Guidelines

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

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!

Creating a new page
To write a new article, enter the article title in the box below. Make sure to include the full device name & model numer in the title when appropriate.

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

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

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

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, you can get away with more general categorization, such as  .

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.

Note: All transcluded pages and Templates' categories must have noinclude tags:

if you want to link to a category instead, add : to it

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

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

MediaWiki Formatting
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. Click  on the top right of the page and then  .

Lists, Italic & Bold Text

 * italic text
 * bold text
 * bold italic text

Result:


 * italic text
 * bold text
 * bold italic text

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, copy / paste this into the source editor and fill in accordingly:

Result:

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

Uploading Files
Click Upload File in the sidebar.

Once uploaded, you can insert the image file by inserting the following at the top of the page: Make sure to reference the image in the solution text, ie. "See Fig. 1".

Example:



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

External links to other websites
Right to Repair fundraiser

Result:

Right to Repair fundraiser

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).

Renaming a page
Click  in the top right and click.

Moving a category page does not change the category of the pages in that category. So you will have to do that manually.

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

: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.

Talk:Main_Page has suggestions on how to improve the 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)