User:Kachelofen/Wiki help

Wiki Editing

General insctructions on how to use the wiki

• First and foremost: You can always ask and search in the official Discord.
  (The Discord is linked at the top of the main page: https://www.poe2wiki.net/wiki/Path_of_Exile_2_Wiki )

• If you need help with formatting your edits, be sure to check the MediaWiki help pages!
  (Example: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting)

• PoE2Wiki is a MediaWiki. If you google something like "mediawiki tables" you will find help in creating tables.

Page editing and creating

• If creating new pages: Copying content from other similar pages is often a good start to get the right structure. Jjust make sure to adjust it to the new page to avoid false cross-referencing and reader confusion.
• If you don't know how to start your edit and only know the text you want to write down, look for pages with a similar section of what you want, click "edit" and simply copy the needed parts. (Don't change the other page)

• There isn't any convention that requires color coding anywhere. If you see something you like on other pages, use it.
  • Using unique/rare colourcode for monsters is generally used for monster lists, to help discern bosses. It's not really necessary to use it inside of article text or templates.
  • Color coding can be quite helpful with crafting related stuff.
  • Usually you would only use {{c|normal|normal}}, {{c|magic|magic}}, {{c|rare|rare}} and {{c|unique|unique}} which result in normal, magic, rare and unique. These are useful to eg. describe a "rare chest" or a "magic flask".

• Don't implement empty sections and headers
• If something is available in the game, but not yet in the wiki and you require game data, don't make anything up, use actual game data (see "Dataming" further below for instructions) or ask in the Discord.
• {{PAGENAME}} is only used as a wildcard in templates, not in content pages. Use the actual name inside your article.

Item pages

• When editing item pages, be careful with data in the {{Item template at the top. A lot of those entries are taken directly from game data and don't need to be changed at all.
  • drop_text for example is a non-database entry. Here you can enter custom text, that helps with finding this item.
  • Careful: help_text, although seeming similar to drop_text is indeed a database entry, and is not to be changed, unless it is taken from the gamefiles (again, see "Dataming" further below for instructions).

Help with image usage

• If items have the same icon, can we crossreference them?
  • Yes, use inventory_icon = <other page name>

• If quests have the same icon, can we crossreference them?
  • Yes, but we don't use icon for this, we put a file redirect. Otherwise the embedded icon won't properly be linked and shown.
  • Example: https://www.poe2wiki.net/index.php?title=File:Utopia_quest_icon.png&redirect=no (Quest is Utopia)

• If you're uploading new files, try to find the correct category and enter it directly in the "summary".
  (An example would be [[Category:Unique monster screenshots]] )

• If you uploaded a new version of an Image: Why is my new image not shown properly and instead the old one is still shown everywhere?
  • The images are cached with CloudFlare. There's no button on the wiki that allows you to purge them, you can only purge your local cache.
    It will work after some days, but our Wiki Admins can contact GGG to clear it if needed.

Templates and modules

• When testing experimental changes to a template or module, please use the corresponding sandbox

• How do I use Sandboxes and Testspaces
  • Testspaces are not particularly needed, you can also just use your User Space for testing.
  • Sandboxes: Create a "mirror" of the Template you want to edit or test with (Found at the bottom of the template) and create and save the mirrored page.
    (Or just copy and paste the whole current template to the sandbox)
    It can now be used on your test page with {{TemplateName/sandbox}} and you can edit the sandbox page to reflect your changes.

Datamining

• How do we get PoE Data and offical ingame art?
  • https://snosme.github.io/poe-dat-viewer/

• If you want to help datamining on a larger scale, you need PyPoE on your local machine to read and export data.

Data tables

• Where are data tables to datamine content, Ids, Text and whatsoever from Game Files?
  • data (I usually search there for something like "areas" to find worldareas.datc64 or "quest" for questitems.datc64)

Official images and art

• Where are loading screens in poe-dat-viewer?
  • art -> textures -> interface -> loadingimages
• Where are Quest Icons in poe-dat-viewer?
  • art -> 2dart -> questicons -> four
• Where are Quest Item Icons in poe-dat-viewer?
  • art -> 2ditems -> questitems
• Where are Tattoos and the Silver Coin Quest Items?
  • art -> 2DItems -> Currency -> Tattoos
• Where are data tables to datamine content, Ids, Text and whatsoever from Game Files?
  • data (I usually search there for something like "areas" to find worldareas.datc64 or "quest" for questitems.datc64)