Griftlands Wiki talk:Community portal

Organizing the Wiki for the Future
So I've recently come into the position of admin. Just to let you guys know, this was done more due to there being shoes that needed to be filled rather than me fitting those shoes in any capacity. I didn't know the first thing about editing a wiki, but I am learning and I'll try to do the best I can. Please feel free to give me a shout if there's anything you'd like to talk about.

The first thing I'd really like to do is reorganize our categories and set up a good skeleton for where our pages will go. I'll try to cover everything I can and nest things in an efficient yet intuitive way. For instance, the All Cards category (renamed to Cards) will include Sal, Rook and Smith categories and Item, Battle and Negotiation categories. Those in turn will include Attack, Maneuver, Diplomacy, Parasite etc. These will obviously not be mutually-exclusive. Just use the appropriate categories when making/looking for card pages.

Also, I'm looking to revamp the card infobox system; it's lacking some key features (flavor text, character owner) and isn't exactly pretty, so I figured I'll try to overhaul it into something we'll be happy with in the long term. If anyone is decent at infobox formatting PLEASE let me know. I'm kinda flying by the seat of my pants here haha. --Yudrig (talk) 00:28, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

Updating Templates
Hey guys, I'm new to wiki editing, but I recently became a huge fan of Griftlands and was saddened yet motivated by this lacking wiki. I plan adding pages, especially regarding Rook, and doing some clean-ups and clarification here and there. There's a lot of stuff I don't understand about editing a wiki, and although I can google a lot of my questions, it can be tough to find the solution I'm looking for. For right now, I'd like to update the current card template to include flavor text, which character it belongs to, if it's a starting card, if it belongs in an unlock set, as well as changing the format of the card name (it's so small and why are there quotes around it? Also why yellow?) However, I don't have permission to edit the template itself. I'll do it in a way so it doesn't mess up the old pages, or someone else can update it. Please let me know if you can help me with this, thanks! Yudrig (talk) 16:31, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

New Subject
Hi peeps. First time actually editing or making any changes to a wiki article. The infobox template doesn't want to cooperate. Anyone able to tell why the '[[file:' text is visible on Sal and Rook's pages? [[User:Tempvirage|Tempvirage]] (talk) 21:05, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Hello, thanks for catching that one. Well, it seems something was broken and returned some weirdness when an image was added. I think that is gone now. Images should be able to be added without using [[file:]] and only adding  or   should suffice. Encredechine (talk) 00:51, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Page/Information Requests
I played around with some more stuff today and expanded on the How To and added some basic info to some of the character pages. Is there anything in particular anyone wants me to really focus on? I'm mostly good for writing since I'm 100% new to actual wiki editing. Learning as I go, that sort of thing. Doesn't look like anyone else has really done any edits in a while? Figured I'd try and knock some things out since a release is actually on the calendar now. Otherwise I'll keep picking at random things here and there until I get bored. S= Tempvirage (talk) 01:29, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Adding to yesterday, if anyone wants to collaborate on a project let me know. There's a ton of in-game assets I need to acquire and if anyone knows how to data-mine the game files for text that would be super helpful. Right now I'm literally just screen capturing tons of things and making notes as I screw around with the game to add as articles later. Tempvirage (talk) 21:20, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
 * As of right now, I'm mostly going to start working on Rook cards and cataloguing, editing, and typing up descriptions for each. Probably going to take several days. If anyone else wants to work on Grafts or Items, etc. that would be cool. Otherwise, I'll get to them eventually. Tempvirage (talk) 17:29, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Just updating the page in case anyone checks it: Currently still editing card images and doing prep work to build 200+ pages. Got a little derailed with having to learn some HTML5 stuff but got a good chunk of Rook's cards done. Card infobox template is done, working on cropping the last 120+ card images before I create the pages in AWB. Leaving a to-do list below in its own section for personal tracking. Tempvirage (talk) 06:30, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

To-Do List
Just leaving a short to-do list here for anyone to see what's being worked on vs. what needs to be done. If there's anything you'd like to work on that's not listed below with an ETA, go for it.
 * Create card pages with AWB. - Planned - ETA 09 14MAY2020 - Delayed by a few days. Had some family stuff pop up that kept me from working on much the past 4 days.
 * Create character pages for all Merchants - (created page stubs so far, that's pretty much it)
 * Clean up page categories and stubs
 * Clean up missing pages and broken links
 * Create hints/tips section in How-To - Low priority since game is in Alpha and things are sure to change
 * Update front page featured images with Alpha screenshots - Candidate pics created; just gotta edit and upload.
 * Fill in missing game information on various pages such as adding prices to merchants' pages, etc.
 * Finish adding missing icons and info on Battle page - Mostly missing ability icons
 * Give Negotiations page a makeover similar to Battle - Need to capture and edit icons (missing 95% of them atm)


 * Tempvirage (talk) 06:30, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

Style Guide
Since there isn't anything covering this stuff currently, use these (rough) guidelines to keep things in a similar style if you plan on making major edits. Tempvirage (talk) 10:53, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Character portraits for character page infoboxes should be cropped and reduced to 250x250px before uploading and named as '(character name) (mugshot, portrait, etc.)'
 * Ideally, crop images to remove unnecessary UI elements and to retain focus on the subject. i.e. Don't upload a full screen image if your subject is 1 specific enemy.
 * Keep text organized to the respective section, especially on character pages. i.e. Don't put combat/fight details in the character background section.
 * If you're interested in writing or creating pages but you don't feel you have enough info, check out Klei's official Griftlands forums
 * Try not to use too much of 1 format option and don't be afraid to break up a page with sub-headers if there aren't any. i.e. Don't use nothing but bullets.