Help:Getting Started

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Welcome to Grand Theft Wiki
This page will help get you started and contributing to this site!

Step 1 - Get an Account

You need to be logged into an account before you can edit any pages:

If you have an account on Wikia, you'll need to create a new one for Grand Theft Wiki

Step 2 - Verify your Account

Grand Theft Wiki requires you to provide an email address and verify it before you can edit.

We will send you an email instantly - click on the link to verify your account.

Step 3 - Practice editing in our Sandbox

Grand Theft Wiki has a Sandbox - this is a page you can play around with and test out editing without breaking anything.

To edit the sandbox:

Go to the Sandbox page
Click the 'Edit' button in the top-right
Type in some text
Click 'Preview Edited Page' - see if it shows up the way you expect
Click 'Publish this Edit' to save the page
Your edit is now visible on Grand Theft Wiki for all the world to see

Step 4 - Get going

You're now ready to start editing any page on Grand Theft Wiki!

Have a look around the wiki -

Start at Template:Gta, find some subjects you know about, and add in any
If there's a page we don't have, go to Help:Create to make it

Step 5 - Hone your skills

Once you've had some practice editing, it's time to learn some more advanced editing skills

Check out our Help pages, including:

Help:Editing - Learn how formatting and syntax works
Help:Images - Advanced image formatting and syntax
Help:Categories - Categories help us organise the wiki
Help:Templates - Templates are tools for making complex pages easier
Help:Infoboxes - Infoboxes are templates at the side of pages that contain lots of information