How To Contribute To The Wiki - Revision history

ScienceBall: /* Basic Editing */ How to delete pages

2025-12-11T01:53:49Z

‎Basic Editing: How to delete pages

ScienceBall: /* Names and Plurals */ MediaWiki doesn't seem to automatically redirect plural to singular, but you can use word-ending links

2025-12-10T15:05:47Z

‎Names and Plurals: MediaWiki doesn't seem to automatically redirect plural to singular, but you can use word-ending links

Siosilvar: fix mind damage again after updating template

2025-06-20T13:54:40Z

fix mind damage again after updating template

Siosilvar: correct color of mind damage template (it's orange)

2025-06-20T12:51:43Z

correct color of mind damage template (it's orange)

ScienceBall: /* Asking For Help */ Link to Discord and mention wiki channel

2022-12-30T19:46:22Z

‎Asking For Help: Link to Discord and mention wiki channel

ScienceBall: /* Things To Do */ Mention the Wiki Projects page.

2022-07-25T04:55:20Z

‎Things To Do: Mention the Wiki Projects page.

Vyn: /* ToME Versioning */ Works for pages that did not have versioning too

2021-08-15T15:40:30Z

‎ToME Versioning: Works for pages that did not have versioning too

QuixoticScamp: Added Forbidden Cults version template

2021-01-03T17:05:29Z

Added Forbidden Cults version template

QuixoticScamp: Added missing version tags, still needs Forbidden Cults

2021-01-03T16:43:12Z

Added missing version tags, still needs Forbidden Cults

QuixoticScamp: /* Before You Get Started */

2021-01-03T03:30:55Z

‎Before You Get Started

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 * [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Starting_a_new_page Starting a new page]
 * [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tracking_changes Tracking Changes]
 ==Standards, Norms, and Guidelines==

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 With a very few special exceptions, names of pages and new pages should be in the '''singular''' form. Page about Orcs? The page name should be 'Orc'. Page about longswords? The page name should be 'Longsword'.
-Why do we use singular forms? Because we will be linking these pages from other pages. The wiki software is clever enough to turn singular into plural but not backwards. For example:
+Why do we use singular forms? Because we will be linking these pages from other pages. The wiki software supports [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links#linktrail word-ending links], which let you concisely turn singular into plural, but not backwards. For example:
 You create your 'Orc' page. You link it from another page:
 <blockquote>
-<nowiki>The most common enemy in the Far East are [[orcs]]. Each [[orc]] is weak, but in groups are terribly strong</nowiki>.
+<nowiki>The most common enemy in the Far East are [[orc]]s. Each [[orc]] is weak, but in groups are terribly strong</nowiki>.
 </blockquote>
 Wikimedia is smart enough to take the plural 'orcs' and direct you to the singular 'orc' page. The reverse is not true. If you name your page 'orcs', this is what you have to do:

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 To make it bold simply change it to <nowiki>'''{{color|red|fire}}'''</nowiki> which will look like '''{{color|red|fire}}'''.
-I've added the HEX values ToME uses below, note that light and mind damage both use #FFFF00, but this is difficult to see on a white background (e.x. {{color|#FFFF00|Light}}), so I've used gold instead.
+I've added the HEX values ToME uses below, note that light damage uses #FFFF00, but this is difficult to see on a white background (e.x. {{color|#FFFF00|Light}}), so I've used gold instead.
 NOTE: sometimes, particularly with two word damage types, there are issues if you capitalize the second word, so just leave everything inside the curly brackets lowercase.
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 ||<nowiki>{{darkness}}</nowiki>||{{darkness}}||#7F7F7F
 |-
-||<nowiki>{{mind}}</nowiki>||{{mind}}||orange
+||<nowiki>{{mind}}</nowiki>||{{mind}}||#FF7700
 |-
 ||<nowiki>{{temporal}}</nowiki>||{{temporal}}||#B0C4DE

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 ||<nowiki>{{darkness}}</nowiki>||{{darkness}}||#7F7F7F
 |-
-||<nowiki>{{mind}}</nowiki>||{{mind}}||gold
+||<nowiki>{{mind}}</nowiki>||{{mind}}||orange
 |-
 ||<nowiki>{{temporal}}</nowiki>||{{temporal}}||#B0C4DE

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 # Ask on [[How_To_Contribute_To_The_Wiki/Questions| the Questions page]]
 # The [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Help MediaWiki help pages]
 # Other editors - post on their Talk pages
-# The ToME forums - http://forums.te4.org]
+# The ToME forums - http://forums.te4.org
 # The chat in the game itself!

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 Here are a list of things that you can start doing right away and are super-helpful:
 * Look at the special page [[:Special:WantedPages]]. This page shows a list of pages that don't exist yet, but DO have a link to them. The higher on the list, the more links; these are pages that we really need because there are links from all over to the page! Go ahead and create a page with the best information you have.
 * Keep an eye on [[:Special:RecentChanges]], also found on the sidebar of the wiki under "Recent changes". This will show you who has been working on the wiki, and what they've done; it's a good to know who else is working on the wiki and what they might have taken on as a project.

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 ===ToME Versioning===
-ToME is actively developed and information may become out of date. In order to help users and editors know when a page was written, we use a version notice on pages. It looks like this: {{version}}.
+ToME is actively developed and information may become out of date. In order to help users and editors know when a page was written, we use a version notice on pages. It looks like this: {{version}}
-If you are '''creating a page''', insert a version template at the top of the page:
+If you are '''creating a page''', or adding versioning to a page that did not have it, insert a version template at the top of the page:
 * <nowiki>{{subst:version}}</nowiki> for ToME
 * <nowiki>{{subst:version-embers}}</nowiki> for [https://te4.org/wiki/Embers_of_Rage Embers of Rage DLC]

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-===ToME Version===
+===ToME Versioning===
-ToME is an evolving game. Information and advice from 2013 or 2014 can be wrong by 2016! In order to help users and editors know when a page was written, we use a version notice on pages. It looks like this: {{version}}.
+ToME is actively developed and information may become out of date. In order to help users and editors know when a page was written, we use a version notice on pages. It looks like this: {{version}}.
-'''How do I use the version notice?'''
+If you are '''creating a page''', insert a version template at the top of the page:
-* If you are ''creating a new page'', add <nowiki>{{subst:version}}</nowiki> just after the page title (top of the page)
+If you are '''updating a page''', find the version table (example below) and update it to the current version of the game/dlc.
-* If you are ''updating a page'', find the version table and update it to the [[Template:CurVer|current version of ToME]]
-−
-If you are editing a page where the version block has been used, it will look like this:
   <nowiki>
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 |}
 <!-- Please update if you update the page! --></nowiki>
 ===Names and Plurals===

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 Before you get started, please familiarize yourself with the basic standards and conventions which are being used for the ToME Wiki. This will ensure a more organized, more consistent, and easier to read Wiki. It will also save you time, and let you get back to playing more ToME.
-==Before You Get Started==
+==Requirements==
-In order to be able to add or edit anything on the wiki, you will need to get a wiki account. This is not hard; it is the same as your ToME online profile. Go to the [http://te4.org/user/register ToME website registration] and create yourself an account. You also need to do this to keep an online profile for your games when playing ToME - and will be asked for it when you start the game - so there isn't any reason not to do this.
+Contributing to the wiki requires two things:
-Once you have an account, you should be able to login to the wiki with the same credentials you used above. If you log out of the ToME website, you will also be logged out of the wiki, so make sure to stay logged in!
+Once you have an account, you should be able to login to the wiki with the same credentials you used to create your ToME account. Be aware, if you log out of the ToME website, you will also be logged out of the wiki. Logging into your account via the game finishes setting up your profile. If your profile is not complete, you may be unable to contribute to the wiki. When you start playing ToME you should have the option to login via the main menu.
 ==Basic Editing==