A KoL Wiki:Established Standards
This page contains all formally established standards for creating and editing wiki pages. For standards that are not listed here, see Proposed Standards. This page assumes a basic knowledge of wiki editing.
File names
- Changes in capitalization causes new pages to be created. Please capitalize items just as they are in the Kingdom when you look at your inventory or the mall. This is particularly noticeable when you note the difference between familiars. For example hovering sombrero is the larval item, and Hovering Sombrero is the familiar. Do NOT create a new page on an item because you mis-capitalized. It WILL be deleted.
- Do not end a page name with a period, even if the title should have a period (such as The Shore, Inc.) Pages named this way can't be linked to properly, and are difficult to edit, move, or delete. Just don't do it.
- When uploading KoL images, use the same filename for the image as is used in the kingdom. If you receive an error that the file already exists, then it already exists. Do not change the filename of yours. Jick does not repeat filenames, so if we keep his, we should not have any problems. It also makes it easier for everyone to use the same files. When editing a page with an image on it, be sure of what image is being used in the Kingdom. Chances are we already have it.
Categories
- Contemplated new Categories should be discussed in forums before being implemented. As a general rule of thumb, there should be a strong and meaningful relationship between the elements being categorized. Also, there should probably be at least, say, 10 members in the proposed new category.
- When making or editing a page for an item that falls into an obvious cateogory, be sure to put that page into the category. For instance, if you were editing Hell ramen, and found it uncategorized, you would put the following at the bottom of the page:
[[Category:Food]] [[Category:Food (By Fullness)|6, hell ramen]]
The former simply categorizes Hell ramen as a food. The latter categorizes it as a food of six fullness.
- For a complete list of categories, see Special:Categories.
Item Pages
Item images should be formatted as such:
The basic item entry:
Headers
{{itemheader|image=lime.gif|item=lime}}
yields: Template:Itemheader
Descriptions
Item descriptions are two be typed out fully, in normal text, one line under the header:
Template:Itemheader This is a lime. Like a lemon, it's shaped like a lemon. Unlike a lemon, it's a lime.
Basic Item Information
Follow the Kingdom's template for bolding, capitalization, and punctuation closely.
(Cooking ingredient)<br /> (Cocktailcrafting ingredient)<br /> Type: '''food'''<br /> Selling Price: '''60 Meat'''.
yields:
Template:Itemheader This is a lime. Like a lemon, it's shaped like a lemon. Unlike a lemon, it's a lime.
(Cooking ingredient)
(Cocktailcrafting ingredient)
Type: food
Selling Price: 60 Meat.
Note: The rest of our lime example is hypothetical, and does not reflect the true nature of the lime.
Enchantment
{{enchantment|enchantment=Scurvy Resistance}}
yields:
Template:Itemheader This is a lime. Like a lemon, it's shaped like a lemon. Unlike a lemon, it's a lime.
(Cooking ingredient)
(Cocktailcrafting ingredient)
Type: food
Selling Price: 60 Meat.
Other information
We now move away from the copy of the Kingdom's item description. The following elements should be in the order described below:
Drop location
==Drop Location== *[[The Misspelled Cemetary]] *[[The Icy Peak]]
Drop locations should have bullets next to them, since an item may drop from multiple locations. They should also be links to the appropriate location page.
Recipes
==Recipe== <table cellpadding=3 cellspacing=0 border=1px> <tr align=center> <td>{{supertinker}}</td> <td>[[flange]]</td> <td>[[cog]]</td> <td>[[spring]]</td> <td colspan=2><br></td> <td>[[flange]]</td> <td>[[spring]]</td> <td>[[sprocket]]</td> </tr> <tr align=center style="background-color: #EEEEEE"> <td style="background-color: #FFFFFF">{{supertinker}}</td> <td colspan=3>[[clockwork thingamajig]]</td> <td>[[spring]]</td> <td>[[sprocket]]</td> <td colspan=3>[[clockwork doohickey]]</td> <td>[[cog]]</td> <td>[[sprocket]]</td> </tr> <tr align=center style="background-color: #DDDDDD"> <td style="background-color: #FFFFFF">{{supertinker}}</td> <td colspan=5>[[clockwork claws]]</td> <td colspan=5>[[clockwork counterclockwise dome]]</td> <td>[[clockwork key]]</td> </tr> <tr align=center style="background-color: #CCCCCC"> <td style="background-color: #FFFFFF">{{cook}}</td> <td colspan=11>[[clockwork endoskeleton]]</td> <td>[[grapefruit]]</td> </tr> <tr align=center style="background-color: #BBBBBB"> <td style="background-color: #FFFFFF">{{equals}}</td> <td colspan=12>[[unwound clockwork grapefruit]]</td> </tr> </table>
yields:
To enter the nifty icons into a table, use these templates:
Basic Recipe Types
: template:combine, {{combine}}
: template:cook, {{cook}}
: template:cocktail, {{cocktail}}
: template:smith, {{smith}}
: template:jewelry, {{jewelry}}
Special skills
: template:pasta, {{pasta}}
: template:sauce, {{sauce}}
: template:advcocktail, {{advcocktail}}
: template:armorcraft, {{armorcraft}}
: template:supersmith, {{supersmith}}
Other
template:supertinker, {{supertinker}}
template:starcombo, {{starcombo}}
template:pixel, {{pixel}}
template:equals, {{equals}}
- Note that you only insert crafting icons within the table in cases where multiple crafting skills are being utililized WITHIN THE SAME ROW. If all combinations within a row use the same skill, placing the icon on the far left is sufficient.
- Also keep in mind that on an actual item page, the item itself will not be a link; rather, the bracketing will serve to bold the name of the item within the recipe table.
