How to edit this Wiki

How to edit this Wiki
You may have noticed an old, outdated information, or a new provider has started in the country. You’ve made some significant observation using a SIM card. Or you think some other important aspect is missing to the article, please add you contribution. There are generally two ways to add some contents or information to the article:
 * Write down your news in the comments section of the appropriate article. This is if you are unfamiliar of how to edit or not sure if it really matters or where it fitsm in the section. We will read all contributions in the comments line eventually and add the relevant information to the article. When we are talking about hard facts like prices or tariffs, a link to a source like the provider’s website or offer helps us to verify your contribution.

I know the editing system of Wikia really sucks. But we can’t change that. You need to have some experience to draw a table or add a logo. It doesn’t need to look perfect. It helps when you log in with your name, so we can get in touch with you. We'll format the articles periodically. Just stick to our Guidelines and check your edit whether it respects them. If you have messed up the article or your part of it, there is always a way to roll back and start again. But please don’t spoil the article. It has cost time and efforts to collect all information and to write it down. Like all Wikis we have our share of vandalism and junk. Don’t waste our time to erase contributions that don’t make any sense or are just advertisements. We’d rather spend the time adding new countries or more offers.
 * If you already know how to edit and are quite sure about the relevance of your supplement, you can go directly to the article and change the appropriate section. All articles but very few (like the main page) are open to the general public for editing. This is the way to update specific facts like new prices, LTE availability or a current promotion. We appreciate your amendment, but will check it like all changes done to this Wiki.

That’s why every IP address of a user who obviously adds wrong, misleading or just mostly nonsense edits to the text will be blocked for further editing on this Wiki for a year. Articles which are very much subject to vandalism may be protected for a while. Please contact the admin (Talk Page: wolfbln), if you want to edit them and it says that you need admin rights for it.

Adding a country article
We have already covered all major countries. In the last months we’d focused more on consolidating the existing articles but to add new countries.

You are free to add your country, if you live in it or have travelled it. When you are a local, try to see things from the perspective of a traveler who is going to be there for the first time.

All articles follow a certain pattern. Better look at some similar country sections before to have a blueprint and know how to structure it. Name of the article is always the name of the country. Then all GSM operators (MNOs) are listed, if applicable MVNOs too. You need to state the frequencies that are employed and give some words about coverage and speeds.

In this Basic chapter all relevant information that concern all providers should be given. Conclude it with a few words about how to purchase a SIM card or other local particularities that you have noticed.

This is followed by the operator’s section. List each operator/brand separately. Start with the biggest one, to be followed by its MVNOs or the smaller providers. WI-FI router or SIM card rentals need to be at the end of the article, if you think that they are a valid option.

Within every operator’s section start with a short profile of the operator: coverage, speed, frequencies and more. Then give advice about the availability of the SIM card / starter pack and where to top up. Integral part are the data offers: default data, packages, add-ons and more. Try to be as specific and clear as possible with the rates. This can be concluded by a rating, review or additional information about tethering or VoIP. At the end of each section should be the APN configuration and possibly a link to the operator’s website.

Finally, check the Guidelines again and see if you’ve obeyed them. Then, all you need to do is to publish your article. The admin will review it and may put some corrections, change some formats or add logos to have it in line with the other countries on this Wiki. In the end he will link “your” country/article to the main page.