Welcome to the Horrible Histories Wiki! This wiki is about the book series, magazines, television shows, poor jokes of the Horrible Histories franchise, and anyone can edit! We currently have 590 angry articles and with your help we could get even more! You can look at the Tutorial to help you find information on how this wiki. You are allowed to add content to the articles, but do not vandalize them!

New to wikis?

• If you are new to wikis, you may want to read the tutorial.
• There is some advice on getting this wiki started at Help:Starting this wiki.
• A list of most help pages can be found on Help:Contents and in Category:Help.

How to help out

• If you want to help but you're not sure where to start, try improving the various stub articles by adding content.
• Another helpful activity would be to check the list of wanted pages for frequently linked-to articles that don't exist yet.
• To follow the changes to this wiki, and to look out for new users and edits use recent changes.
• You can find a list of useful templates on Category:Templates, some of which are documented on Horrible Histories Wiki:Templates.
• If you need help editing, you could start with Help:Editing or the tutorial.

Want to discuss stuff?

• If you want to discuss anything specific to an article, you can use the talk page for that article.
• For more general discussions you can use the Discussion tab of this page, or a Forum if the forums have been set up.

Administrators

Administrator abilities

These additional functions include:

• Deleting and undeleting pages, page histories, and uploaded files.
• Locking (protecting) a page so it cannot be edited or renamed by users without admin rights or autoconfirmed status.
• Blocking IP addresses or user names from editing; and very quick "rollback" of undesirable edits.
• Editing the interface by changing system messages and skins.

Bureaucrat abilities

A bureaucrat can make other users into bureaucrats or administrators on their own wiki.

Bureaucrats can also give users the ability to "rollback" edits not made in good faith.

Staff

Horrible Histories Wiki staff members have full access to all Wiki. They will be shown in Special:Listusers/staff on any wiki. Please use Special:Contact to contact Wiki staff.

Who are this wiki's administrators?

The "founder" of a wiki, the person who first requested it, is given administrator access automatically. Founders are also given bureaucrat access so they can make any other user on their wiki an administrator or bureaucrat. For a complete list of users with administrator access, see Special:Listusers/sysop.

You may also wish to list them on this page.

• User:Example

How do I use administrator powers?

See Help:Administrators' how-to guide for a guide on using admin functions.

Becoming an administrator

For you to become an administrator, someone with bureaucrat access must make you one. On larger Wikis, there will usually be a community page for requests, with a page name such as "Horrible Histories Wiki:Requests for adminship". On a smaller wiki, you may simply ask on the community portal or Forum, or ask a bureaucrat directly on his or her talk page.

If there are no active bureaucrats, use the "Requests for adminship" page to nominate users to become admins or bureaucrats. Once a community decision has been reached (or if there is no active community to debate the decision), please leave a message at the wiki adoption requests page and Wiki Staff can provide the rights.

What can administrators not do?

Administrators should not use their administrator powers to settle editing disputes; for example, to lock a page on a version he or she prefers in an editing dispute that isn't vandalism. Administrator powers should be used to help keep the wiki clear of vandalism, spam, and users who make malicious edits, but not for simple disagreements between users acting in good faith. Ideally an admin shouldn't be considered "in charge". The ideal admin is just someone who is trusted to have a few extra buttons and to use them for the benefit of the Horrible Histories Wiki community.

Things to do

Some other interesting pages

• Want to find out what you've done so far? Visit your contributions page.
• Find out more about the wiki on Special:WikiaStats, Special:Statistics and Special:Version!