Category:Help
Contents
Overview of the Help system
Tools for Editors
- Naming issues
- Categorization guidelines
- Documentation: HTML Color Codes
- Documentation: Quality - Colors used by LOTRO to designate Item Quality
- Advanced Editing Links
- Help -- links to editing information on this Wiki; a direct link to the Help page can be found in the side-menu.
- Basic Editing Information
- Advanced Editing I: Definitions and pointers
- Advanced Editing II: Techniques
- Documentation: Category Tree Extension on Mediawiki
- Wiki Statistics -- Statistics about the Wiki, page counts an the like
- Contribution Scores - Statistics about the editing in the past 30 days
- Projects are also itemized in Help Editor: Information.
Major Lotro-Wiki Projects Categorization • Character • Crafting • Creatures • Deeds • Documentation • Effects • Game Guides • Images • Instances • Lore • LOTRO Store • Monster Play • NPCs • Quests • Skirmishes • System Tools • World
Expansion projects: Mordor
The Help page is divided into four(4) sections.
General Reader Information Editor: Article Creation "Templates" Editor: Information Editor: Boilerplates
Editor: Information
- Pages in Category: Help Information contain general information of use to all Editors.
- Help: FAQ: Frequently asked questions about participation in LOTRO-Wiki
- Help: Introduction: An introduction to LOTRO-Wiki terminology
- Help: Article Creation: - Introduction: Get started creating Articles at LOTRO-Wiki
- Help: Editing: Basic Editing techniques
- Help: Advanced Editing I: Advanced Editing I: Definitions and pointers
- Help: Advanced Editing II: Advanced Editing II: Techniques
- Help: Advanced Editing III: Advanced Editing III: CSS and Tables
- Help: Tables: Basic information on creating tables
Tips for New Editors What is this language we use here?
- The code we use is called wiki markup. It has a lot in common with html, but is not exactly the same. See Wikipedia's Wiki Markup help document, for more information.
- LotRO-Wiki.com uses MediaWiki which recognizes both Wiki-Markup and many HTML commands, including CSS. Consequently, when you look at a page, you will find both on many pages. And, as you become more adept and begin playing with tables, you will discover that "CSS is your friend."
- Staying Current
- TIP: In the left column, you will see a link: "Recent discussions." That page is "dynamic," i.e. the MediaWiki engine updates it any time a change is made to a talk page. It's an easy way to "stay current."
- Red links and Previews
- TIP: When you use a Template (or any Wiki-link) on a page which you just edited, and that Template has an error in it -- typically a misspelling, it will show up on the page in "red," which typically indicates "not found," i.e. a spelling error in the name of the Template.
- Frequently the error is Singular vs Plural -- "tooltips" instead of "tooltip", for example. This will show up in a Preview as well as with a Save. It also shows up in red in the "Templates used on this page" listing at the bottom of the page, visible while you are editing it. (You may have to click on the triangle to expand the listing.)
- TIP: If you go to the "View History" for that page, and click on "compare selected revisions" (the default case is the two most recent), you will see, at the top of the page, the differences highlighted -- the old in Yellow on the left, and the new in Blue on the right.
- Removing "Stub" tags
- TIP: Many of the Creature pages you are editing (such as Fanged-stalker) will likely have "{{Stub/Mob}}" or {{Stub/Creature}} Article Management Tags (see also Article Management Tags/Display) at the top of the page to flag them as needing additional work. The needed work is typically the Lore-master inspects. Consequently, when you add the missing information, feel free to remove the Stub tag from the top of the page -- which removes the banner, and also removes the article from Category:Stubs/Mob or Category:Stubs/Creature respectively.
- Creature vs Mob
- TIP: When is a "critter" a Creature and when is it a Mob?
- Use "Mobs" when referring to enemies INSIDE an instance
- Use "Creatures" when referring to enemies OUTSIDE an instance
- How to Delete a Page
- TIP: We only give Administrators the power to delete pages, so if you see something that needs to be deleted, you can add the template {{Delete Page}} to the top. Sometimes, though, we like to keep old pages around for reference, even if they're not in the game any more. If that's the case, you can use {{Obsolete}}. It's somewhat up to your judgement, what needs to be kept around and what doesn't.
- How to Move a Page
- In the upper right corner of the page next to the "Search" box is a "down arrow." When you mouse over it and click on it, a drop-down appears allowing one to move a page.
- A new page will open where you can easily "fix" the name or the spelling. A one word reason is sufficient -- i.e. Typo; Spelling, etc.
- Changing the "Namespace" is rarely necessary.
- TIP: If you simply "misspelled" or "misnamed" a page, uncheck the "Leave a redirect behind" box.
- TIP: When you move a page if it doesn't get the "disambigpage" entry also changed, the page does not display correctly -- the "tool-tip" entry displays on the left instead of the right. This is true of most pages when they get moved.
- The matching of the page name parameter is not required, but is nice.
- However, some templates require that the "name" and "disambigpage" entries match in order to trigger certain categorizations.
- And always, refer to this for useful information.
Tools for Editors
- Naming issues
- Categorization guidelines
- Documentation: HTML Color Codes
- Documentation: Quality - Colors used by LOTRO to designate Item Quality
- Advanced Editing Links
- Help -- links to editing information on this Wiki; a direct link to the Help page can be found in the side-menu.
- Basic Editing Information
- Advanced Editing I: Definitions and pointers
- Advanced Editing II: Techniques
- Documentation: Category Tree Extension on Mediawiki
- Wiki Statistics -- Statistics about the Wiki, page counts an the like
- Contribution Scores - Statistics about the editing in the past 30 days
- Projects are also itemized in Help Editor: Information.
Major Lotro-Wiki Projects Categorization • Character • Crafting • Creatures • Deeds • Documentation • Effects • Game Guides • Images • Instances • Lore • LOTRO Store • Monster Play • NPCs • Quests • Skirmishes • System Tools • World
Expansion projects: Mordor
- A guideline is similar to a set of rules and standards. The main difference is that a guideline does not need to be followed to the letter and does not have any serious consequences in such cases. Here on LOTRO-Wiki, all content that has a guideline as reference should be edited until it meets those definitions, but exceptions can be made with valid reasons.
- Pages in Category: Guidelines contain "rules" or "recommendations" for working with a certain topic or domain in the wiki.
- Guidelines: Editing Guidelines
- Help: Crafting: Creating Crafting pages
- Help: Creatures: Creating Creature pages
- Help: Items: Creating Item pages
- Help: NPCs: Creating NPC pages
- Help: Quests: Creating Quest pages
- Help: Recipe Index: A description of the Recipe Index Page (for crafters) formatting
- Help: Deed -- Redirects to Template: Deed
- Help: World Instances
- Help: Guidelines -- A brief summary of some common guidelines
- Help: Manual of Style: Lotro Wiki Manual of Style
- Help: Spelling and Punctuation: Rules and techniques, especially for "Special Characters"
- Help: Names: Namíng issues
- Help: Categorization: Categorization Guidelines
- Help: Citation: Technique for creating citations (references) in an article
- Help: Images: Creating Images and Icons for upload
Editor: Templates
Editor: Article Creation "Templates"
- Pages in Category: Article Creation contain "Create Article" templates utilizing The MediaWiki "Create Article" extension.
- Each page in this category should have a matching page in Category:Boilerplates.
- Each page in this category should have a matching page in Category: Template Preloads.
- Create new character - Player Characters
- Create new creature - Creatures
- Create new deed - Deed
- Create new effect - Effects
- Create new item - Items
- Create new item set - Item Sets
- Create new kinship - Kinships
- Create new legacy - Legacies
- Create new location - Locations - Simply points to the 4 boilerplates for Locations.
- Create new NPC - NPCs
- Create new quest - Quests
- Create new recipe - Recipes
- Create new skill - Skills
- Create new title - Titles
- Create new trait - Traits
Editor: Boilerplates
- Pages in Category:Boilerplates contain individual Boilerplates and related information for Editors.
- Most pages here will have a corresponding entry in Category:Article Creation.
- Boilerplates should transclude the corresponding Template <name>/doc file and normally, a Template <name>/Preload file.
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IMPORTANT: Boilerplates easily become out of sync with Templates and their /doc and /Preload files |
- Boilerplates - Documentation
- User:Magill/Project-Documentation common parameters - ??
- Boilerplate:Creature - Creatures
- Boilerplate:Deed - Deeds
- Boilerplate:Effect - Effects
- Boilerplate:Item - Item
- Boilerplate:Item Set - Item Sets
- Boilerplate:Kinship - Kinship
- Boilerplate:Legacy - Legacy
- Location Boilerplates -- No individual "Create Article" exists
- Boilerplate:NPC - NPC
- Boilerplate:Player Character - Player Character
- Boilerplate:Quest - Quest
- Boilerplate:Recipe - Recipe
- Boilerplate:Reputation Faction - Reputation Faction
- Boilerplate:Skill - Skill
- Boilerplate:Title - Title
- Boilerplate:Trait - Trait
Help System Category Tree
This: <categorytree mode=all,depth=2>Help</categorytree>, like the Category page itself does NOT display the pages which are indicated. See especially Sub category: Guidelines
Subcategories
This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
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Pages in category "Help"
The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
