Editing FreewarWiki:Guidelines

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Hello,

These guidelines should help maintaining uniformity amongst our various articles on our Freewar-Wiki. Please take heed of them if you wish to create an article.

Thank you.

== Article Creation ==
* The first character of each article title should be capitalized (the wiki software automatically capitalizes the first character in the article name). For articles in [[FreewarWiki:Namespaces|Namespaces]] (Quest:..., Clan:..., Unique:... etc.) this applies to first character after the colon.
* Please use proper spelling and grammar.
* (This especially applies when you´re intending to make big changes to articles:) You can notify others with <tt><nowiki>{{Inuse}}</nowiki></tt> that there´s work in progress on that article.
* For articles about things existing in large numbers, please use '''[[FreewarWiki:Templates|Templates]]''' ([[Help:Templates|&rarr; Help]]):

{{Templates|Guidelines=none}}
'''*''' ''See [[#Quests|below]]''.

== Items ==

Example (with source code) see: [[Template:Item]]

When creating a new item, you can use the template by entering <nowiki>{{subst:Item}}</nowiki> in the article, then clicking on '''Save page'''. After that, you´ll only need to adjust the template to the according Item, providing as much information as known to you.

In case the item is part of a Quest, please replace the link to the Quest with '''Quest Item''', lest people who want to uncover Quests for themselves be spoiled.

For books, the template <nowiki>{{subst:Book}}</nowiki> can be used; for Armor-Items <nowiki>{{subst:Armour}}</nowiki>, for weapons <nowiki>{{subst:Weapon}}</nowiki>, and for the spells <nowiki>{{subst:Spell}}</nowiki>.

== Uniques ==
Similar to the normal Items, but please use <nowiki>{{subst:Unique-Item}}</nowiki>, in the <tt>Unique:</tt> Namespace; add an <tt>Unique:</tt>-prefix in front of your Unique´s name.

== NPCs ==

Example (with source code) see: [[Template:NPC]]

When creating a new NPC article, you can - again, similar to the Item one - type <nowiki>{{subst:NPC}}</nowiki> into the article and it. Afterwards - again - you´ll only need to adjust the appropiate variables.

== Areas ==

Example (with source code) see: [[Template:Area]]

Yet again, type <nowiki>{{subst:Area}}</nowiki> and save. Adjust variables afterwards.
Detailed instructions are provided here: [[Help:Maps|Help to Maps]].

== Places ==

Please only create articles about noteworthy Places which are visited by players fairly often, lest the wiki get cluttered with article about non-revelant ones.

Example (with source code) see: [[Template:Place]]

Same procedure as before - type <nowiki>{{subst:Place}}</nowiki> and save. Again, adjust variables afterwards.

== Quests ==

Please always begin Quest-related articles with <code>Quest:</code>, so that everybody knows that this is an article about a Quest, lest to spoil people who want to uncover their solutions for themselves. Example given: '''Quest:Small magic sphere'''.

The template for the Quest articles can be found here: [[Template:Quest]].

The following agreements have been made for publishing Quest (solution/s):
#The discoverer of a Quest decides to make the solution public. In this case s/he can make it public here in an article.
#If you got the solution of a Quest from the discoverer, you should arrange yourself with him/her whether you are allowed to make the solutions public. A reasonable grace period (usually a fortnight) can be granted to him/her until the solution is put online, to give the discoverer a chance to profit from his exclusive knowledge.
#Quester can always provide the (Wiki-)team with exclusive information, which can either be made public immediately or after a certain grace period, up to a fortnight.


For publication of quests we made the following agreement:
# When the explorers decide a quest to make the solution available to the general public here, he can set this here.
# Do you have information on a quest to get someone else who is the discoverer, so you should be with him deny that you are allowed to publish the information and give him a reasonable time (allow 14 days by default) before you set the resolution so that the discovered a certain period of time may profit from his know and so does not lose the willingness to share the hard-won expertise here with us.
# Quest-Explorer can of course always approach the active members of our team, to inform the quest solutions. Here they can require that the solution after 2 weeks (or a any other smaller period) may be submitted online.

In cases two and three be use the [[Template:Questperiod]], you can do this by simply placing <tt><nowiki>{{Questperiod}}</nowiki></tt> into the according Quest article.

Thanks for your help to let the Quester have some fame for that time being.

==Uploading Files==

Please refrain yourself from uploading images that can be integrated via external pages, lest to unnecessarily burden Tiramon´s server. Thank you.

Additionally, please talk to the community if you wish to upload a reasonable image.

Uploading personal images to, for instance, decorating your User-, Clan- or Unique-page is explicitly prohibited.

[[Category:FreewarWiki|Guidelines]]