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If you see wrong information, you can correct it yourself, but you may want to bring it up on * Stay in touch with the rest of the Wurmpedia team via the Discord if it seems like a larger issue. Please don't assume that incorrect wiki information is brought on by maliceor IRC.
Let's be respectful of other WAs and editors and all staff* Please don’t edit anyone’s personal page, except your own. Exception: you may remove dead (red) links. We all contribute!
For the English portion of the wiki, please Please use a decimal point (period) when referring to fractional numbers. Always specify weights with two decimal places. This avoids ambiguity between "item has integer weight" and "didn't bother to check exact weight".
This code can be used in the table start, row start, or cell start levels.
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If placed at the table start level, it will align all text within the table the way specified.
|Row 4||Row 4||Row 4
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{| border="1"; cellpadding="10;"
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If placed at the cell level, it will only align that individual cell the way specified.
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Note: When adding styling code such as this to the cell level, you need to add a vertical bar after your code, dividing it from the text your cell contains. For example, the second row in this code looks like this:
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|Row 2||style="text-align:center;"|Row 2||Row 2
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==Guidelines==
The Wurmpedia is a resource used by new and experienced players alike. It is typically the first place a new player will turn when they want to understand something. As such, we want the Wurmpedia to be as organized, accurate, and user-friendly as possible. These are some guidelines in place to help us all keep the Wurmpedia to a high standard. Always abide by Wurm game rules while editing the wiki.
==General Wurmpedia Etiquette==
* As the Wurmpedia team works as a team, we want to run any large changes past other editors and WAs before taking any steps. Trying to look at similar pages before you correct any formatting.
* If you see wrong information, you can correct it yourself, but you may want to bring it up on Discord if it seems like a larger issue. Please don’t don't assume that incorrect wiki information is brought on by malice. Don't engage in edit anyone’s personal page, except your ownwars. Exception: you may remove dead Reverts are not (redand shouldn't be) linkspersonal.
* Let's be respectful of other WAs and editors and all staff. We all contribute! * Feel free to bring up issues with the Wurmpedia to the management or direct other players to management for issues you can't resolve with wiki information. * Please report any vandalism to the wiki, but also fix it! * As of right now, the only language we are translating the Wurmpedia into is Russian. If you’d like to work on another language project (or that one!) please message the Manager or the team in general.
==Stylistic Guide==
* Please use [[wikipedia:list of common misspellings | correct spelling]] and do not use slang, [[wikipedia:texting language | 'txtspk']] or [[wikipedia:leet speak | 'leet speak']]. Example: 'You need to', not 'U need 2'.
* Spelling in Wurm is a strange and diverse mix of UK and US spelling. However, the Wurmpedia must conform to the game, not what we feel is the “right way”. So armour, but favorand liter. Check in game for other spellings.**Feel free to post a bug report for mistakes found in spelling or grammar in game.
* If you aren't a spelling and grammar pro, use a spell checker. ([http://www.iespell.com/ IE] [http://www.svarteper.com/ff/aspellfox/ FF] [http://aspell.net/ Opera]).
* Excluding proper nouns, words in page titles should '''not''' be capitalized. Use "Small metal shield" or "small metal shield"<sup>[1]</sup>, and not "Small Metal Shield". Also, don't capitalize nouns in the middle of sentences, unless they're proper nouns.
**If you use a capitalized proper noun in a page title, you must also make a redirect page with only the first word capitalized (or add it to the daily edit Discord channel and a WA will do so.)
* Don't use underscores in links - you don't need them! Example: <nowiki>[[</nowiki><font style="background:#E6FFE6;">item creation</font><nowiki>]]</nowiki> is equivalent to <nowiki>[[</nowiki><font style="background:#E6FFE6;">item_creation</font><nowiki>]]</nowiki>, and looks twice as neat.
* Use wikitext instead of HTML when possible. Example: * lists instead of <br> lists
* Try to limit use of colored text for colorblind accessibility.
* Add descriptions to new pictures. (If you need help on this, just ask!)
* Use the [[Special:Categories|categories]] and [[:Category:Template|templates]] when appropriate. Look at a similar page and see what it uses for hints.
* Use <nowiki>[[links]]</nowiki> when referring to other pages (refrain from linking the same page multiple times in the same article.)
* Much of our crafting information has been moved into the Itembox template, including dye information. Please don't add crafting instructions to the main wiki article, unless you check in with other WAs/staff. If you need help with the itembox, ask in Discord.
* Don't add specific skill gains at each skill level with a specific tool. This would be better for a guide. Please make guides!**You may add specific gated skill levels to make an item, such as 60 carpentry required to make a large crate. * Don't use dates for updates or links to posts.* Don't use information taken from WU or speculation.* We no longer add food recipes to the wiki, including links. * Avoid personal bias when editing, including personal feelings on hardware. When in doubt, take it to the talk page.
* Do not post suggestions. They belong in the forums or on IRC - not here.
* If you need to add a picture, a WA can upload it for you. Don't use a link to an outside website.
* Everything on the Wurmpedia is a work in progress, including this handbook.
=== Breadcrumbs ===
For items with only one possible size (same weight, no combine), note the number of items needed with the suffix 'x', e.g. "15x [[stone brick]]". If the item can be reduced in weight (e.g. [[shaft]]), also include the minimum weight possible for use. For other items specify the total weight needed and avoid listing the "normal" number of items used.
===Itembox===
We have moved much of the information on crafting into the itemboxtemplate, including dye information. Please don’t add crafting instructions to the main article. If you need assistance with the template, ask in the Discord.
==Namespaces==
* Appearance: Here you can change the wiki skin (I hate all the other ones!), change the way dates and times are displayed, as well as your time zone, among some other things.
* Editing: The editing preferences contain many highly useful and awesome features that you can enable to help with your editing. You can Enable section editing by right clicking on section title, Edit pages on double click, Mark all edits minor by default, warn me when I leave an edit page with unsaved changes, side-by-side preview (shown below), and more.
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===Recent Changes, Watchlist, Search===
* Recent changes: You can view the recent changes, which shows articles and files recently edited, in the Recent changes page (linked on the sidebar, as shown below). In your preferences, you can change how this page will display by default, including how many days to show, number of edits to show, you can group changes by page, hide minor edits, hide patrolled edits, and more.
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==Special Pages==
There are some special pages on the Wurmpedia which collect articles based on some criteria. These special pages can be useful for finding articles that are out of date, have incorrect links, are missing images, and more. These pages are found [[Special pages:SpecialPages|here]].
It is a good idea to check through some of these pages, especially if you are looking for something to edit but are having trouble figuring out what to do.
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|Link to the Wurm Online forums that says forums||<nowiki>Link to the [https://forum.wurmonline.com forums]</nowiki>||Link to the [https://forum.wurmonline.com forums]
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|Redirect || <nowiki> #redirect [[Target page]] </nowiki>|| #redirect [[Target page]]
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|Bulleted lists || <nowiki> *one *two **subtopic to two </nowiki> ||
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===Previewing Your Changes===
If you do choose to do this when making an article, make sure that every reference to the current page (aside from <nowiki>{{PAGENAME}}</nowiki>, which will give the name of whichever page it is currently on) is changed to that of your current article. Also be sure to check the categories, as some may be in categories that are not relevant to the new article.
===Redirects===
A redirect is a way to forward from one page to another, by placing #redirect <nowiki>[[New page]]</nowiki> in the body of a page, where New page is the proper page name that the user should be redirected to. Please use redirects sparingly as they can become confusing.
You may use a redirect in the following situations:
To forward from a page with different letter case than the main page, but has the same exact spelling.
Example: Settlement:Tap_dance may redirect to Settlement:Tap_Dance.
To forward between a User and a Player page owned by the same person.
Example: User:Keenan redirects to Player:Keenan.
Don't make double redirects. If there are multiple redirects to one page, because of spelling or condensed pages, have them all go to the end result page.
===Headers===
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{| border="1"; style="heighttext-align:100pxcenter; width:100px60%;text-alignheight:center60%;"
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|Row 1||Row 1||Row 1
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{| border="1"; style="height:100px; width:100px;text-align:center;"|-|Row 1||Row 1||Row 1|-|Row 2||Row 2||Row 2|-|Row 3||Row 3||Row 3|-|Row 4||Row 4||Row 4|}</pre> If placed at the row start level, it will only align the text within that row's cells the way specified. {| style="heightwidth:100px60%; width=100px;" border="1"; |- style="text-alignheight:left60%;"|Row 1||Row 1||Row 1|-|Row 2||Row 2||Row 2|-|Row 3||Row 3||Row 3
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====Vertical Alignment====
