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The '''New Chapter Guide''' lays out the steps and processes [Wiki Warriors] are to follow when a new chapter has been published. It ensures that all related articles, sections, modules, and references are updated in accordance to a new chapter release. Examples for each step are linked within their respective numbered step.  reach out to a [[Project:Staff|staff member]] or leave a comment here.

Contributors must wait for Patreon chapters to become public before proceeding. See [[Help:Policies#Patreon|the wiki's Patreon policies]] for more information.

== Order of Actions ==
Create the Chapter page if someone hasn't already. You can use the [[#Chapter Page Layout]] below. Note that pirateaba usually uses <tt>’</tt> as apostrophes and <tt>–</tt> as dash. Best practice is to just copy-paste their chapter title as the page name. Now fill in at least the underscores and the Infobox. If you are lucky, there is even a fitting image for the chapter. In that case remove the <tt>&lt;!--</tt> and <tt>--&gt;</tt> and add in the image (see [[Help:Policies/Fanart Upload Guide|here]] how to upload a new image). 
Add sub-categories from [[:Category:Chapters]] as fitting. Save the page.

If you newly created the page, there are a few more steps to do before you add the chapter content:
# Go to the previous chapter and add this new chapter to <tt>nextChapter=</tt>, for example <tt>nextChapter=<nowiki>[[Chapter 9.66]]</nowiki></tt>. If the chapter has something like "Pt. 1" in its name, add a '''n'''on-'''b'''reaking '''sp'''ace (<tt>&amp;nbsp;</tt>) to the display of the chapter link, for example <tt>nextChapter=<nowiki>[[Chapter 9.67 (Pt. 1)|Chapter 9.67 (Pt.&amp;nbsp;1)]]</nowiki></tt>. It will look nicer if the part number isn't alone in the second line of the Infobox.
# Go to the volume page and add the chapter to the chapter list.
# Go to the tl;dr tab of the volume and add the chapter to the tl;dr table.
# In case you added a sub-category from [[:Category:Chapters]] to the page, add this chapter to the respective pages of these sub-categories if applicable.

If it wasn't you who created the chapter page you can still check if these points have been done by others and if not, do them yourself.

=== Writing a Synopsis ===
A synopsis is a detailed summary of the chapter. It should be at least one paragraph long and at most one page on paper if printed.

=== Writing a tl;dr ===
A tl;dr (short for "too lazy; didn't read") is an extremely short summary of the chapter. It should be at most 3 to 5 short sentences long. Look at the tl;dr as a very abbreviated version of the synopsis. tl;dr's are important to create arc overviews later on.

== Chapter Page Layout ==
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'''Chapter ___''' is the __th chapter of [[Volume _]].

==tl;dr==
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==Synopsis==
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==Characters==
( * = First Appearance)
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