The wiki wants you. (fomelo2wiki project)

Rari

Rari

Game Master
Ok, going to say a lot of stuff, but moving the extra bits below. Here is what I am asking people to do.

  • Sign up for a wiki account if you don't already have one. (If you do and still can't edit, details on that below.)
  • Open the fomelo2wiki guide (also linked below.) Read the top part with the picture and the common bugs at least.
  • Open fomelo2wiki (this is a link) and put your character's name in.
  • Follow the steps listed in the guide to add your items that are either not listed, or are listed in old format. (listing source info is explained in the guide)
  • Edit: It's advisable to also fomelo the character and use it as reference - flowing thought is not recognized by the current version of fomelo2wiki and MUST be added by hand, along with a few other little bugs listed in the guide.

Most people who edit our wiki are familiar with fomelo2wiki. It's a handy, web-based application that can transfer equipment information from fomelo into wiki code. This makes the process of adding items to our wiki a lot faster than doing it by hand! However, in the last six (ish) months, we've been working on using this tool to not only add new items, but also reformat old ones (the old format I wrote wasn't nearly as flexible as the new one, and this one lets us do lots of really cool stuff with item information.) Since this project started, we've reformatted or added 2795+ items in this new format. However, we are still missing a lot of items, and there are 5199 items atm that are still 'old' format. Now, fomelo2wiki can't reformat all of these, it only handles fomelo items but equipment matters a great deal and it's the easiest to add!

I've written this short guide to using fomelo2wiki to add equipment items. (this is a link) If you find this guide lacking in anything, please let me know, and I'll gladly expand it.

Add your character's equip. Add your alts equip. Add your buddy who you know doesn't play anymore. Everything helps. If you have any questions, need help, etc... You can ask here, or on my talk page on the wiki. Also, the wiki sysops generally check new additions within 24-48 hours, and I usually catch most errors when I patrol, so don't worry about breaking anything.

I'm asking people to try this as both a way to get more people involved in contributing to the wiki, and to expand our community knowledge source. If you've tried to sign up on the wiki in the past, but you never received a verification email (or did and never clicked the link) and you can't edit with your account, check this out:

  • Log in
  • Click 'my preferences' (top right)
  • Find and verify your email address is correctly spelled
  • There should be a button to resend the verification email there
  • If you still do not get one, first, check your spam folder!
  • Failing that, try a different email address. You may need to wait a while (a week tops?) after requesting an email to do it again, idr.

Well, back to editing the wiki for me! :dance:
 
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This is awesome, any way to add in the future the ability to click on an item in Formelo to have it open up a link to the wiki entry?
 
I actually don't know about linking directly from fomelo, I'll ask our web dev. Might be difficult, since some items have the same name.
 
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Bonk84 said:
This is awesome, any way to add in the future the ability to click on an item in Formelo to have it open up a link to the wiki entry?
Click to expand...

I added it to Fomelo. Gotta right-click it and open in new window or tab. For some reason, at least in firefox, merely clicking on it won't work.
 
since this went down, almost no new items are added to wiki... almost nothing from newer encounters is there (tur'ruj, nylastra, 4.3, rokh, etc)
personally, i would like to add a ton of things but i don't really know how to format it correctly manually and it seems daunting. is fomelo2wiki hosted somewhere else?
 
i miss fomelo2wiki too. and with the complexity of the items from those zones, it is an extra-big pain in the ass to try and add them by hand.

i have asked meyers to share the code with me last week. he seemed amenable to letting me rehost it and work on bringing it up to date. it had been out of date even before the site went down - he no longer had time to maintain it. but for now we're all waiting until he has time to find it and upload it.
 
For the vast majority of situations, it's against policy to put knowledge gained via staff means on the wiki.

Myself, I've made 2 exceptions and put things on the wiki using staff powers.

(1) Charm Credit
(2) Fixing a couple brewing recipe listings that were incorrect, leaving players to believe they were broken (this was after actually fixing a couple other recipes and leaving the recipe listings on the wiki alone)

In general, do the research yourself! All those numbers on the Alternate Advancement and Tomes pages were painstakingly calculated from raw data from chat logs. You can do it!
 
While we wait for fomelo2wiki, people might want to keep in mind there are other things they can help add information. For instance, at the House (every character can get a key at level 20 to their own house) you can talk to the majordomo to place a trophy - the trophy will show average level and class for an NPC, which is data we are usually MISSING on the wiki. trophies can be blown up and placed again and again - i've done this for a lot of NPCs myself. of course, this only works for things you've actually killed, so the more experience in game your toon has, the more NPCs you'll have access to.

And that's just -one- way to add information. We always need more quest information, NPC locations... try checking the stubs category on the wiki lately, there is lots of stuff in there! If you need help adding something or have other wiki-questions, feel free to ask me.
 
Ok so I'm not too familiar with wikis, I'm still learning. But I'm trying to update some items to use the new item template but i'm having problems trying to figure out what all the possible properties i can use are. Is there some way I can see a full list of what's available?

Also, this one has me a little confused:
http://wiki.shardsofdalaya.com/index.php/Vulfwere_Elder_Symbol
http://wiki.shardsofdalaya.com/index.php/Blood_Spattered_Mantle

I added the flagboe = 1 to Vulfwere Elder Symbol and [Bind on Equip] shows up on the page, but [Pristine] does not. [Pristine] does show on the Blood Spattered Mantle page, but I don't see what makes it show up.
 
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You should find what you want on the Formatting page in the community portal. You'll find a link to the itemstats template there, and the documentation on the page includes a lot of examples. Additionally, though 'page format for items' is written as a guide for use inline with fomelo2wiki, everything below the first section still applies.

Edit: Parts of http://wiki.shardsofdalaya.com/index.php/User:Rari/fomelo2wiki may also be helpful, but it was linked half a dozen times in this thread already so I figured you saw it. I quit working on finishing it since the fomelo2wiki went down.

I patrol ALL edits on the wiki, so you can see 'fixes' from the diffs if you wait a few minutes. Basically, what was wrong with Vulfwere Elder Symbol is that you had both flagnodrop and flagboe turned on, but they are mutually exclusive, so that kept pristine from being picked up. [No Drop] should not have been on that item so I removed it.
 
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