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Welcome to the Wiki

Welcome to the Project Gorgon Wiki. If you found this page, it probably means you want to contribute.

First Steps

Setup your personal and talk pages, when you first log in, you will see your username and 'Talk' in the upper right corner click those to create your pages. Even if they are blank, this makes it easier for others to contact you. It also allows for easy collaboration when working on large projects.

Please have a brief read of MediaWiki Help on Talk Pages. Signatures, indents, and topics (headings) in Talk Pages make it easier to see how the discussion is going and who has last replied, not just for the person you respond to, but any future editors who want to get up to date on the history of an article.

Consider watching talk pages (click the star) which you are participating in, as they will be highlighted in the Special:RecentChanges.

Next, it will be helpful to familiarize yourself with some of the information to the right. This wiki uses the MediaWiki platform. If you are new to MediaWiki, some Help articles can be found on the sidebar. You can edit the wiki if you are logged into forum account. Please click that, and create a page about yourself, and a Talk Page so that people may leave you messages.

When creating pages, we would like to maintain some semblance between similar pages. You can check out the formatting guidelines page, although partially outdated. The best method is to find a similar page, and see the formatting of that page.

Finally, pick something to add. You can choose from one of the general categories below or anything that you come across that you would like to work on.

Where to Help

The following areas of the wiki need the most help:

Creature Page Updates

• Style: Most Creatures require updates to follow the Creature Template. Most pages have an outdated layout for the Miscellaneous section.
• Content: The Reported Loot sections need additional information gathered from in-game!
• Content: Images. Over 500 creatures still require quality, daytime, cropped screenshots to use in their infoboxes. You can find a list of wanted images at Special:WantedFiles, or browse Anatomy category pages. Red links are usually missing images. Click the "(1 link)" next to the red link, click the page listed below, then from that page click the image link in the article to add a picture. Try to optimize pictures a little bit in Photoshop by using "Save for Web" if your version offers it. Size it down to 400 pixels wide to reduce the file size, as most articles will display a 400px thumb.

Missing Monsters

• There may be missing monsters on the wiki. Usually, these are unique summons by bosses.

NPCs

• Style: Many NPCs are using an outdated layout for their Training section. The proper format can be found on the NPC Template page.
• Content: Most NPCs are missing their Conversations section.

Skills

• Content: Most skill pages require a few sentences to be written introducing the skill, and require elaboration of Mechanics.
  • Mechanics for Druid, Warden, Priest, and Beast Form skills need content submitted by players who are proficient in those skills.
• Content: Most skill pages require an image for their infobox. This is recommended to be a quality image of something that represents the skill.

Dungeons

• Content: Most dungeon pages require elaboration on Points of Interest.
• Content: Most dungeon pages have a sparsely populated Harvestables section.
• Content: Most dungeon pages are missing a screenshot of the in-game map, without any labels.
• Content: Comments may be added to the introductory section of a dungeon page, describing why players explore the dungeon. Are they there to collect any particular loot? Is it usually because of a quest?
• Content: Consider adding a few screenshots to highlight the sights in a gallery tag (see Dungeon Template).

Gameplay

• Content: Pretty much all gameplay/mechanics articles should be expanded upon.

Missing Pages

• Look at Special:WantedPages to see if you can start on any of the pages. And Be sure that it is not just a misspelled word! Red links on a 'normal' wiki are usually an indicator that something is missing. If that page is relevant and you can expand on that page, please do so.

Mark pages for Deletion

• If you come across an irrelevant or duplicate page and want to have it deleted, add the code [[Category:Candidates for deletion]] to the bottom of the page. One of the wiki administrators will be notified.

Spoilers

Although the Project Gorgon Wiki generally displays a large A Note About SPOILERS ! on the homepage warning users they may find unmarked spoilers, we do use a spoiler system. For the most part, if you are typing up a particular type of page, refer to the template for that type of content to see what goes into a spoiler. (NPCs, Dungeons, Skills, Abilities). Many spoiler tags are also used to collapse large lists.

Outside of existing template-defined styles, is hard to provide a Yes/No list for what should or should not go in a spoiler. The location of a dungeon should not be a spoiler. If the dungeon requires a very specific method to access, that information should probably be placed in a spoiler! The Dark Chapel in Eltibule is a good example. The existence of the dungeon is not a spoiler. The puzzle-based method to access the dungeon is a spoiler. Project Gorgon is exploration based, so some spoilers might damage potential discoveries players might make. In general, record everything, but if the topic spoils a riddle, puzzle, or is something extremely hidden, it is best to spoiler tag it.

Sources for the Wiki

Besides in-game content, a list of known sources that can be used to flesh out the wiki:

• Facebook page and photo stream (concepts and 3d renders)
• eldergame.com

F.A.Q.

Q. This wiki is too light/bright/does not look like a gaming wiki!

A: This is completely unimportant during the alpha. This wiki is hosted by the developers themselves, on their own domain. This means in due time, they may very well decide to revamp the general appearance to something more exciting. They obviously have more important things to do during alpha. What matters now is providing quality content and help for the players.

Q. The rich text editor is too basic/ the syntax is complicated.

A: It is. Consider it a new skillset. With that said, keep in mind this is collaborative work. If you don't like formatting things, simply focus on quality content. Someone else who is more into the layout and formatting will simply go over and tidy up things.