It All Starts Here
This is where you should be if you want to start helping out with the wiki.
What is a wiki and how you can help[edit | edit source]
A wiki is a collection of interlinked pages where anyone can create new pages or edit existing ones.
Yes, that means YOU can, and should help if you see any missing or false information on the wiki. Signing up for an account is encouraged but not mandatory, you can participate anonymously. Only your IP address is logged. Sign up here if you wish.
People edit wikis on their free time. If you see a page lacking content, it's because no one took the time and effort yet to add it. Maybe you can help?
How to create pages[edit | edit source]
First, make sure the page doesn't exist already by making a search. Use the magnifying glass button to start a search.
You can use these handy forms:
Create New Pages
Create a new page or
edit a pre-existing one.
Create a character page
with a preloaded layout.
Don't worry if the name of the page isn't exact: pages can be renamed, and a redirection can be put in place.
How to edit pages[edit | edit source]
To edit a page or a section, click the "Edit" button on the right of a page. Almost all pages are editable by anyone.
The other icon will take you to the wikicode editor. This is for advanced users. If you want to learn more about wikicode, see the Mediawiki help page on formatting.
Don't be scared to edit any page! If you do something wrong, changes can be reverted at any time. Feel free to help!
All changes are logged so don't worry about making mistakes. See the Recent Changes page to browse the latest edits to the wiki.
I don't know where to start[edit | edit source]
You want to help but don't know yet which page you could work on?
- There are many, many articles, topics, characters and chapters to create and expand upon pirateaba's ever-changing Innverse. See a need? Fill a need.
- Improve the various short articles by adding content. Alternatively, improve articles where the "Forsooth! Missing information!" template is used. See here for a list.
- Un-orphan or delete some Special:LonelyPages. Some might need to be deleted, others linked from the proper pages to not be orphaned anymore.
- Create the pages from Special:WantedPages, these are "red-links". Pages who have been linked to, but do not exist yet.
- If you see information that should be cited, leave a
{{cite}}to mark it for citation. - Find a page that should be deleted? Mark it for deletion by adding
{{delete}}. Give more information to the admins reviewing the deletion within within your edit details or a comment if needed! - If you know a particular chapter that can be used as a reference, here's how you can cite the online TWI Chapters.
- To follow the changes to the wiki, and to look out for new users and edits use recent changes.
- You can find a list of useful templates on Category:Templates.
- Want to upload Fanworks or Fanart? Start by checking out the Wiki's Fanworks Policy. Artist permission granted? Great! Refer to the Fanart Upload Guide.
- See Help:Editing Tools for tools that might help you during your editing journey.
Awards and Levels[edit | edit source]
This wiki uses an awards and leveling achievement system to reward editors for their contributions. These systems reward nothing but fluff and prestige.
See Help:Awards for more Awards details.
See Help:User_levels for more wiki User Level details.
Want to Discuss?[edit | edit source]
- Join the TWI Discord and hop into the Wiki Project thread.
- Leave a comment on any article or page within the Wiki
Special Projects[edit | edit source]
Archived or Completed projects are stored at Category:Archived Wiki Projects
Wiki Projects with Specific Goals or Improvement Plans
- Project:Class Overhaul Let's discuss and draft how auto-creating our class pages should work from the info we already have.
- Project:Wikipedia Draft a Wikipedia article for the Wandering Inn
- Project:Chapter Images Adding images to each Chapter's infobox.
- Wiki Data Management. Currently testing Cargo (See Category:Cargo_Templates) and Semantic MediaWiki. Torenity
- Develop Template:Ref_Draft for dual linking chapter and wiki pages. Try to add an in-line icon for Wiki. Torenity
- Main Page overhaul. Create Image cards
- Appearance Guide - Draft a standard for Appearances pages, to be added to Help:Policies.
- Create pages for characters without a page, refer to this list here, thank you Pallandor.
- Inconsistencies should be updated regarding the Stone Spears Tribe and Volume 8
- Add image cards or panels to the Main Page, for popular pages. E.g. Erin, Ryoka, Characters, Classes, Skills. etc.
- Add link to Help:Awards within UserProfile page.
- After everything else...Investigate Semantic Mediawiki, an extension that essentially turns wikis into machine-readable databases. Potential to solve our many, many manually generated lists, alternative to the resource-intensive DPL extension. Or its light-weight alternative: Cargo
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- Have an idea to improve the wiki? Add more here...