Guidelines

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!

Creating a new page
To write a new article; enter the article title in the box below to create a page with a preselected boilerplate. Make sure to include the full device name & model number in the title when appropriate. (Example: A2159 2019 13" MacBook Pro) If you don't finish it, insert  at the top of the page to signify it's a work in progress.

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.

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.

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

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:

: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)

Copyrighted Materials
Your articles may not contain or link to copyrighted materials as this puts the Wiki at risk of being litigated against and taken down.

This includes, but is not limited to, patented schematics, instruction manual PDFs, other people's images, plagiarized problems/solutions from online articles etc.

Only original material or material for which you own the copyright and are consenting to release under the appropriate open-source licence may be posted to Repair Wiki.

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.

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

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 & 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.

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