How To Help

Hello! And thank you for taking interest in helping this community thrive! Here you will find some guide lines to help keep everyone as helpful to each other as possible. When you have many people helping at the same time it is easy for things to get messy and complicated without having some form of guide lines or "rules" you could say. Everyone has their own understanding on what "helping" looks like and that's one of the best parts of a community. BUT! ...I know we don't like the word "but", just take a moment to hear me out.

**Naming Resources:**

Example time! So, if I think that it would be a great idea to name an image Blue Fish.png because to me its just a blue fish image. Correct, I mean look at it. We can all agree on that.

The problem comes in when you start having expansions in the game or new discoveries...Uh oh!

I am sure you can see where the problems start to come in. So then what? How about this?

There needs to be some type of "standard" way of doing all of this. So, let's try something out. In programming there is thing called "CamelCaps" or "camelCase" depends on who you talk too. We have found that this with a couple of other things can help settle the confusion that could happen working together on this wiki.

In general it is best to name thinks as close as possible to how you find it named in the game. This helps others find it in the wiki. They already know what the game calls it so now you don't have to explain it to them! Yay!

Example: Yes, there is a naming issue Bluefish vs BlueFish. Hence this information. :)

1. Name the resource what you would normally see in the game Bluefish = Bluefish, Blue Marlin = Blue Marlin

2. Use CamelCaps when naming a resource = Bluefish, BlueMarlin, BlueTang

3. Try to name things how you would describe them if you saw it far, far away. General name, detailed, more detail example...

If you saw all of these at the same time and were going to try to tell me which one you were talking about you would probably say something like this:

"See those "Shadows" in the water, the "Big one" (large) with the "green" (uncommon) around it"

So, Shadow + Large + Uncommon = ShadowLargeUncommon.png

4. If there is something already in the resource library try to use the same style of naming and work with what people before you have already done. It makes it easier for you or other to edit and find things.

5. When in doubt ask the community on the Discord server

A few more naming examples with images: A list of naming examples for referencing can be found here.

Naming Conventions List:

Check out Naming Conversations for a list of naming conventions used.

**Pages setup:**

We are trying to keep the "depth" of pages to a minimum whenever we can. Have you ever been to a website and you have to click 4-7 links to find what you want? That's what we mean by depth. So, we are trying our best to build this wiki like a book. Index (Home page) -> Chapters (Main topic page) -> SubChapters (Detailed of topic pages). Books are easy to navigate, we would like our wiki to be as well.

Example: Fish Compendium -> General information about all fish (Name, Average coin value, Shadow size, etc) -> Fish specific details (if we want them) things like where to find them, schooling patterns, eye color (that's a joke), etc.

If their information becomes too large for one "book", this type of organization will help us be able to expand to more of a library/series style of organization where it is just books that are part of a "series". The style stays the same; you just add one more level. Library/series (Main Home page) -> "Book 1" Index (Main page) -> Chapters (Main topic page) -> SubChapters (Detailed of topic pages)

Example:

If there is a topic that is not already listed then click the "ADD NEW PAGE" OR If you would like to expand on a topic go to its pages and click the "EDIT" button at the top of any page. Thank you and let’s go!

Thank you for your interest in helping! We look forward to seeing your contributions and in-game discoveries!