This page is a guide for editors and contributors of this wiki. All editors should aim to follow these guidelines to the extent possible.
General rules[]
- Use X for variable values (e.g. 'Catch X fish' or 'Here are X coins as your reward'. Use ?? for any details missing in the wiki.
Links[]
- When hyperlinking to URLs outside the wiki, e.g. to Wikipedia, include the links as citations rather than direct links and add a reference list at the bottom of the page (e.g. Paradise Island#Trivia).
Lists[]
For lists of items (e.g. in tables, or collated collections such as Hot News!), these should be given alphabetically as long as it makes sense. This helps avoid duplicate entries and for readers to find specific items more easily.
Images[]
Please ensure that any new images and their filenames are consistent with the style of other images used in the wiki.
Icons and info panels[]
Icons and info panels should have transparent (not white) backgrounds. Where possible, icons should also include the grey circle in the background as this help ensure icon images are reasonably sized within tables.
File names[]
Fish/creature/monster/trash images should be uploaded with the following name format:
- Info panel: XX_X_Name_1.png
- Icon: XX_X_Name_2.png
- Aquarium: Name 3D.png
Here, the first 'XX' should be a two-letter abbreviation for the destination, the second 'X should be either 'F' (fish), 'C' (creature), 'T' (trash) or 'M' (monster). 'Name' should be identical to the target page name. An example is File:AL F Spiny skate 1.png. The icons are used in fish/creature/monster templates and automatically included in pages, so it is important that these be correct.
Interactive maps[]
Interactive maps such as Map:Paradise Island make use of the MapsExtended extension (at least on PC-based browsers). The main feature of this extension used on this wiki is that it allows grouping marker categories into additional categories (in our case, "Fish", "Creatures", "Monsters" and "Trash").
For future reference, below is a brief guide to create a custom interactive map for any future destinations.
- Using the visual editor, create a new map with the destination as the name and upload a screenshot of the in-game map (once available) as the map background.
- Set marker grouping to "Off".
- Create individual categories for every single fish, creature, trash item and monster in the region.
- Create an additional category at the bottom of the list with the destination as the name (e.g. "Paradise Island").
- Now switch to the source editor.
- For every single fish/creature/trash/item category that was created, change the
idto a lowercase/no-space version of the target name (e.g. for Common Stargazer,"id": "1",should be edited to"id": "commonstargazer",). - For the "<Destination>" category at the bottom of the list, change the
idto"settings". - Switch back to the visual editor. Create a map pin called "<Destination> Setting" under the "<Destination>" category and drop it on top of the "X" symbol on the top-right corner of the map.
- Switch back again to the source editor.
- Under the marker with id:1, drop the following bit of code (see the source code for Map:Paradise Island to see how it's done).
"config": {
"sortMarkers": "category",
"enableSidebar": "true",
"disabledCategories": [
"settings"
],
"categoryGroups": [
{
"label": "Fish",
"children": []
},
{
"label": "Creatures",
"children": []
},
{
"label": "Trash",
"children": []
},
{
"label": "Monster",
"children": []
}
]
},
- Now, add the ids for individual fish/creature/trash/monster categories under each of the
"children"groups (again, see the source code for Map:Paradise Island to see how it should be done). - Switch back to the visual editor and feel free to start adding pins!
Templates[]
For similar information that is repeated across multiple pages, it is often easier to use a template that can be used consistently across multiple pages than to edit several pages individually. Templates should not be edited directly unless there is a very good reason for doing so.
For reference, here is a full list of custom templates used on this wiki:
Infobox templates[]
Text templates[]
- Template:Game updates intro - Used for standard text on the game updates pages
- Template:Discoveries introduction - Used for standard text under the 'Discoveries' header in each of the Destination pages
Table templates[]
- Template:Fish stats (currently implemented only on the Bluefish page)