Introduction
Lessons are brief, show some examples of the content, and sometimes end with a short quiz or task to accomplish. When all the lessons are complete, graduates will have a good foundation of knowledge and solid support system to help them succeed into the future.
After all lessons are complete, mentees will take an overview test and then be awarded a diploma and a place of honor among their peers in the esteemed Vault Academy Graduation Hall.
Your Mentor
My user name is Kdarrow, or Kate, and I am excited to help facilitate your progress through the program. I serve as an administrator here at Nukapedia and second in command in the Vault Academy. I have a good deal of experience editing across Fandom and love it, but my number one interest is working with and helping new editors learn, develop a good foundation of knowledge, and gain confidence.
My level of interaction during your progress is completely up to you. The entire program can be done on your own, you can ask me questions as needed, we can complete the lessons together, or anything in between. We can chat via my talk page or through the Dataminer or Nukapedia Discord (kdarrow#2077). Please direct message or ping me anytime and know that you can feel comfortable asking me any type or number of questions. I am here to support you and I am happy for the opportunity.
So without further ado, you will find all the lessons below if you would like to dive in or just take a look. In any case, on behalf of myself and the Vault Academy, welcome!
Badge awards
Can you collect all the Vault Academy badges
before something non-descriptly terrible happens? Let's find out!
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Section I
Lesson 1: Introduction
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| Introduction Lesson No quiz |
Purpose Collaboration Assuming good faith Ask questions |
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Earn your Bubblegum Vault Boy badge for reading lesson 1! |
Lesson 2: Layout
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| Layout Lesson Quiz 2 |
Name spaces Article layout Batching edits |
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Earn your Have a Charleston Dam Good Time badge for lesson 2! |
Lesson 3: User and talk pages
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| User and talk pages Lesson Quiz 3 |
User pages Talk pages Signature use |
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Earn your Donut With Limbs badge for completing lesson 3! |
Lesson 4: Format basics
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| Format basics Lesson Quiz 4 |
Article format basics Capitalization Linking |
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Earn your I Can't Spell Equieidae badge for completing lesson 4! |
Lesson 5: Tables
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| Tables Lesson Quiz 5 |
Background Basics Format options |
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Earn your Kate's Little Helper badge for completing lesson 5! |
Section II
Lesson 6: Community tour
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| Community tour Lesson Quiz 6 |
Intro to discussions Intro to blogs Intro to Discord Use of forums |
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Earn your Friendly Liberators badge for completing lesson 6! |
Lesson 7: Sandboxes
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| Sandboxes Lesson Quiz 7 |
Purpose and benefits of sandboxes How to create and delete sandboxes |
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Earn your To the Far Beyond badge for completing lesson 7! |
Lesson 8: Templates, part one
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| Templates, part one Lessons Quiz 8 |
Icons Linkable Userboxes Quotation |
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Earn your Derpderpid badge for completing lesson 8! |
Lesson 9: Templates, part two
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| Templates, part two Lessons Quiz 9 |
Clarify Citation needed Bugs (platform, verify) Merge Behind the scenes |
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Earn your Three Eyed Robot Man Thing badge for completing lesson 9! |
Lesson 10: Summaries
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| Summaries Lessons Quiz 10 |
Gameplay overviews Disambiguations |
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Earn your Trustworthy Gradient Background badge for completing lesson 10! |
Section III
Lesson 11: Infoboxes
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| Infoboxes Lessons Quiz 11 |
Infoboxes Navigation links For template Main, see, see also template |
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Earn your Probably an Atomic V-8 badge for completing lesson 11! |
Lesson 12
Lesson 12 is under construction, so you can move on to lesson 13!
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| Navboxes Lessons Quiz 13 |
Navboxes |
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Earn your Northern Minnesota Eyeball badge for completing lesson 13! |
Lesson 14: Page management
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| Page management Lessons Quiz 14 |
Page management Stubs Section needed |
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Earn your Shiny Commonwealth Pip-Boy badge for completing lesson 14! |
Lesson 15: Transclusions
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| Transclusions Lessons Quiz 15 |
Uses Application Bugs |
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Earn your Toy Car That's Everywhere badge for completing lesson 15! |
Section IV
Lesson 16: Categories
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| Categories Lessons Quiz 16 |
Types Avoiding duplicates Catmore template |
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Earn your ZAX Fan Club badge for completing lesson 16! |
Lesson 17: Images
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| Images Lessons Quiz 17 |
How to add images Standards for images Labeling and categories Format options Special pages for images |
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Earn your Some Sort of Small Gun badge for completing lesson 17! |
Lesson 18: Redirects
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| Redirects Lessons Quiz 18 |
How to redirect and categorize What links here tool Navbox and transclusion glitches Empty redirects Special pages for redirects |
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Earn your Just Vibin badge for completing lesson 18! |
Lesson 19: References
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| References Lessons Quiz 19 |
Types of source texts Formatting guide |
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Earn your Helpful Subjugator badge for completing lesson 19! |
Lesson 20: Canon
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| Canon Lesson Quiz 20 |
Games Referencing |
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Earn your Understandably Terrified Editor badge for completing lesson 20! |
Final exam
| Lesson | Topics | Badge | Badge description |
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| Final exam | Comprehensive final exam | 
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Earn your Not Smelly Vault Suit for graduating Vault Academy! |
See also
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