Editing Guide

This editing guide explains the basics for anyone who is new to wiki editing with Fandom or the Farland Wiki. For the official Fandom crash course with the visual editor, you can check out the How to Contribute and Guides pages, or check out the Help articles.

## Policies

Before you begin editing, make sure you browse over the Fandom Policies and guidelines for contributing. Anything you contribute should be your own. Since this wiki is based on a free-to-play game, any data gathered by you while playing the game is fine to contribute. If you gather information by using an outside site, please be sure to obtain permission from the site owner and reference their work with your contribution (provide a link).

## Getting Started

To edit a page, click the *edit* or *edit this page* button at the top of the page. To edit an individual section on a page, click the floating [Edit] link next to the section name.

After you've typed in your changes, click on the *Preview* button on the top right of the editing screen. Make sure any links you've added show up correctly, everything is spelled correctly and the spacing on pages is normal. If it looks fine, click *Publish* to finish your edit.

## Wiki Markup

Wiki Markup is used while editing in Source mode.

For more information on how to edit tables in the advanced editor, please see this link on the main Media Wiki Help site.

## Naming conventions

Whenever possible, use the exact name that the game provides. Specifically, use the hovertext for building names, and the storage for item names. If there is a conflict in page names, such as a quest and a building having the same name, the page of that name should go to the building (or item), and the quest should be called [name] (quest). For example, Archaeologists' camp and Archaeologists' camp (quest).

## Types of pages

The main types of pages are Category:Buildings, Category:Items, and Category:Quests.

* Category:Buildings are permanent objects on the homestead. They typically produce items or house residents. All use the Buildings template.
	+ Category:Housing are buildings that house residents, like the Hovel.
* Category:Items are things that can go into storage. There are several sub-categories, based on where they appear in the storage. All use the Items template.
	+ Category:Food, like Apple juice
	+ Category:Materials, like Plank
	+ Category:Ingredients, like Apple
	+ Category:Boosters, like Large energy drink
	+ Category:Decorations, like Sand path
	+ Category:Equipment, like Fishnet
* Category:Quests are all those tasks that appear on the left side of the screen

Things that are unique to an Adventures should use the categories with "Adventure" in front of them, like Category:Adventure Buildings *instead of* the regular categories.

## Categories

Categories on pages are really important to a wiki's organization. They create a list of all the items of a similar type in one area of the wiki. For instance, on this wiki we've added all the items the Farland calls 'Trees'. Each page has the Tree category listed on it. So, if I want to browse different tree items listed on the wiki, I can just go to the Category:Tree page and see what is there.

This is helpful if you're looking for an item and cant remember the name of it for searching, or want a quick overview of everything in a category.

Things to look for when adding categories:

* Date Item/Quest/etc was added - you should add "Update Month Day, Year" category to new pages
* Location in the Game/Household Tabs - These items should get "Household" and subcategories in the Household section listed as page categories
* Quests & Characters - these pages need either "Quests" or "Characters" added to their categories
* Quest Items - these are one time items that are given to your character during a quest and used to complete another quest. They will not be used for any other purpose or be able to gathered from anything but that one quest.
* Quest Rewards - These are items that are given to you for completing a quest as a reward and can be used immediately (you wont need them to complete a future quest). These tend to be special items that can only be obtained by completing that quest and can not be collected outside of the quest.

## Pictures

The pictures we add are all screen shots, usually of item pages in the game. To take a screen shot, hold down the CTRL and Print Screen buttons on your keyboard. Print Screen (Prt Scrn) is usually above the insert/home keys on your keyboard. That will copy a picture of what your screen looks like, so then go into your favorite photo program (MS Paint, Photoshop, etc) and Paste the image (CTRL and V at the same time, or select 'paste' from the menu options). You can resize it and crop it however you want.

Most of the images we use are between 150 and 250 pixels, so you may want to resize your images so they show up normally before you upload them.

To add any picture to the wiki, click on the Photo button in the edit page screen. It will show an upload screen and allow you to choose several different options about sizing and if you want to include a caption.

If you're adding a picture to a box on a page the formatting will be done for you (because we've already coded it to), but if you're adding one on a brand new page it may take a few tries to get it the way you want. Just use the 'Preview' button to make sure it looks how you want before you publish it.