Ring of Brodgar:Article Standards

Please note, this is only a rough draft. Any issues or suggestions should be held in the Discussion page. Foetuses 23:52, 9 June 2012 (EDT)

Contents 1 Article Standards 2 Image Standards 3 Things to Avoid

Article Standards

• All game items should have their own articles, including ore nuggets and uncooked foods (such as doughs).
• Articles are to be named exactly as the items are in-game, down to capitalization. This counts for linking in articles too (e.g. when mentioning Beetroot Leaves in an article, it stays capitalized).
• All articles, if applicable, should have a template (items, objects, terrain types, skills, etc.)
• Articles should generally follow XHTML guidelines:

• All linebreak (<br />) tags should be self-closing.
• Outside of the use of greater-than (>) and less-than (<) symbols for tags, such characters should be escaped using "&gt;" (greater than) and "&lt;" (less than) in the place of the usual > and <.
• All tags (such as <nowiki>) should be lowercase.

• General Ring of Brodgar editing standards:

• Key combinations for crafting recipes and other shortcuts should be marked with the Key template. {{K|[letter]}} seems to be the best format for use in editing, but could be up for debate. Example: Craft > Shortcut > Example would be, in wiki format, {{K|C}}raft &gt; {{K|S}}hortcut &gt; E{{K|x}}ample
• Categories for each page should be placed at the bottom of the article source.
• There should be a single newline between the end of a section. Do not put a newline between the section header and the content of the section. Do not leave a newline at the bottom of an article.

Image Standards

• All game items should have their own associated images, taken from their inventory view (not from crafting menus or dropped items).
• Every item image should be named as they are in-game, just as articles (i.e. File:Dead_Cock.png, File:Blueberry_Pie_Dough.png).
• All images should be in PNG[1] format, with dimensions matching up to those in the game resource file. That is, most 1x1 items are 30x30 pixels. Some items take up 2x1 or 1x2 (60x30 and 30x60 pixels respectively) while others have irregular dimensions (such as buckets). Generally, inventory images should be used.
• All inventory items should have transparent backgrounds and ideally be optimised for the smallest file size possible (PNGGauntlet[2] is a useful tool for doing such).
• In-game views of buildings such as Log Cabins and Ovens should be used.
• Images that are missing or not up to image standards are organised and maintained at Images to Fix.

Things to Avoid

• Non-English content should remain off the wiki. This is an English wiki; everything else clutters up the articles.
• Information and articles about players, player groups and villages should remain off the wiki unless significantly relevant. (Examples; jorb and loftar, Constantinople)