What Is the wiki.gg Support Wiki?

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The wiki.gg Support Wiki (support.wiki.gg) is the help and documentation site for the wiki.gg platform. It is a separate site from any individual content wiki you might read or edit. It is a collaborative resource that anyone can edit, and it collects guidance on getting started, editing, styling, extending, and working with tools across wiki.gg.

Who it is for

Use the Support Wiki when you need to understand the platform itself rather than a specific game or topic wiki. Typical readers include:

  • New editors who need to create an account or learn basic editing.
  • Wiki founders who want to start a new wiki on wiki.gg.
  • Editors who need help with formatting, templates, or styling.
  • People who want to add functionality through extensions or write code to format data.
  • Users looking for tools to edit or search across wikis.

If you want to experiment with wiki pages, the Support Wiki points you to the sandbox wiki at test.wiki.gg instead of editing the support pages for practice.

What it covers

The Support Wiki organizes help by task. The main "I need help with..." sections include:

Area What you will find
Getting started with wiki.gg Starting points, creating a new wiki, the indie.io redirect browser extension, and creating an account
Getting started editing my wiki Articles, wikitext formatting, table markup, DRUID infoboxes, and RANGER navboxes
Styling my wiki Theming, CSS help, theme toggle, and common CSS pages such as MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Vector.css
Adding functionality Available extensions on wiki.gg, sample gadgets, ParserFunctions and string functions, Cargo, and DPL
Using tools to edit AutoWikiBrowser and PyWikiBot
Searching across wiki.gg Lookup User and Multiwikifinder

It also links to external documentation on mediawiki.org, a blog, Creative Commons licensing information, and programming libraries such as mwclient, mwparserfromhell, and mwcleric, with example Python code and example wiki scripts.

How it relates to your content wiki

The Support Wiki is documentation about the platform, not the content wiki itself. A content wiki covers a game, show, or topic; the Support Wiki explains how wikis on wiki.gg work and how to build and maintain them. When you need platform-level help, start here; when you need to edit a specific article, go to that wiki.

Community and updates

The Support Wiki links to the official wiki.gg Discord server for discussion with other community members. It also lists recent platform updates, with entries such as October 15, 2026 and October 1, 2026, and points to a complete list for more detail. Official policies are listed there as well, including the AI policy, closing a wiki, customization policy, protection policy, and Google Analytics access.

Practical next step

If you are new, open the "Getting started (start here!)" page, then create an account. If you only want to practice editing, use test.wiki.gg rather than the Support Wiki. For platform changes and community help, check the recent updates list and join the Discord server.