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Summarizing a bit (hopefully X_X) for new editors, referencing the formatting guidelines page.
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: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words Magic words]
; Extensions
: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList_(Wikimedia) DynamicPageList]
: [http://semeb.com/dpldemo/index.php?title=DPL:Manual The &lt;DPL&gt; tag]
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This wiki uses the '''MediaWiki''' platform. If you are new to MediaWiki, see the Help articles on the sidebar.
Most importantly don't let the wiki editing get into your enjoyment of the game! Set some time aside to wind down and just play. One way I do it is to take captures with Useful tools: [http://www.fraps.com/ FRAPS] and review them later in (screen captures), [http://www.xnview.com/en/ XnView]. (image browser), [http://capture2text.sourceforge.net/ Capture2Text] is very handy (capture text straight to grab text from an image and put it into the clipboard (, saves typing).
==Talk Pages==
Please have a brief read of [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Talk_pages#Editing_conventions_on_talk_pages 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.
Ideally, replies to someone discussion in any Talk Page talk pages should generate a notification, however it may does not work on this wiki yet (we'll have to ask devs to add required extensions). Consider '''watching''' talk pages (click the star) which you are participating in, as they will be highlighted in the [[Special:RecentChanges]]. Either way, structuring talk pages is very helpful. ==Formatting==Use existing pages as a guide, and for further details see the [[Project Gorgon Wiki:Formatting|formatting guidelines]] page.
==Where to Help==
The following areas of the wiki need the most help:
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; Pages that need fleshing out
: [[Oritania]] (almost empty) - [[Under the Hand]] - [[Wolf Cave]]
; IMPORTANT
: <span style="color:#F00;font-size:1.5em;">*</span> Please be aware that Eric (lead dev) has expressed interest in feeding most abilities/recipes into the wiki at some point (probably using the "Semantic" extension and formatting tables with special templates). That means you should probably not create any individual pages for recipes or abilities at this point during alpha. Doing so is not terribly useful as the wiki search will find them in relevant lists (NPCs, or Skills pages), and they may be overwritten when this data is fed into the wiki directly from the developer's spreadsheets/database. If you have knowledge of how to automate this kind of thing, please message [[User talk:Gorgonzola]]. The ''design'' of such tables can be discussed in the [[Skill Template]] page.
 
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==Formatting Templates==
See [[:Category:Template demos]] for a good overview with examples. For the full list see [[:Category:Formatting templates]].
 
If you have some template ideas, or something you'd like, drop me a message at [[User talk:Gorgonzola]].
 
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! style="width:100px;"|Template !! style="text-align:left;width:75px;"|Demos !! style="text-align:left;"|Description
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! [[Template:Quote|Quote]]
| [[Quote Template Demos|Demos]] || Quote in-game text (NPC talk, lore items, etc) and official sources.
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! [[Template:Hint|Hint]]
| - || Hides light spoilers inside a tooltip. This helps keep the layout nice as these fit "inline". Keep these hints short because they appear as a tooltip. You can not use double quotes inside, use single quotes 'like this'.
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! [[Template:Spoiler|Spoiler]]
| - || Hide big spoilers in a collapsible block. Unfortunately we can not format a table inside those! Consider using lists (bullet lists, definition lists).
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! [[Template:ItemT|ItemT]]
| [[Item Template Demos|Demos]] || This is a fun template that gives the appearance of an in-game item description. Its goal is to liven up the pages with some visuals. As for all templates, its value is that we can change the appearance later for many pages just by editing the template, so if the in-game appearance change, that is not a problem. <span style="color:red">Icons are not yet supported</span> until the Wiki has better Extensions installed (a default "empty" icon is used).
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! [[Template:MOB infobox|MOB infobox]]
| - || Create an attractive "infobox" (as is commonly used in Wikipedia) for enemies and bosses. This is another way to liven up the pages. The info card does not document everything as that is in the body of the article. <span style="colo:red">TODO</span> More parameters will be added but are limited atm due to lack of proper Wiki Extensions.
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! [[Template:MAP infobox|MAP infobox]]
| - || Create an attractive "info card" for dungeons and sub-areas (do not use for zones yet, may use a different template).
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==Sources for the Wiki==
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