Roar! The Dino Wiki is here!
Welcome to The Dinosaur Wiki!
The Dinosaur Wiki is a brilliant wiki about dinosaurs that anyone can edit!! (Well, we think it's brilliant).
If you have any queries about the wiki or want to have some power in our dino community, then contact a Founder, (or a bureaucrat if the Founders are too busy, which is very likely). Please use the button underneath the "Search Dinosaur Wiki" box to find the most appropriate Founder for your needs. If you want to become part of this fabulous wiki, create an account today by clicking the "Create Account" box in the top right hand corner of the screen. We all hope that you have a long and enjoyable stay on this wiki, and stack up lots of edits, and to make our wiki One Wiki To Rule Them All! (evil laugh). Happy editing to all!
New Rewards Scheme
We are going to be giving out medals for you to proudly display on your userpage and talk page when you reach certain edit milestones.
Check out the medal list to find out when you're due your next medal!
Article Target
The Founders have decided that we want this wiki to have 80 articles by the end of May 2010, so get creating pages now and there might be a promotion for whoever creates the most. Be sure to keep a log of which pages you've created!
That's 80 ARTICLES!
FEATURED ARTICLE - May 2010
Reason for this article winning the FA vote: "Detailed, a nice image, follows the style guide, and just what we want on this wiki. A very impressive article".
Also, congratulations to T-Rex 882, who created the page, and Raptor 225, who made it fit to be a Featured Article, for creating May 2010's Featured Article!
NOTICE TO EVERYONE!
Do you have an article that you are particularly proud of? If you are of rank sysop or up, start preparing it for June's Featured Article vote! Images, detailed views and interesting facts all get recognised in the FA vote. If you are not a sysop, you might want to prepare an article, then try and persuade a sysop or bureaucrat to nominate it for you!
Notice to immature and mindless vandals
If you are an immature and mindless vandal, please go to the Spam Box (there's a link underneath search bar). Don't vandalise a normal page, you'll just get blocked for ever...and ever...and ever...Oh, you get the idea. NO VANDALISM!
Notice to users
Check out our Featured Articles! They now feature tribute videos to their dinosaur! Sysops and higher ranks, please keep an eye on them to make sure they are not vandalised.
Dino News
This section is for any interesting ( not Boring!) news you may have about dinosaurs, for example, new finds or a new interesting fact. Do not put anything on that is boring news beacuse it is, well, boring. If you wish to put some news on this section you must contact ADK46, the bureaucrat in charge of this section. Founders and bureaucrats, that goes for you too! (we mean it!). Also, only the four newest news posts will be shown here on the main page. If you'd like to see past news, click here to take a look at the Dino News Archives.
No news yet for May 2010. If you have any interesting news contact ADK46.
Wiki News
This section is for news about the wiki.
- Just in case you missed it, the 60th article, Kentrosaurus, was created on April 30th by T-Rex 882.
- 4th May 2010 - Troodon145 reaches 200 edits.
- 5th May 2010 - Chasmosaurus is promoted to sysop status by T-Rex 882.
- 7th May 2010 - The Edit Medals rewards scheme is launched!
- 8th May 2010 - T-Rex 882 reaches 1,200 edits to the wiki!
- 10th May 2010 - Chasmosaurus reaches 100 edits and is awarded the Basic Edit Medal.
- 15th May 2010 - The 70th article, Pterodactylus, is created by ADK46.
For past news, see the archives.
Creating Pages
To create a page, click the “Create a new article" link. You can find it underneath the list of links underneath the "Search this wiki" box.
How our Wiki came to be
This wiki was founded by three school friends, T-Rex 882 (Actual creator of the wiki), Gigantosaurus 001 (His idea to make a new wiki) and Raptor 225 (Decided the subject of dinosaurs) after the creation of a few other wikis which turned out as failures. After the creation of a few pages they decided to recruit a few people and grant them (rather generously) higher ranks in exchange for them to create pages and follow the rules of the wiki (see the link above). Long Live The Dinosaur Wiki, and may it be One Dinosaur Wiki To Rule Them All!!
Taken usernames
We would prefer the dino name and 3 numbers, but we don't care as long as it does have letters and numbers. However, your name must not contain any of these dinosaur names, as they are already in use.
T-Rex, Raptor, Gigantosaurus, Troodon
If your username contains an already taken dino name, you will be permanently blocked, so be original.
Official Partnership
Dinopedia is a large wiki which has promised to assist us in becoming larger as well, and so we have entered into an official partnership. Feel free to check it out, they’re going to support us in growing larger.
(And we control it now, so just check it from time to time, let a Founder know if something's wrong).
Users with powers
The following users have special powers on this wiki. The higher users have all the powers of the lower users, plus their own powers:
Legendary Founder (Highest): T-Rex 882
Founder: Gigantosaurus 001, Raptor 225.
Legendary Bureaucrat: Nobody yet!
Bureaucrat: ADK46, Troodon145.
Legendary Sysop: Nobody yet!
Sysop: Station7, Chasmosaurus
Rollback: NicoDino.
Rollback posts still available. Contact a Founder if you are interested in a rollback post.
WARNING: IF YOU DO NOT FOLLOW THE RULES, YOUR POWERS WILL BE REMOVED, AND YOU WILL BE BLOCKED! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
FINAL WARNING: IF YOU HAVE NOT TAKEN HINT FROM THE WARNING ABOVE, LET ME EXPLAIN. WE CAN BLOCK YOU IN UNDER 30 SECONDS FOR THE SMALLEST OF REASONS IF WE ARE IN A BAD MOOD. SO DON'T STEP OUT OF LINE, OR ELSE!!!!