opinion validity decreases in this order. They have high maintenance rights and can participate in changes to user group rights, and are also obliged to participate in the development of policies and guidelines.
  • Operations group: Staff. Active staff of Moegirlpedia without direct additional user rights.
    • Specifically, the user account Moegirlpedia has no votes or activity limits.
• Honorary user groups: Good editors, Designated maintainers, VIPs. User groups not considered officials, only created to honor who have made specific contributions here.
• Functional user groups: Reserved to who have strong coding abilities and undertake the maintenance and improvements voluntarily, yet not considered officials:
  • Technical: Interface administrators, Script editors, Technical editors. These user groups all have the privilege "Allow only administrators and technical editors", and the first two also have some other permissions. These additional permissions allow users with certain abilities and experience to participate in editing more easily (this includes performing operations that can not be done by normal users directly).
  • Robots: Bots, Bot users. These user groups all have the privilege "Be treated as an automated process" to assist users in performing mass edits or tasks.
  • Others: File maintainers, Abuse filter maintainers, Manually-confirmed users. You can apply for a manually-confirmed user before operations with autoconfirmed users required and you were not qualified.
• Automatic user groups: Users, Autoconfirmed users, Extended confirmed users. User groups automatically granted by the system. You will be one of them once registered.

For further information, please click here to check the Chinese compact guide.