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Welcome to the Allakhazam Wiki! blah
The Allakhazam Wiki pages are meant to be a community project. We look forward to seeing these sites grow over the coming months, and hope you will enjoy participating. This page is for your own reference, it is meant to be a dos and don'ts page to help clarify some of the expectations we have of our users.
The collaboratively editable text fields on the site are designed so that users of the site can update the descriptions of various elements without needing to email an administrator. Collections of pages like this are referred to here and elsewhere as Wikis.
We appreciate any help editing and updating pages which allow direct user edits. In an effort to encourage and direct the editorial feel of this, there are some guidelines.
General Guidelines
A is for Alphabetize
If your article has a list of links, or a list of anything really, more often than not, it is a good idea to alphabetize them in some way. For example, you are writing a walkthrough for a series of quests that eventually yield a reward of the Uber Sword of 1337ness. Somewhere in the article will probably be a list of all the quests involved in the chain, alphabetizing those quests would be a poor choice. An order of completion would be better.
Another example, you are compiling a list of quests that reward useful items for Black Mages. A good idea for that list would be to first, order them by the level requirement to start the quest, then alphabetize all the quests that require level 10, then level 20, and so on.
When in doubt, Alphabetize.
Conversations belong in the Forums
The Wikis are not a place to post personal triumphs over difficult monsters, or to tout your most recent plunder. Questions, personal anecdotes, and discussions about a database entry are better suited to the Allakhazam.com game specific forums which allow for replies and a threaded view of discussions.
Common Terms
Each game that Allakhazam.com covers will have their own Wikis, but they are all contained on the same servers. Different games may have pages with the same name, such as Human. Human is a very common race for many MMORPGs. It would not make much sense to have one large page for Human, that covers every game. In order to clear this up, when linking to a common term, please also use the abbreviation of the game you are referencing in parentheses.
For example, WoW and FFXI, both have pages pertaining to Special Events, but they are seperate pages. Special events leads to the WoW special events page, but Special Events Directs you to the FFXI page. Please note that the text put in parentheses does not show up in the link. This is what it should look like on the edit page, [[Special Events (WoW)]]
Description
The description field of a database entry should be based in clearly established facts about the gameplay or game world. Rathe Councilman is a vague, but accurate entry.
Overlinking
A general rule of thumb when adding content to a Wikipage is "one link, one paragraph." If you are adding content to Galka for example, you may find yourself referencing Bastok quite a few times. If you were to link every instance of Bastok, the entry may start to be overcomplicated.
However, if you start a new paragraph, and find yourself referencing Bastok again, feel free to link it.
Redundancy
Adding a link to the page you are already on is redundant and unnecessary. For instance, a link to Guidelines here, on the guidelines page, is redundant. If you feel the word needs emphasis in that sentence, try making it bold instead!
User: Pages
Every poster that has an account here at Allakhazam has a User: page tied to their account. NixNot is an example. The user tied to that page is able to protect, or lock their page from outside edits. This does not, however, keep Administrators from editing the page, only other users.
These pages are NOT the place to slander, taunt, make fun of, or otherwise belittle other users. Do not edit someone else's User: page in a malicious way. You will be served a warning, and possibly a Wikimute, or an outright ban depending on the severity.