# Space Station 14 wiki & collab space


## What is this?

[Space Station 14](https://spacestation14.io/about/)'s live-edited, anonymously-contributed community wiki and scratchpad, hosted as a HackMD book. It holds content that's between a [discord conversation](https://discord.gg/XrVdCvM) and a [github issue](https://github.com/space-wizards/space-station-14/issues) in structure and persistence. E.g. game design, general documentation, random non-worthless thoughts, organized meme dumps, etc.

## Warning! ^Shard^ ^delamination^ ^imminent...^

- This wiki is **live edited**. Sometimes by multiple contributors at once. When that happens, your reading experience may be affected by broken *formatting and scrambled sentences, like thi*
...so just skip the under-construction section and check back later.
- We're completely naive and made this wiki **anonymously editable**. Don't go crying to reddit or 4chan about something you saw on here if you haven't verified it with the devs on the discord first.
- You explore the wiki by using the **navigation pane to the left**. Now's a good time to click away to the exciting design documents if you're just reading for the first time, because the next part is some boring crap about how to contribute to the wiki.

## >He does it for free

Instructions for griefing the wiki.

- You don't have to create a HackMD account, but it's fast. You can sign up with email or github or whatever. Your default username is your signup method's username, so [change your username](https://hackmd.io/settings#general) if you signed in as something like (realname)@gmail.com
- You normally can edit two things: the navigation pane to the left, and the specific page you're on.
- The navigation pane is just a list of links to actual notes, which auto-generate into the wiki you see right now by HackMD's "book view". You can remove, add, or re-order links to notes and this will be reflected in the navigation pane.
- If you're removing a link to a note, please make sure the creator/editors of that note know about it, whether by editing the note to add a big title at the top saying it's been removed, or by contacting its creators/editors on the discord. It's not immediately obvious that a note was removed from the wiki.
- If you're adding a link to a new note, make sure to set the note's viewing permissions to "everyone", and its editing permissions to not be owner-only.
- If some idiot set their note's viewing/editing permissions incorrectly, just copy all of its content into a new note of your own and replace the link to his with yours. Don't forget to actually fix the permissions.
- Be respectful when editing notes. Don't remove stuff unless it's egregiously stupid. Try to resolve differences by contacting authors on the discord. You can organize conflicting content into separate headings, or even separate pages on the navigation pane.
- HackMD pages are written in markdown, but extended with a lot of cool features like flowcharts, UML diagrams, language code blocks, etc. Check the [features page](/features) here.