WikiChristian:Community portal
Our shared purpose: WikiChristian is a free Christian encyclopedia, textbook, library and community. We seek to explain the Christian faith, preserve useful Christian writings, make the Bible easier to study, and help people know more about Jesus Christ. Before contributing, please read the Statement of Faith and Page Layout and Writing Guide.
Whether you have five minutes or can serve regularly, there is a place for you.
- New to WikiChristian? Read About WikiChristian and explore the Main Page.
- Want to contribute? Visit Become an editor and create or improve your user page.
- New to wiki editing? Work through the editing tutorial and practise in the sandbox.
- Need guidance? Follow the writing guide and ask on the community portal talk page.
- Ready to help? Choose a task below, make a focused improvement, explain your edit and cite reliable sources.
Expand short articles, create carefully researched wanted pages, clarify difficult language, add helpful headings, and connect related subjects with meaningful internal links. Begin with the core subject tree at Christianity.
Improve introductions to Bible books, summaries of chapters, pages about Bible characters, parables, biblical places and themes. Learn how WikiChristian stores and displays Scripture at WikiChristian:Bible.
Help organize Christian music, Christian literature, sermons, testimonies, biographies of Christians, church history and public-domain texts. Respect copyright and identify the source and licence of every contribution.
Welcome good-faith newcomers, answer questions, discuss disagreements graciously and help editors learn wiki conventions. If a topic is disputed, describe major Christian views accurately and without hostile or dismissive language.
| Time available | Suggested task | Good starting points |
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| 5 minutes | Correct spelling, grammar, a broken link or unclear wording. Add a useful category to an uncategorized page. | Random page · Uncategorized pages · Broken redirects |
| 15–30 minutes | Improve a lead section, organize headings, add internal links or verify one factual claim with a reliable source. | Short pages · Dead-end pages · Orphaned pages |
| About an hour | Expand an important stub, summarize a Bible chapter, improve a biography or add balanced coverage of a doctrinal question. | Wanted pages · Bible · Christian doctrine and debates · Famous Christians |
| Ongoing service | Adopt a subject area, review recent changes, welcome contributors, maintain templates or help with technical and policy work. | Recent changes · New pages · Administrators |
- Write for readers. Explain theological terms and make articles useful to newcomers as well as students and ministry workers.
- Be faithful and fair. Work within WikiChristian's Statement of Faith. Where Christians disagree, identify the views and represent each carefully.
- Support factual claims. Prefer reliable published sources. Add citations with
<ref>Source details</ref>and place<references />near the end of an article. - Use your own words. Do not copy copyrighted books, websites, sermons, lyrics or images without permission and a compatible licence.
- Link and categorize. Add useful internal links, relevant categories and navigation to related topics without over-linking every occurrence.
- Collaborate graciously. Explain substantial changes in the edit summary and use talk pages when consensus is needed.
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Scripture and theology |
Church and Christian life |
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People and culture |
Reference projects |
Use this section for brief, current announcements. Add the newest item at the top and sign discussion comments with ~~~~. Move detailed discussion to the talk page.
- Community renewal: Editors are invited to help review foundational pages, repair outdated links and identify priority articles for expansion. Please share suggestions on the talk page.
- Review the WikiChristian tutorial.
- Experiment safely in the sandbox.
- Ask a question on the community talk page.
- For sensitive or site-wide issues, contact a WikiChristian administrator.
☐ Is the opening understandable on its own?
☐ Are quotations and claims sourced?
☐ Are differing Christian views represented fairly?
