Editor guidelines
Remember: These are just guidelines! ;-)
Templates
Templates gives you a fast way to create complex tables, infoboxes or texts while keeping the format the same. You can see the heroes wiki's complete template list from here, and some help to create templates from here.
Small templates
Here are a few templates I've created and recommend everyone use.
| Template | Effect |
|---|---|
| {{homm}} | Heroes of Might and Magic III |
| {{roe}} | Restoration of Erathia |
| {{hommroe}} | Heroes of Might and Magic III: Restoration of Erathia |
| {{ab}} | Armageddon's Blade |
| {{inab}} | |
| {{sod}} | Shadow of Death |
| {{insod}} | |
| {{hc}} | Heroes Chronicles |
| {{inhc}} | |
| {{inabhc}} | Template:Inabhc |
| {{insodhc}} | Template:Insodhc |
| {{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|C_nopic.PNG|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}}
produces
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.)