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Well then. I'm surprised this hasn't been brought up before. I think somewhere on the wiki, we should mention how free services such as Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, etc. can be used to create profiles (except for adding a picture). There are benefits for using these, such as:
1. Time Saving: If you don't have the time to create a whole profile, you can start it in let's say, Google Docs and then come back and finish it later. This way we can reduce how many users accidentally make incomplete profiles because they thought they could save it.
2. Collaboration: For some bigger profiles, pages, or those that you just need some help on, in Google Drive, you can have multiple people working on a profile/page simultaneously, and it is a cloud service, so everything is saved on the cloud with no progress lost.
3. Save Progress: As I mentioned in time saving, this can be a way to save progress before publishing the official profile on the wiki, but it can also be used it reverse, say if you are making a major edit, and wikia starts glitching or something unexpected happens that makes you lose all your progress. You can simply copy and paste the source code to one of these services, or even a simple Wordpad installed on your computer or mobile device and that way, you don't have to do everything all over again.
This is just something I think is neat that a lot of us do, but not the majority of the community knows about, so it should be mentioned somewhere, perhaps on the Editing Rules page as a tip/note of sorts.
1. Time Saving: If you don't have the time to create a whole profile, you can start it in let's say, Google Docs and then come back and finish it later. This way we can reduce how many users accidentally make incomplete profiles because they thought they could save it.
2. Collaboration: For some bigger profiles, pages, or those that you just need some help on, in Google Drive, you can have multiple people working on a profile/page simultaneously, and it is a cloud service, so everything is saved on the cloud with no progress lost.
3. Save Progress: As I mentioned in time saving, this can be a way to save progress before publishing the official profile on the wiki, but it can also be used it reverse, say if you are making a major edit, and wikia starts glitching or something unexpected happens that makes you lose all your progress. You can simply copy and paste the source code to one of these services, or even a simple Wordpad installed on your computer or mobile device and that way, you don't have to do everything all over again.
This is just something I think is neat that a lot of us do, but not the majority of the community knows about, so it should be mentioned somewhere, perhaps on the Editing Rules page as a tip/note of sorts.