Editor guidelines

Remember: These are just guidelines! ;-)

Templates

Fast ways to type complex things, and/or have one place to format certain things.

See also the complete template list, and Wikimedia's Help:Template.

Small templates

Here are a few templates I've created and recommend everyone use.

Template	Effect
{{homm}}	Heroes of Might and Magic III
{{hommroe}}	Heroes of Might and Magic III: Restoration of Erathia
{{ab}}	Armageddon's Blade
{{inab}}
{{sod}}	Shadow of Death
{{insod}}
{{wog}}	Template:Wog
{{inwog}}	Template:Inwog
{{Comboartifact}}	Template:Comboartifact

Large templates

Creature Statistics

Format: {{creaturestats|Town name|Attack|Defense|Shots|Damage|Health|Speed|Special Abilities|Picture|Basic Growth|Cost per unit}}

{{creaturestats|Rampart|5|3|0|2-3|8|6|None||14|70 [[gold]]}}

produces

Grail structures

{{Grail|Town Type}}
 *Specific effect

produces

• Specific effect

Skills

The Skills template is also used in spell pages to show the effect of having a secondary skill in the relevant school of magic.

{{skills|Damage|100%|110%|125%|150%}}

produces

Spells

{{Spelltable|Earth Magic|6|1 round for each [[Spell Power]]|1st}}

produces

Town's Creature List

The following should be typed all on one line. It's been broken up so as not to widen the page.

{{creaturelist|Centaur|Centaur Captain| \
 Dwarf|Battle Dwarf| \
 Wood Elf|Grand Elf| \
 Pegasus|Silver Pegasus| \
 Dendroid Guard|Dendroid Soldier| \
 Unicorn|War Unicorn| \
 Green Dragon|Gold Dragon}}

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Categories

Use categories to group pages.

Add page in a category

Just add [[Category: name of category]] somewhere in the page.

A page can have multiple categories.
Just add more [[Category: category]] links on the page.

Create a new category

Do exactly like when adding a page to a category. If the category doesn't exist, it will be created.

List of existing categories

Special: Categories - Some of them may be removed later.

Images

You can get a complete list of images at Special:Imagelist.

Upload

You need to be registered and logged in to upload pictures. Once you are, go to Special:Upload. See also the Upload Log.

New images

You'll find a list of newly uploaded images on the Special:Newimages page.

Unused pictures

Special: Unusedimages - See if there's anything you want to write about

What to do?

Most wanted page

Special:Wantedpages shows a list over the pages that have most links to it. This would be a good start.

Recent edits

Look through the Special:Recentchanges page and see if there are some spelling errors, some layout you could fix, some info you could add..

Short pages

Special:Shortpages shows the shortest pages in the wiki.

Surf around

Surf around. See if you find places you know something that's not in the text, look for red links, make a new page if needed.

Don't forget

Make sure there isn't another page like the one you make (a good example would be Knowledge Tree and Tree of Knowledge.)