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Welcome to Moegirlpedia!
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Becoming a good editor on Moegirlpedia isn't hard. Don't be afraid to make mistakes: keep learning and try again!
We suggest you take a moment to read this guide which helps you step by step to edit Moegirlpedia with quality and efficiency.
About this guide
The guide was co-authored by experienced editors of Moegirlpedia. You can refer to it to gradually understand Moegirlpedia and become a qualified editor.
Before reading, you need to know the following:
- Please try not to miss any information, as the information contained in each paragraph 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.
- This guide is not perfect, so please be brave to correct any of its mistakes.
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 but using objective description from the perspective of ACGN.
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 doubt. 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 citation 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 could 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.
