Stargate Wiki:About

Summary Semantic Stargate Wiki is a collaborative encyclopedia and episode guide dedicated to the Stargate franchise. Its coverage includes the television series Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and Stargate Universe, the original film Stargate, the direct-to-DVD films, and a wide range of officially licensed media, including novels, comics, video games, reference books, DVDs, and other merchandise. As a community-driven wiki, Semantic Stargate Wiki is constantly evolving. Registered users can contribute by expanding articles, uploading images, adding references, and improving content throughout the site. Every contribution helps enhance the quality and completeness of the encyclopedia. What distinguishes Semantic Stargate Wiki from many other franchise wikis is its use of semantic technology. Built on Semantic MediaWiki, it is the first wiki dedicated to the Stargate universe to integrate structured semantic data. This allows information to be organized, queried, compared, and automatically grouped across the entire site, providing readers and contributors with powerful navigation and research tools. For more information about the technology behind this wiki, visit the Semantic MediaWiki project, which develops and maintains the software used by Semantic Stargate Wiki. To see what a community-built knowledge base can achieve, you may also wish to explore Wikipedia and the Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5, both of which serve as excellent examples of large-scale collaborative reference projects. With your help, Semantic Stargate Wiki can continue to grow into the most comprehensive resource available for the Stargate franchise.

What is this wiki about? Semantic Stargate Wiki is a free online encyclopedia and comprehensive episode guide dedicated to the Stargate franchise and its associated science fiction productions. It covers: Stargate, the original feature film that launched the franchise, Stargate SG-1, including the direct-to-DVD films Stargate: The Ark of Truth and Stargate: Continuum, Stargate Atlantis, the first spin-off series from SG-1, Stargate Universe, the second spin-off series from SG-1, Stargate Origins: Catherine, originally released as a ten-episode web series and later compiled into a feature-length presentation, recognized as canon on this wiki, Stargate Infinity, an animated series derived from SG-1, treated as a separate continuity on this wiki due to its inconsistencies with established Stargate canon. Semantic Stargate Wiki aims to document every aspect of the Stargate universe. From Jack O'Neill to Everett Young, from Chulak to Icarus base, the wiki strives to provide detailed and continually expanding coverage of the franchise's characters, locations, technologies, civilizations, and episodes. This site enforces a strict spoiler policy. Contributors and readers are encouraged to familiarize themselves with it before browsing or editing. Users are also expected to refrain from vandalism and other disruptive behavior. Violations of site policies may result in administrative action, including blocks imposed by an administrator or bureaucrat. If you would like to contribute, please explore the community projects currently in progress. Should you require assistance, have a question, or wish to make a suggestion, you are welcome to contact an administrator on their talk page or post a message at the Administrators' noticeboard.

Getting started In order to be able to contribute on Semantic Stargate Wiki, you need a valid account that you can ask on the "Request Account" link in the upper right corner and enter a user name that will be used at all of your contributions, and an email address in order to have your temporary password you'll need to change at first logon. Present day We presently cover all aspects of the Stargate series and movies. You'll find — and can add — information on such items as terminology seen, events that occurred, and characters introduced & developed. We will also furnish a complete and thorough episode guide, a la Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5, to analyze and dissect the episodes from this series. Unlike the Lurker's Guide, contributions are immediate and can be edited without the tedious process of emailing corrections and awaiting the webmaster for an update. Semantic Stargate Wiki is hosted on a personal server.

How to Utilize Utilization of this wiki is fairly straight forward. For starters, you need a means to identify yourself. Therefore, you'll have to ask for the creation of a user account through this link, which is fast, easy, and, of course, free. Once you account created, you can log in (and change your password at first log in) and then, any hyperlink without an icon next to it leads to an entry on this website about that term. Above it, you will find a list of tabs. In this group of tabs, you'll find the "Edit" tab. Click it, and you'll be able to add, correct, or remove content. The Editing Help portion of the site will cover the essentials in editing entries, but it'll be like posting to a message board, and you'll see your results immediately. You'll also be able to discuss the topic by clicking the "Discussion" tab. So, if you want to question on the merit of a piece of information in that entry, or spur discussion, you can do that there without including it in the "official" entry. (Thus presenting information and not back-and-forth bulletin board type commentary.)