Guidelines

This wiki uses MediaWiki Formatting. (You can also get there from the sidebar with Help about MediaWiki / Formatting)

The following are the most common types of formatting.

Categorizing pages
Categories make browsing the wiki efficient and easier to navigate for other users.

You will commonly be adding categories to new products, which use the format  .

Only add one or two categories per page, and make sure a relevant category doesn't already exist before you create new ones.

Say you're making a repair guide for the new MacBook Pro, you'll want to add it to the   category.

But since Apple has many lines / series of laptops, you'll want to specify further by adding the   category as well.

If a brand does not have a wide product stack, further categorization is not necessary.

If your article applies to more than one or few products, it likely belongs in Category:Board Repair Guides.

If it's even more general than that, it belongs in Category:General Repair Guides.

Finally, if your article is a draft or lacking in detail, add it to the Stub category by inserting  at the top of the page.

Result:
Donate to the GoFundMe at the top of the page to signify it's a work in progress.

Deleting a page
Ask one of the [ wiki admins] in the Discord.

External links to other websites
Right to Repair fundraiser

Result:
Right to Repair fundraiser

Internal links in the wiki
Main Page

Standards page

Result:
Main Page

Standards page

If the link is red, either the link is wrong, or the page doesn't exist yet.

However if you want a page to redirect to another page, you can use the following:
 * 1) REDIRECT Target Page

Lists, Linebreaks, Italic & Bold Text

 * italic text
 * bold text
 * bold italic text
 * text with a linebreak

Result:

 * italic text
 * bold text
 * bold italic text
 * text with a linebreak

Louis Rossmann's Repair Videos
A project is underway to transfer information from all of Louis Rossmann's repair videos onto this wiki.

To avoid duplicating effort, we are using Google Sheets. Please mark videos as 'Done' when you have added their contents to the wiki, or confirmed that they are already on the wiki.

Searching through captions
You can find captions by video URL here

Ctrl+F and paste the part of the URL after. For example: QnowcxcO2-0

Making a minor change
Everyone starts small! If you want to add some information, fix typos or add a few links, go ahead.

Visit Stub Pages for a list of pages the most in need of contribution.

Once on a page, click  or   (recommended) in the top right of it to begin editing.

If you make a new page, you don't need to ask for permission, but make sure to list your sources and ask them for permission.

After you're done, you can give yourself or someone else credit by inserting

Making a major change
If you completely rewrite or reorganize a page, please let the people in  in  the Discord know!

It's also beneficial to add what you did (like info and format changes and whose work's impacted) in the discussion section of the page that's changed. This helps people either follow it if it's helpful or know how to undo the work if it's detrimental.

It's really good to consult the people whose work's being changed on the Repair Wiki, they worked hard on it and have it there for a reason - so they might not know it's happening and can defend keeping it if there's a valid reason that others aren't aware of.

Renaming a page
Click  in the top right and click.

Note that if you move a category page, pages belonging to it will need to be recategorized manually.

Sections
Section headers are added by using equal signs. Level 1 headers should not be used. (ie. =Example=) Use Level 2 & 3 Headers instead

Level 3 header
Text

Tables
To add a classic Problem & Solution table, fill in the template named "ProblemTable" or use the source editor, starting by copying / pasting what's below:

Result:
To add a new row, simply define as many  and   parameters as needed.

Talk pages
Click on  in the top left to leave a comment, then add   to insert a user signature, like so:

It is probably easier to just use the Discord, but it's good for writing notes.

If you have suggestions for how to improve the wiki, you can leave them on Talk:Repair Wiki

Response
When responding to someone in the talk pages, do it on a new line and prefix your message with  to give it indentation.

This is the OP speaking. Patrolin (talk) 02:43, 5 May 2021 (PDT)
 * This is a response to OP. Karar (talk) 02:57, 5 May 2021 (PDT)
 * Here I've used double colon punctuation  to respond to the message above. Patrolin (talk) 03:00, 5 May 2021 (PDT)
 * Another response to OP. Karar (talk) 02:57, 5 May 2021 (PDT)

Templates
You can create your own template or find what's already created here Category:Formatting templates. Boilerplate templates are portions of information that get copied/pasted. If you edit the original, all the copies will change accordingly.

Transclusion
You can include a page inside another page with.

Make sure to use  to not duplicate too much content (search engines don't like it).

Note:
Make sure the page or Template you're transcluding has its categories inside noinclude tags:

if you want to link to a category instead, colon symbol in front of it:

Uploading & Embedding Files
Click Upload File in the sidebar to upload files.

Once uploaded, insert either of the following at the top of the page:

or

Example:


Make sure to reference the image in the solution text, ie. "See Fig. 1".

You can search for images in the public domain here.

Viewing schematics and boardviews

 * Search for schematic and download a .pdf file
 * Search for boardview and download a .brd file
 * Open the .brd file in a Schematic viewer