Help:Features

Wikia has many special features. These allow you to do everything from adding YouTube videos to your articles, to sending "gifts" to your friends.

This page will give you information on some of the features we have, and links to pages with more help on using these on Wikia. Note that not all thse features may be available on your wiki.


 * New and upcoming features can be read about on Inside Wikia. This is also a great place to talk about what you would like to see on Wikia next!

User features

 * Email notification - An easy way to know what pages have been edited is to have an email sent to you to let you know! You can choose to have this just for your user and talk pages, or for all pages on your watchlist.
 * Forums - there are two types of forum on Wikia. The first is a simple wiki based forum that allows you to organise conversations on the wiki.  We are also developing a phpBB forum, integrated with the wiki.
 * Mailing lists - Sometimes you may want to talk to a group of contributors via email rather than on-wiki. Wikia provides mailing lists for all Wikia wikis on request.
 * Your Profile - This is a special page on Wikia that shows your details

Articles

 * Breadcrumbs - Breadcrumbs on the Quartz skin improve navigation between wikis in a single content area.
 * Calendar - This plugin lets you easily enter and display a list of upcoming events.
 * Cite - This feature allows you to add footnotes and references to articles quickly and easily.
 * Custom edit buttons - Create custom buttons for inserting text and code into the edit box.
 * Custom namespaces - Namespaces are like sections of the wiki. They are very useful for separating various types of content or making special areas outside the main article space.  You can request new namespaces to be added to your wiki.
 * Inputboxes - You can add a search box or an article creation box to a page. A useful way of helping new users to get started.
 * Math - mathematical formulae are often difficult to write in normal text. The Math extension allows you to write complicated mathematical formulae in a clear way.
 * Poem - This small extension allows you to easily format poems.
 * Polls - polls are a fun way to get readers to interact with the wiki. With this extension you can add a poll to any page, choose the questions, and see the results of readers votes.

Media

 * ImageMap - ImageMap lets you make areas of an image clickable. This is very useful for special effects on a navigation page.
 * Image tagging - Image tagging allows you to link parts of an image to articles.

Using off-wiki information

 * Google maps - You can add Google maps directly to a wiki page. You can add markers, and allow readers to move around the map, all while still viewing the page.
 * RSS2Wiki - With this feature you can add a webfeed from a blog or other source directly to a wiki page. You could use this to add regularly updated content on news or events to the wiki.
 * YouTube - YouTube has a wealth of useful, interesting and fun videos. This feature allows you to add YouTube videos to your articles and pages.

New features

 * Edit Page Enhancements
 * EditSimilar
 * User Tips
 * WidgetTag