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Welcome to the Elite Wiki experiment! Over the coming days I will be adding a substantial amount of material from alioth.net to this site to begin the kernel of content that will be needed to get the ball rolling. However - don't be shy about adding your own content!
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<font size="4">'''Welcome to the Elite Wiki'''</font>
  
We need content in the following categories (please see the Mediawiki help at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Category for how to assign an article to a particular category) :
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Welcome to the [[Elite]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki Wiki], a user-edited guide to the world of Elite.  Feel free to edit or add any pages you feel are necessary, but please read the [[EliteWiki:Manual of Style|Manual of Style]] first...
  
- [[:Category:Classic]] ('Classic Elite' - i.e. Elite 1 - BBC Micro, Spectrum, Elite+, ArcElite etc., including things like Elite: TNK)
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'''Important note''' - Due to the increasing number of spam accounts, new account creation has been disabled. If you want an account, please send a PM via the [http://aegidian.org/bb/ Oolite Bulletin Board] to 'maik', [http://www.aegidian.org/bb/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=39898 Cholmondely] or [http://www.aegidian.org/bb/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=43129 Old Murgh].
  
- [[:Category:FE2]] (Frontier Elite: 2)
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<font size="3">'''[[:Category:Classic|Classic Elite]]'''</font>
  
- [[:Category:FFE]] (Frontier First Encounters)
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'Classic Elite' - i.e. Elite 1 - BBC Micro, Spectrum, Elite+, ArcElite etc., including things like Elite: TNK
  
- [[:Category:Oolite]]
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<font size="3">'''[[:Category:FE2|Frontier Elite: 2]]'''</font>
  
- [[:Category:Elite4]] (we hope!)
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Information regarding the first sequel to Elite.
  
- [[:Category:Fiction]]
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<font size="3">'''[[:Category:FFE|Frontier First Encounters]]'''</font>
  
- [[:Category:Factual]] (note, that pretty much everything in this category will also be in others, such as an article about creating ships in Oolite will be in both Factual and Oolite).
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Information regarding the third instalment of Elite.
  
[http://www.newmars.com/wiki/index.php/Special:Wantedpages You can help out filling in some of the  Wanted Pages]
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<font size="3">'''[[Oolite Main Page|Oolite]]'''</font>
  
Note that articles can be in more than one category (for example, both Fiction and FFE). Please
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Information regarding the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL GNU GPL] recreation of Elite.
  
If you have an article you want to add that doesn't fit any of these categories, please add the category and note the category in this page in the space above.
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<font size="3">'''[[Elite 4|Elite: Dangerous]]'''</font>
  
If you're new to editing articles with Mediawiki, please look at the Mediawiki help page - this should get you going: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help
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Information regarding the fourth instalment of the Elite series.
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<font size="3">'''Helping with the Wiki'''</font>
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Feel free to start editing as soon as you feel you can, but please read the Manual of Style before editing, and make any testing of the wiki system in the Sandbox.  Visit the village pump to make any discussions you wish about better organizing the wiki, or adding major new additions to the wiki, or start right in on requests posted in the article requests.
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[[EliteWiki:Manual of Style|Manual of Style]], [[EliteWiki:Sandbox|Sandbox]], [[EliteWiki:Village Pump|Village Pump]], [[EliteWiki:Requested Articles|Article Requests]], [[EliteWiki:Requests for Deletion|Requests for Deletion]]
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<font size="3">'''[[:Category:Fiction|Fiction]]'''</font>
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Fiction based in the world of Elite.
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Revision as of 12:31, 27 January 2022

Welcome to the Elite Wiki

Welcome to the Elite Wiki, a user-edited guide to the world of Elite. Feel free to edit or add any pages you feel are necessary, but please read the Manual of Style first...

Important note - Due to the increasing number of spam accounts, new account creation has been disabled. If you want an account, please send a PM via the Oolite Bulletin Board to 'maik', Cholmondely or Old Murgh.

Classic Elite

'Classic Elite' - i.e. Elite 1 - BBC Micro, Spectrum, Elite+, ArcElite etc., including things like Elite: TNK

Frontier Elite: 2

Information regarding the first sequel to Elite.

Frontier First Encounters

Information regarding the third instalment of Elite.

Oolite

Information regarding the GNU GPL recreation of Elite.

Elite: Dangerous

Information regarding the fourth instalment of the Elite series.


Other Stuff

Helping with the Wiki

Feel free to start editing as soon as you feel you can, but please read the Manual of Style before editing, and make any testing of the wiki system in the Sandbox. Visit the village pump to make any discussions you wish about better organizing the wiki, or adding major new additions to the wiki, or start right in on requests posted in the article requests.

Manual of Style, Sandbox, Village Pump, Article Requests, Requests for Deletion

Fiction

Fiction based in the world of Elite.