Editing

Editing the wiki is strongly encouraged (that quote at the top of every page is for a reason), and the basics of editing any wiki can be found here: Help:Editing. However, the wiki has some unique features that require a little explanation.

Item Links

Item pages are just wiki page, and you can link to them with ordinary wiki links, eg. [[Fungus Covered Scale Tunic]] produces Fungus Covered Scale Tunic.

However, the wiki has a special way that you can use to link to items, which shows their stats when you mouseover the link. This way uses the {{: and }} characters. For instance:

{{:Fungus Covered Scale Tunic}}

produces the (hoverable) item link:

Fungus Covered Scale Tunic

Fungus Covered Scale Tunic

LORE ITEM
Slot: CHEST
AC: 21
STR: +2 DEX: -10 INT: +2 AGI: -10
Effect: Fungal Regrowth (Worn)
WT: 2.0 Size: SMALL
Class: WAR CLR PAL RNG SHD DRU MNK BRD ROG SHM
Race: ALL

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Images

The wiki (as with all Media Wikis) handles pictures slightly strangely.

Regular Pages

On a normal page, you have to add the code for the image, as if it existed, first:

[[File:SomeFile.png]]

You can also add details, like the size and whether you want it to the left or right of the text:

[[File:SomeFile.png|500px|right]]

See [1] for further details of how you can control images.

Once you've added the image code, you can either preview or save, and you should see a red link where the image would be:

If you click the link, you'll be taken to a page where you can upload the image (please don't upload an image for that link, as it's just an example).

Template Pages

However, many pages on the site, such as item pages, mob page, and spell pages, use wiki "templates". To add images to a template page, you need to know how to do so for that template, and an easy way to figure that out is to look at a similar template page.

For instance, if you look at the mob page https://wiki.project1999.com/A_Gnoll_Brewer (and click "Edit"), you'll see the way monster pages get their images is with the following code:

| imagefilename     = npc_a_gnoll_brewer.png
| second_image      = gnoll_brewer_location.png

But the same idea applies if you're adding a new image to a template page: you add the image code first, then preview or save and use the red link to upload the file.

Templates

The wiki also has a great number of templates which allow the display of various specialized type of content. These also use the {{ and }} characters, but instead of a colon they use the template name.

Era Templates

For instance, to mark a page of content as belonging to the classic era, one can use the {{Classic Era}} tag. To mark a piece of a page as belonging to the classic era, you can instead use {{Classic Era Inline}}, which produces Classic Era.

There are templates for other eras, and all of these templates can be found in Category:Era Templates.

Problem Templates

Oftentimes the wiki needs to indicate that "there is something wrong here", and so the following templates can be used to do that.

Cleanup Needed

{{Cleanup Needed}}

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Informational Templates

Talk

Most users aren't familiar with how the wiki "talks" pages work, so this template can be used to remind them.

{{Talk}}

This is a Discussion/Talk Area for a page Create a ==New Section== for each topic Sign each comment by using 4x tildes (~~~~)

Dynamic Zone Guides

There are special templates used on each of the zone pages to display NPCs and items found in that zone. These templates are "dynamic" in the sense that there is no list of NPCs/items kept anywhere in the wiki (on that page or otherwise). Instead, that page uses categories, so for instance if an item or NPC has [[Category:Najena]] on it, it will appear on Najena's dynamic zone list.

These lists do not update immediately, so if you add a category to a page it may take a day or two before it appears in the dynamic zone list.

What Work On Do?

The short answer is, anything you want! Contribute to the pages you most care about to have the biggest impact.

However, if you're looking for work that needs doing ...

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