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Wiki Tips for New Editors

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Useful Links

If you have not edited a wiki before, please read:

  1. Wiki Guideline and
  2. Mabinoger Wiki's Policy

Please don't be surprised if people get miffed if you do something that's against policy.


Question and Answer - If you have questions for editors or requests for information, please put them here or on the discussion pages of the articles.

Category:Wiki_Resources - has many useful links.


Wikipedia Cheatsheet - If you need a cheatsheet for wiki code

Media Wiki Help - For more help on advanced coding try Media Wiki's help pages (be prepared to get a headache)

General Tips for ALL Contributors

  • If you have a question or concern, or there's a uncertainty you'd like to discuss with others, use the Discussion tab on each page.
    • Typing four tildes (this ~~~~) automatically signs your name, makes a link, and timestamps
  • next to the "save page" button is a preview button. Please try to use it to avoid spamming Recent Changes.
  • Correct spelling gets you points.
  • If you're taking information from a source, make sure to link to the source.
  • If you don't know how to format something, go to a page that you think is nicely formatted and click on the "edit."
    • Don't change this code, if you want to experiment do it on your userpage.
    • Eyeball the code until you see something that you recognize
    • Copy the code in the same paragraph as the part you recognize
    • Paste it onto the page that you're working on.
    • Replace the text as needed.

Where a New Editor Can Help

Please check out:

How to Get 100% Quality Perfect Pictures in Accordance with Wiki Policy

  1. Make Mabinogi go into Window mode
  2. Open another small application, (Ex. Notepad) and resize the window to the smallest area possible.
  3. Make sure the part of the client that you want to make a screenshot of shows.
  4. Click on the title bar of the other application.
  5. Press Print Screen (Prt Scrn).
  6. File>Paste (Ctrl+V) into a photo editor (paint works too).
  7. Crop your image to desired size.
  8. Save as .PNG to maintain 100% quality (uncompressed).
  9. Rename to .png (not capitalized) when you upload the file to Mabinogi World Wiki.


Coding Tips

Making Links

  • [[Link Name]] - Simply putting brackets around a word will turn it into a link
  • [[True Link | Link as it appears]] - If you want the Link Name to appear as something else


Image Links

  • [[Image:Image_Name.ext | link=Page_Name]] - Replaces the link to an image's file page with a link to another page.


Category Links

  • [[:Category:Category_Name]] - links to the Category page itself
    • [[:Category:Category_Name | Optional_Replacement_Text]]
    • Note: Dont forget to add the first colon (i.e., ":") in front of the word "Category", otherwise the link won't be displayed, instead the category's name will be displayed on the bottom of the page and the page will be listed in that category.
  • [[Category:Category_Name]]
    • Not actually a link code but somewhat similar. This will list a page in a category and will only display the category's name on the bottom of the page using this code. The difference here, from the previous link code, is that there is no colon (i.e., ":") in front of the word "Category".
    • This code will only display the category's name on the bottom of a page, no matter where it is placed in a page's code. For this reason, the code should be placed beneath all other code on a page, as this will allow it to be easily found when editing. A page can be listed on multiple category pages, if desired, by adding this code to the bottom of the page for each category.


Linking to Specific Parts of a Page

  • [[Page_Name#Section_or_Anchor_Name]] - Provides a link from a page to a desired section header or anchor on another page.
    • [[Page_Name#Section_or_Anchor_Name | Optional_Replacement_Text]]
  • [[Page_Name#Section_or_Anchor_Name x]]
    • [[Page_Name#Section_or_Anchor_Name x | Optional_Replacement_Text]]
    • If the desired section header or anchor on a destination page is one of multiple section headers and/or anchors using the same name then use this instead.
    • Where x is replaced with the number obtained by counting down the section headers and/or anchors with the same name, till the desired one is reached.
    • There must be a space between Section_or_Anchor_Name and x.
  • [[#Section_or_Anchor_Name]]
    • [[#Section_or_Anchor_Name | Optional_Replacement_Text]]
    • Link to a section header or anchor on the same page as the link, i.e., the link page and destination page are one and the same.
  • [[#Section_or_Anchor_Name x]]
    • [[#Section_or_Anchor_Name x | Optional_Replacement_Text]]
    • If the desired section header or anchor on the same page is one of multiple section headers and/or anchors using the same name then use this instead.
    • Where x is replaced with the number obtained by counting down the section headers and/or anchors with the same name, till the desired one is reached.
    • There must be a space between Section_or_Anchor_Name and x.


Anchors

  • {{anchor| Anchor_Name}}
    • This template creates a hidden destination for a link where Anchor_Name can be replaced with any desired name (preferably relevant to whatever it acts as an anchor for).
    • Can be used instead of a page or section header as a destination for a link.
    • It does not display on the saved destination page and see the above link codes for creating a link to the anchor from another page or on the same page.


Future Content Tags

Adding {{FutureContent}} at the top/bottom of the page to mark it as future content to avoid confusion or use {{FutureContentSection}} for a specific section in the article

Adding {{FutureContent}} makes

Future content.png This article includes content that's not released in Mabinogi NA.
Some or all of the following contents are not officially released by Nexon, and the article is based on Mabinogi overseas. Details may change before the release.


And adding {{FutureContentSection}} makes

Future content.png This section of the article includes content that's not released in Mabinogi NA.
Some or all of the following contents are not officially released by Nexon, and the article is based on Mabinogi overseas. Details may change before the release.

Also, you may specify when the content will be relased by using the "at" paramater.
IE: Adding {{FutureContent|at=G13}} makes

Future content.png This article includes content that's not released in Mabinogi NA.
Some or all of the following contents are not officially released by Nexon, and the article is based on Mabinogi overseas. Details may change before the release.It is estimated that Wiki Tips for New Editors will arrive at G13.


And adding {{FutureContentSection|at=G13}} makes

Future content.png This section of the article includes content that's not released in Mabinogi NA.
Some or all of the following contents are not officially released by Nexon, and the article is based on Mabinogi overseas. Details may change before the release.It is estimated that it will arrive at G13.

Marking as Stub

  • Place {{Template:Stub}} at the top when creating a page where little or no information will be added immediately but is expected to be added at a later date.


Redirect code

  • #redirect[[link]] makes a redirect, ie. an automatic link elsewhere
    • It really helps newbies to the wiki use the search function.
    • Can also be used on pages that would have had the same content as the target page but use variations of the spelling of a target page's title or use different words that mean the same thing as the target page's title.
    • To go to a redirect page click on a link that uses the redirect page's title and do the following (if you cant find a page with a link then simply edit any page, create the link, DON'T SAVE THE PAGE, go to preview instead and click on the link);
    • This will take you to the target page of the redirect and not the redirect page itself.
    • However, immediately under the target page's title will be "(Redirected from Redirects Page's Title)". Where Redirects Page's Title will in fact not be shown but will be replaced by **whatever is the redirect page's actual title (if that wasn't already obvious).

Whatever replaces Redirects Page's Title will be a link to the redirect page, click on it and you will (finally!) be taken to the redirect page itself.

  • #redirect [[Page_Name#Section_or_Anchor_Name]] - as above but redirects links to a section header or anchor on another page. Used a lot to have a monster's name linked directly to the specific monster.
  • #redirect [[:Category:Category_Name]] - as above but redirects links to a category page.
    • As category pages cannot be "moved" then this can be entered manually to have an existing category page redirect to another category page. Note that, this can also be used to have links to a normal page redirected to a category page.
    • Note: Don't forget to add the first colon (i.e., ":") in front of the word "Category", otherwise the page won't just redirect to the desired category page but will also be listed on it (not a very sensible thing to do).


Making Lists

Simple indents

; 1111
: 2222
:: 3333
; Aaaa
: Bbbb
::Cccc
:Dddd
::Eeee
:::Ffff

Example
1111
2222
3333
Aaaa
Bbbb
Cccc
Dddd
Eeee
Ffff

Bullet points

Bullet points are made by using *, more than one indents the bulletpoint

* idea
**concept
***more idea
*idea 2
**followup 2

Example
  • idea
    • concept
      • more idea
  • idea 2
    • followup 2


Numbered list

Number signs create easy lists

# example1
# example2
# example3

Example
  1. example1
  2. example2
  3. example3

Halting wiki code

<nowiki>code</nowiki> removes the wiki code.


Hidden Text Code

{{HiddenTextStart|
|Title=Hello!
|Width=
|Display=
}}
Hi! {{HiddenTextEnd}}

Example


Wiki Table Tips

Table Template

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Column1 Name !! Column2 Name !! Column3 Name
|-
| 1a || 2a || 3a
|-
| 1b || 2b || 3b
|}


It looks like this:

Column1 Name Column2 Name Column3 Name
1a 2a 3a
1b 2b 3b

Sortable Table Template

{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Column1 Name !! Column2 Name !! Column3 Name
|-
| 1a || 2a || 3a
|-
| 1b || 2b || 3b
|}

Example:

Column1 Name Column2 Name Column3 Name
1a 2a 3a
1b 2b 3b

No First Row Table

{|class="wikitable"
|-
| Column1 Name || Column2 Name || Column3 Name
|-
|  1a || 2a || 3a
|-
|  1b || 2b || 3b
|}

Example:

Column1 Name Column2 Name Column3 Name
1a 2a 3a
1b 2b 3b

Overlapping Rows Table

{|class="wikitable"
|-
! Column1 Name !! Column2 Name !! Column3 Name
|-
|  1a || 2a || rowspan="2" | 3
|-
|  1b || 2b
|}

Example:

Column1 Name Column2 Name Column3 Name
1a 2a 3
1b 2b

Collapsible

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" style="width:400px;"
|-
! title
|-
|Content
|}


Example

Fancy Stuff

There are some predefined classes to make life easier for you and to have a more uniform design.

Pretty Tables

{| class="wikitable white_border extra_padding" |
! class="pretty" | Title 1
! class="pretty" | Title 2
! class="pretty" | Title 3
|-
! Cell 1 !! Cell 2 !! Cell 3
|}


{| class="wikitable" |
! class="pretty" colspan="4" | Title 1
|-
! Cell 1
| dummytext
! Cell 2
| dummytext
|-
! Cell 3
| colspan="3" | dummytext
|}
Title 1 Title 2 Title 3
Cell 1 Cell 2 Cell 3


Title 1
Cell 1 dummytext Cell 2 dummytext
Cell 3 dummytext


Other classes: fixed, maxed, centered, centered_cells, slim_header, wide_padding, borderless

Please test new code on a neutral page, like your User page.

If you have some CSS knowledge feel free to take a look at MediaWiki:Common.css for more (search for ".wikitable"). Please try to keep, and create (in case of existing tables), a uniform design.

Useful Categories

Although the links below go to their respective pages they do not cause this user page to be listed on any of them, due to the colon placed in front of the word "Category".


Other Information

Monster Templates

Generally,

  • Do not make up values. Use the format specified here.
    • Use "Very Fast/Fast/Normal/Slow/Very Slow" and not "Extremely Fast" for monster speed.
  • Add a comma at each triplet for a numerical value except CP.
  • Preview and check all of your links to see if they go to the correct place!


In the Field info box,

  • Link to the name of the field that the monsters appear.
    • If they are in a very specific location, use parenthesis ( ) to clarify.
  • Do not use parenthesis ( ) to indicate Field Bosses, because they should already be classified under ==Field Boss==, unless the monster is a Field Boss in one location, and then something else in another location.
    • Black Wizard is a Field Boss for Gairech Hill, but a regular Boss monster in Barri Brown Fomor Pass, therefore, you must clarify by writing *[[Gairech Hill]] ([[Black Wizard Location|Locations]]) (Field Boss) in the Field info box and *[[Barri Brown Fomor Pass]] (Boss) in the Dungeon info box.
    • If a field boss has its location specified as well as an image linking to the area, write *[[Map_Name]] ([[Monster_Location|Specified_Area]]).
  • Example:

MonsterTemp FieldEx.jpg


In the Dungeon info box,

  • List out each dungeon on its own bullet (*)
  • Use the entire dungeon's name, and link it all of the to the right place! No abbreviations such as "Adv" in place of "Advanced."
    • If you want to link to Ciar Advanced for Two, write out *[[Ciar Advanced for Two]]
    • If a monster appears in ALL Rundal Advanced dungeons (Unlimited, for Two, and for Three), write *[[Rundal Advanced]]. However, if it only appears in Rundal Advanced Unlimited and Rundal Advanced for Three, write out *[[Rundal Advanced Unlimited]] and *[[Rundal Advanced for Three]] to link viewers to the exact location.
  • Indicate in parenthesis ( ) if the monster is a boss, but do not link it. You must do this for all dungeon bosses because even though they are classified under ==Boss==, there are some monsters that are bosses in one place, but not another (ie. Werewolves).
    • Write out *[[Barri Basic]] (Boss)
  • Example:

MonsterTemp DungeonEx.jpg


In the Loot (Equipment and Misc) info boxes,

  • List everything out, and link them if possible!
    • Don't put "*Base/Mana/Sunlight Herb." Write out *[[Base Herb]], *[[Mana Herb]], and *[[Sunlight Herb]] in their own separate bullets (*) instead.
  • Make sure that Dungeon Passes link to *[[Dungeon_Pass#Correct_Dungeon_Here]].
  • Arrows, Bolts, and Magic Powders belong under the Misc section because they are technically not equipments.
  • If a monster gives regular EXP and Exploration EXP upon being defeated, follow this format:
    • <Regular_EXP_Amount> '''EXP'''<br><Exploration_EXP_Amount> '''Exploration'''
      • The template will automatically add the last "EXP" to the end of the line, so it'll appear as "Exploration EXP."
      • See Giant Sand Worm for a reference.

Useful Special Pages in Mabi Wiki

Useful Outside Resources

Foreign Wiki Links

Foreign Sites

Character Simulators

Mabinogi Music

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