Contributor Guidelines/Open Forum

Welcome to the Contributor Guidelines/Open Forum.

As of posting this, the section is just opening up just to set a few guidelines to streamline this particular wiki again. You don't have to follow them and feel free to add/discuss suggestions.

This probably should also be used as a Open Forum to call out which problems the Wiki currently might face and how to improve it (outdated articles, priority lists on what to focus, etc). The game continually updates and at some times updates are just bugfixes while other times whole new towns, dungeons and events are implemented.

Contributor Guidelines:

 * Make sure your explanations are easy to understand. If you can, add pictures help illustrate what you mean.
 * Avoid using first person in your explanations, if possible.
 * Make sure what you are posting hasn't been covered before (if it has changed, edit it accordingly)
 * Try to expalin what you editted/why

What to add on the Priority List:
Try to add bulletpoints of what the Wiki needs at the moment and how to improve it.

Stucture of articles:
If unsure how to implement a new article or a contribution you want to make, the japanese wiki serves as a good reference (even if you don't know Japanese) on how to structure things (you can always run it through Google Translate to get the jist of what goes where).

As of now, the Japanese Wiki follows the following Structure (the case of Cities/Dungeons) is used here):


 * Before Table of Contents it is explained based on what version (or date) the page was last editted


 * After that a brief General Information of the map is given. General things you can do in the map, if there are differences between normal and slave mode, day and night, etc.


 * Different items the shops sell/items & loot you can find in the dungeon (Suggestion: should we copy them straight from the Japanese Wiki and translate them using the existing item charts?)


 * After that, Events you can experience in that map and how to trigger them (walkthroughs in the case of dungeons)

Current Priority List of stuff (based of the current situation 2011/05/09):

 * TOP: Add all new Cities and Dungeons with basic information about them
 * TOP: Update outdated articles
 * MID: Translate items in the items article
 * MID: Add shop informations
 * MID: Create Walkthroughs/Events sections for the major cities/maps (example: Life Sciences Institute has gone through dramatic changes and has a ton of new events like rebirth as Lamia or Robot)
 * LOW: Create basic Walkthroughs for dungeons (this can be expanded on later)