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<strong>Welcome to the financial modelling wiki!</strong>


Consult the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Contents User's Guide] for information on using the wiki software.
This is a free financial modelling resource that anyone can edit. Dive in!


== Getting started ==
== This looks like Wikipedia - why does this exist? ==
* [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Configuration_settings Configuration settings list]
Yes, this website looks a bit like [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki Wikipedia] because it uses [https://www.mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki]. We also want to take a lot of cues from Wikipedia so we are inheriting their [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines policies and guidelines], with only the exceptions described immediately below. The fundamental of Wikipedia are summarised in
* [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:FAQ MediaWiki FAQ]
 
* [https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/mediawiki-announce.lists.wikimedia.org/ MediaWiki release mailing list]
There are two ways that we intentionally differ from Wikipedia:
* [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Localisation#Translation_resources Localise MediaWiki for your language]
* We are focused on financial modelling. Wikipedia's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_notability_guidelines notability guidelines] do not apply here.
* [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Combating_spam Learn how to combat spam on your wiki]
* We allow original research. Wikipedia's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research 'no original research' policy] does not apply here. For the avoidance of doubt, Wikipedia's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_violations copyright policy] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Plagiarism plagiarism guideline] do apply here.
 
== Where to start ==
This wiki has just been created. Start by creating pages and populating them, and improving existing pages!
 
The following special pages might be helpful for finding your way around and prompting ideas:
* [https://finmod.wiki/wiki/index.php/Special:AllPages All pages]
* [https://finmod.wiki/wiki/index.php/Special:RecentChanges?hidebots=1&limit=50&days=30 Recent changes]

Revision as of 00:31, 17 December 2021

Welcome to the financial modelling wiki!

This is a free financial modelling resource that anyone can edit. Dive in!

This looks like Wikipedia - why does this exist?

Yes, this website looks a bit like Wikipedia because it uses MediaWiki. We also want to take a lot of cues from Wikipedia so we are inheriting their policies and guidelines, with only the exceptions described immediately below. The fundamental of Wikipedia are summarised in

There are two ways that we intentionally differ from Wikipedia:

Where to start

This wiki has just been created. Start by creating pages and populating them, and improving existing pages!

The following special pages might be helpful for finding your way around and prompting ideas:

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