Fallout Wiki:The Vault Academy

Welcome, fellow Vault Dwellers, to the Vault Academy, a re-branding of the now-retired New User Network. At the Academy, wiki users, both new and veteran, will have the opportunity to form bonds with each other and learn valuable skills at the same time. If interested, check out the available training programs below, which award certifications to those that pass, opening doors to additional tools.

Specialized training programs

Just like in Fallout with your Psycho-ingesting cowboys or your beer-swilling super sledge berserkers, our users are going to have different approaches to the wiki, and will prefer to help improve certain aspects over others. Some users are going to prefer editing, while others are going to want to focus on commenting and creating social content, while some will participate in every little thing that they can stick their radioactive thumbs into.

The Vault Academy recognizes all aspects of contributing and our training programs will cater to each facet of the wiki with mentors specializing in one or multiple different schools of training. No program is a prerequisite of another, but a general understanding of editing is beneficial before entering any program other than general editing. Users can join multiple programs at the same time, and there are no time requirements or deadlines.

General editing fundamentals are of the utmost importance from one's first edit onwards. Brand new to the wiki? General editing is a great place to start, and through the lessons will introduce mentees to the other parts of the community and other training opportunities that go along with those parts. Jumping into editing is intimidating at times, so the general editing program aims to provide a stress free environment in which new users can learn the basics, former users can brush up on current format norms, and overall providing a training regiment that will set editors up for future success by learning:

• Formatting, navigation, page management
• Article and image categorization
• Policies and guidelines, user rights
• User pages, talk pages, blogs, forums
• Icons, links, signatures, preferences
• Referencing, source texts, game data

Advanced editing is designed for editors who have a foundational understanding of basic editing, by way of the general editing program or previous experience. Lessons will be based on finding, extracting, and adding game file information as well as advanced templating and formatting skills.

• Template construction and format
• Datamining introduction
• GECK/CK
• Nifskope
• xEdit
• NukaCrypt
• xTranslate
• Redirects and what links here
• Bug verification

Technical editing focuses on the behind the scenes know-how that allows the wiki to run as efficiently as possible while maintaining an approachable and easy to read format. The wiki team is consistently in dire need of more technical-minded users that can understand and efficiently create and/or modify existing templates and portals. Upon recognizing such a user, it is imperative to introduce them to an environment that allows them to freely experiment and suggest changes. Technical fundamentals include:

• Creating and maintaining both a template and its respective /doc page
• Successfully creating a new portal page
• Proper template categorization
• Creating a multi-faceted template that requires calling upon sub-templates
• Learning how to modify the existing wiki CSS/JS, as well as learning how to create your own personal CSS/JS
  

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Leadership is about knowing the community that you wish to represent, and being able to foster a healthy and friendly environment while you lead it. Leadership fundamentals include:

• Successfully defusing and resolving disputes
• Participating as either a project lead or as a TVA mentor
• Creating and successfully seeing through both a forum discussion and vote for a desired change around the wiki
• Using edit summaries consistently to succinctly explain actions, and reliably using the minor edit option for maintenance/minimal edits
• Constructively instructing users on how to improve upon their editorial or social contributions in a non-training environment
  

• Discussions: Also known as /d, a quickly-growing social medium found across the Fandom network, instilling a casual and fast-paced environment for those looking to meet fellow Fallout fans. Mentors in this program will teach /d users how to create high-quality posts, how to prepare for upcoming changes to the /d platform, and provide the knowledge they'll need should they ever wish to help moderate and lead their newly acquired friends as Discussions Moderators.
• Discord: Another social medium for the Fallout wiki, our official Discord servers are where our users can gather around and talk freely, without the normal constraints of the mainspace wiki. Mentors are tasked with making chatters feel welcome, seeking feedback from the Discord community on how to improve upon the experience, and helping to learn the ropes in preparation to become Chat Moderators.
  

Mentors and mentees

User name	Which programs are you interested in?
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Current mentorship teams

Mentor	Mentee	Program specializations	Active
Old Man Leon	LLxMystic (Discord, general editing) LovinglyGaslight (General editing)	General editing Discord Leadership
Kdarrow	Arcaneous (General editing) Katy Webb (General editing) TheUnknownRaver (General editing) Claymantionfake (General editing) The Appalachian (General/tech editing) darrowdeo (General editing) bowndarrow (General editing)	General editing Technical editing Advanced editing
The Dyre Wolf	intrepid359 (General editing) SitOnA-Rick (General editing, Discord, Leadership) Katy Webb (Community)	Discussions General editing

Hall of Graduation

The following mentees have successfully completed their particular courses of study and have been awarded their program's respective Certificate of Completion. These graduates have been inducted into the Vault Academy Hall of Graduation as a symbol of their hard work and accomplishment. We are very proud and excited to present the following graduates in order of commencement date:

Mentee	Mentor	Program	Graduation date
Findabair	Kdarrow	General editing	09-29-2020
JCB2077	Kdarrow	General editing	09-29-2020
Todoedits	DankalorYT	General editing	11-07-2020
Eckserah	Kdarrow	General editing	01-02-2021
Hellotalos	Kdarrow	General editing	03-19-2021
ORDVAC	Kdarrow	General editing	04-14-2021
Kdarrow	FDekker	Technical editing	04-20-2021
Kdarrow	Old Man Leon	General editing	04-20-2021
Gilpo1	Kdarrow	General editing	05-22-2021

Userboxes

Copy and paste any of these on to your user page to proudly rep your alma mater!

Userbox	Code	Userbox	Code
This user is an official Vault Academy mentor.	{{User Vault Academy mentor}}	This user is a new mentee in the Vault Academy.	{{User Vault Academy new mentee}}
This user is a graduate of the Vault Academy general editing program.	{{User Vault Academy gen ed grad}}	This user is enrolled in the Vault Academy.	{{User Vault Academy}}
This user is a graduate of the Vault Academy technical editing program.	{{User Vault Academy tech grad}}	Template:User Vault Academy soc grad	{{User Vault Academy soc grad}}
Template:User Vault Academy leader grad	{{User Vault Academy leader grad}}	This user is a successful graduate of the Vault Academy.	{{User Vault Academy graduate}}
This user is a Vault Academy dropout.	{{User Vault Academy dropout}}