Editor Instruction Page

## What this Wiki is About

AQWLore Wiki is a Lore wiki about all in-game characters in the games of Artix Entertainment LCC. The wiki is not officially owned by Artix Entertainment although we do have contacts with them.

The AQWLore Wiki will include:

* Characters
	+ AE Staff Characters
	+ Ex- AE Staff Characters
	+ NPC's from the games
	+ VIP's that appeared in the game, or contributed.
* Guilds
	+ Staff Guilds
	+ Known Player Guilds
* Factions
	+ Factions
	+ Races
	+ Classes
* Alignments
	+ Good
	+ Evil
	+ Chaos
	+ Order
	+ Neutral

These categories will be added using tags and descriptive pages.

## How to Contribute to the AQW Lore wiki

There are already a lot of created pages; so we **strongly recommend** that if you are new to our project you will take care of editing an **existing page.**

**To see which pages have priority, click on this link!**

That page may be of either of above categories whenever it is available. Whenever you open a page you can click "Edit" in the top right corner to add content. **The page creator left a template which you can use.**

### The Biography section

* For **Characters** the biography section should be a summary from the birth of the character till it's current state. This is the background story of the character. *The biography states life facts about the character like birth, place of growing up, parents, jobs taken, places traveled and hometown, marriage or relations, major achievements and so on. If the character is gone/inactive then also where the story ends.*
* For **Guilds** this called "Founding and Purpose" describing the founding and purpose of the guild.
	+ A mandatory subtitle is "Members" with under it a list of members with a referral link to the category tag of the guild (click link, type Category: Name)
* For **Factions** (also races and classes) this is also called "Founding and Purpose" describing the founding and purpose of the Faction.
	+ A mandatory subtitle is "Members" which describes how to be a member, with a referral link to the category tag of the Faction. (click link, type Category: Name)
	+ Another possible subtitle is Ranks and Specialisations; which is about the ranks and specialisations of members within the Faction, class or race.
	+ And lastly possible subtitle is Kinds of [faction name] which describes the various kinds there exist within a race, class or faction if it doesn't have specified ranks.
* For Alignments this is yet undefined.

 *Recommended sources are: The AE Forums*

### The AE Lore section

* For **Characters** the AE lore section is divided into the AQWorlds lore section; which should include the storyline and appearances of the character as NPC in AQWorlds. And if applicable; the storyline and appearances of the character as NPC in other AE games. Add these as different subtitles. *If a character did not appear as NPC nor has references in any game; just write "This character has no in-game lore yet."*
* For Guilds this section is called "Notable events and achievements"; about the achievements of the guild, and notable events. This too is divided in subtitles per game.
* For Factions this is also called "Notable events and achievements" however for Factions this describes the storyline for the faction. This is also divided in subtitles per game.

*Recommended sources are: AQWiki,The AE Forums, AQ3D Wiki, Epic Duel Wiki, HeroSmash Wiki, OverSoul Wiki*

### The Fun facts section.

* About **characters** these should contain **not more than 20** fun facts about the characters or person in their interactions with the AE community that are not explicitly named in the Lore.
* **Guilds** **and Factions** can have these too.

*Recommended sources are: AE Staff Facts, and just the Twitter community.*

### The Real Life story section.

* **If a Character** has a real life person behind it that agrees with sharing some real life details. Or where some real life details are known about these go here. The real life section is about:
	+ History of the person as player of AE games.
	+ History of the person as staff member.
	+ History of the character/person in relation to AE. (if it's an NPC or VIP)
		- **These details may not include: real name, real location other than country or contact info.**
* For Guilds and Factions this section is optional.

*Recommended sources are the persons themselves, Twitter, Facebook and websites.*

### Other sections.

Additionally other sections may be added; like external links to websites or social media that matter but are not in the infobox.

### Example Pages

These pages below can be used as example for how a page will look like if it's **complete.**

* Complete Character Page
* Complete Guild Page *(needs edits)*
* Complete Faction Page

## What to do Next?

Do know we do not ask that you completely fill in a page, you can hop around pages and fill in sections you know things about. (Be aware you do not edit already filled in pages). Some things to double check:

* Spelling and grammar
* Titles and subtitles
* The infobox and links
* Is the story canon with the lore of other characters, guilds or factions.

If you have done a page you could ask someone else to revise it for you or check back on the example pages to see if you did it right.

### Do I get something for contributing?

This wiki is all built by volunteers so we can not offer anything in-game or monetary. However; if someone contributes a lot for a long time and is helping out greatly we will create a page for your character to be part of the lore.

## Current Wiki roles

If you would like to communicate with everyone we recommend joining the Discord channel. We do not necessarily divide roles immediately and the ones listed below are from earlier stages of the project. The way you contribute can lead to various roles.

### Wiki Admin

The Wiki Admins manage the Homepage, edit the templates, add and edit categories, review the work of others and are about permissions and instructions. They create new pages and add the right tags.

Current Admins are:

* Gjappy
* Yoshino

### Content Moderators

Content Moderators is for now a title for people that actively help on the wiki and are in touch with the admins via the Discord chat channel. They can help you revise your page edits, adjust them and add tags if needed.

Current Content Moderators are:

* Lyean Darkblade
* Soki

### Helpers

Helpers have been active on the AQWLore wiki in the past and are in the Discord chat channel. But due to time they are less active online as Content Moderators. Helpers can review your page edits or help finding sources.

Current Helpers are:

## Pages

Before hitting "Add New Page" **always** make sure you are not creating a page that already exists or is unrelated to the main subject of this wiki. This wiki is about **lores of characters, guilds and factions** within the game AQWorlds and it's creator Artix Entertainment. A complete page looks like this; but luckily you do not have to add it all by yourself and can pick a role to add specific parts to the wiki.

1. Once you clicked "Add New Page", give in the title of the new page.
2. The wiki will automatically prompt you to fill in the contents of the page; please determine if the page is about:
	1. A character: Insert -> Infobox -> Character Template 1
	2. A guild: Insert-> Infobox -> Guild Template
	3. A faction: Insert -> Infobox -> Faction Template (*not a guild, but a concept where a lot of characters can belong to eg. The Legion)*
3. Fill in the form that pops up; make sure you add an image for the page you create in there.
	1. Adding external links goes with [>link< space >display name<]
	2. Adding reference to another **page** goes with double [ >referral page]]
	3. Refering to categories isn't possible within the infobox.
4. Once you have submitted the infobox; add the text template to the page
	1. Character Template edit -> copy template text -> paste in your page.
	2. Guild Template edit -> copy template text -> paste in your page.
	3. Faction Template edit -> copy template text -> paste in your page.
5. If you can add information to any of the sections of the template; please do so.
6. Unfollow the page (unless you want notifies about it) click "Save Page" and you have created your page.

### Adding Tags

Once you created your page you can add tags to it to categorize it fast. Below a quick explain on tags:

#### Mandatory tags:

* Character: Add this tag if the page is about a character. *ex. Artix*
* Faction: Add this tag if the page is or belongs to a faction. *ex. The Legion*
* Race: Add this tag if the page is or belongs to a race. *ex. Humans*
* Class: Add this tag if the page is or belongs to a class. *ex. Paladin*
* Alignment: Add this tag if the page describes one of the 5 alignments. *ex. Chaos*
* Evil/Good/Chaos/Order/Neutral: Add either one of these to describe the alignment.

#### Secondary tags:

* AE Game tags: AQ/AQW/AQ3D/DF/ED etc. for describing the game a character is affiliated with
* AE Staff tags: AE Staff/Legendary AE Staff/VIP for describing the role of a real character regarding AE.
* AE Staff roles: Moderator/Tester/Player Support/Web QA/Staff to describe staff roles of a real character within AE. (*Note: these tags do not have to be added to Legendary staff)*
* The NPC and NPCs tags differ that NPCs are non-human and NPC is for real characters with an NPC.
* Other character related tags are:
	+ VIP for characters that are real and were featured by AE somehow.
	+ Youtuber for characters that are known Youtubers in AE's favor.
	+ Ambassador special tag for the ex-Ambassadors.