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a one-stop shop for editors old and new
Tolkien Gateway is an encyclopedia about Tolkien that anyone can edit. Since our launch on 3 June 2005, we have grown to include 12,543 articles and 14,295 images on a range of Tolkien-related topics.
This Community Portal is designed to help editors find something to work on. It covers a range of ways you can share your Tolkien knowledge with the world including creating wanted pages, expanding stub articles, cleaning up poorly-written pages and added references to articles in need of citations. Some of the work might be a little tedious, but a little goes a long way in continuing to build the world's largest Tolkien encyclopedia.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask in our Chat. You can also ask a specific staff member on their talk page - they're happy to help you out.
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Site updates
- 24-6-23 - We have configured a Maps extension into TG so we can now incorporate both real-world as well as legendarium-based maps into articles.
- 19-6-23 - Hovering over a reference number in an article will now display a preview of the citation.
- 1-6-23 - Talk pages have been modernized to support a much more friendly interface both for new topics and replies. You will also now receive a notification if someone replies to your comment.
- 28-5-23 - You can now Thank individuals for their edit, the thank button is visible on the History tab of the respective article to the far right of their edit. A log of all "Thanks" events can be accessed via Special:Log/thanks
- 24-5-23 - When hovering over links on a computer, a thumbnail image and brief description will now appear without having to click on the link.
- 24-5-23 - Enabled wiki-syntax highlighting that can be toggled using the highlighter button in the edit toolbar.
- 21-5-23 - Our "favicon" in web browsers was updated from the white tree to our red wax stamp.
- 12-5-23 - Upgraded to MediaWiki version 1.39, which includes support for the Visual Editor.
more updates and Technical To-do
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