How To Contribute To The Wiki

Greetings, New Editor

So you want to help us improve the ToME Wiki! Excellent! We need all the help we can get.

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

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 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.

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!

Basic Editing

The ToME wiki uses MediaWiki. This is the same software used by Wikipedia, and users familar with editing on Wikipedia will feel right at home. Please note, however, that the ToME wiki does not support all features, templates or special extensions used by wikipedia; only the most basic, common WikiMedia syntax is supported.

For users new to editing a wiki, and MediaWiki in particular, please read these pages to learn "the basics":

• Editing Pages
• Formatting really important!
• Starting a new page
• Tracking Changes

Standards, Norms, and Guidelines

The ToME wiki is (currently) maintained by a small number of ToME enthusiasts. It's important for everyone to follow a rough set of standards, so we don't keep redoing or overdoing work. These standards can change with time, but it's best to ask first.

Here are some of the current standards and norms in place:

Talents

Talent pages all contain the name of the talent and "(talent)". Therefore a talent page, like Gloom (talent) will have a full name of "Gloom (talent)". All talent pages should keep this format. If you need or wish a shorter link, you can either setup a redirect page, or set up the name in-line in the link, like so: [[Gloom (talent)|Gloom]] which will produce: Gloom

Pages for a talent category (also called a 'tree') always have "(Category)" in the page name. Pages for a category type, which contain an entire set of categories (or trees), will include the text "(category type)" in the name. Examples are category Cursed form (category), and category type Cursed (category type). You can use the redirect or name in-line techniques above to make these "pretty" as needed.

Quests

Quests have two names: One that is visible to the player inside the game, and another which is visible to the developers who are writing the code. If you're one of these, you already know about it; either way, the consistent rule when talking about quests is to use the name of the quest seen inside the game. For example, the final quest of the game should be called Falling Toward Apotheosis. The name inside the code is "high peak", but we do not use that, as mostly players read the Wiki, not developers.

Things To Do

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Things Not To Do

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Asking For Help

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