Dungeon Defenders Wiki:Code of Conduct

Weclome to the Dungeon Defenders Wikia! The online encyclopedia on everything about Dungeon Defenders! We encourage every one to edit and chip in on this vast Wikia. And we hope that many will do so, but there are a few rules and guidelines we wish you to follow.

Content Management

By adding content to the Wikia you are allowing room for the Wikia community to grow! Adding content is the key focal point to all Wikias, but managing content is also a key part.

Rules

• Never post any information that is false or that you are not sure about.

• When adding images please check to see if one already exists.

• Be respectful when adding textual content to all types of people.

• Do not recreate a page. To have a page remade simply use the talk page and make a request.

• The Wikia should be at a level of Dungeon Defenders ESRB rating.

• Simple and clean articles typically look better. Do not add extra content to just fill in the page.

• Please refrain from adding or tempering with templates. Important Templates will be locked by Admin.

• If you are unsure then do not go through with it. That's the best rule.

• Do not create pages about un-canonical information that's irrelevant or not officially announced.

Tips

• Try sticking to only a couple pages and adding information as you learn it. This will help you get familiar with the coding and how things work.

• Almost every article needs improvement somehow. Sometimes hitting random article isn't a bad way to find something to work on.

• Infoboxes are and will be your best friend! They create a nice way of displaying information about something.

• Refrain from using tables as they look bulky and out of place (unless you know your coding).

• The more you edit the better you will be.

Popular Template Tags

These are some common tags you will use for templates. Remember that all templates are searchable under the template window. This window can be found on top of the rich text editor.

	Stub	Tag
	This will mark an article as a stub. Stub articles are usually empty important pages or ones with very little information. Mark pages like this if you do not know much about the topic or don't have enough time to edit.	{{stub}}
	Future Game	Tag
	This will mark an article as an unreleased game. This will let users know that information about the game could change very often. Note that only sourced information should be posted in these articles and nothing speculated.	{{future game}}
	Possible Content	Tag
	These are for articles about content that has been hinted at. They haven't been officially announced, but there is strong evidence for them. Note that only sourced information should be posted in these articles and nothing speculated.	{{possible content}}
	Infobox Pet	Tag
	This is an Infobox used on Pets. Please use this on all pet pages. This includes Animus.	{{infobox pet}}
	Infobox Weapons	Tag
	This is an Infobox used for Weapons. Please use this on all weapon pages.	{{weapons}}

Media

A game like Dungeon Defenders will result in a lot of Media on the Wikia. Try to always look for an image already uploaded before uploading a new one.

Quality

Quality media is important. Only use low quality images if there is no other media available. The preference is the use of higher quality images and video. Note that taking media from other websites is considered stealing if they are copyrighted. They will be deleted. Also copy and pasting text from other websites can be considered plagirism and illegal. This could lead to banishment.

Naming

The naming of media being uploaded to the Wiki should be addressed. Names should be unique, specific, and make sense in order to keep things easy for every one.

Here are some good and bad examples:

File Name:	G or B
"12309384"	Bad
"Monk Weapon"	Bad
"TheWitchofTheWest"	Good
"Apprentice-icon"	Good

The good names let us know exactly what the image is and also makes finding the image easy. If a user was working on a page about Swords and they wanted to add a picture that's been updated, then they should be able to find it by searching for the weapon's name.

There should never be a case where there is an image already in the database with the same name. If such a case does happen please check the other image. If the other image is the same or slightly different decide if the other images needs to be replaced or not. If they are different and you feel your image needs to be uploaded please try finding another unique name.

Where to begin?

Here are a list of things you could work on. As a growing Wikia there is a lot of content that needs to be added and or cleaned up.

• Dead-End Pages (Pages with no links in content)
• If you want to help but you're not sure where to start, try improving the various stub articles by adding content.
• Another helpful activity would be to check the list of wanted pages for frequently linked-to articles that don't exist yet.
• To follow the changes to this wiki, and to look out for new users and edits use recent changes.
• You can find a list of useful templates on Category:Templates, some of which are documented on Dungeon Defenders Wiki:Templates.
• If you need help editing, you could start with Help:Editing or the tutorial.
• Here you can find a list of unused images on the Wiki. Find them homes!

CSS Tutorial

Welcome to the mini CSS Tutorial on the Dungeon Defenders Wiki. Here you can learn how to do basic CSS formatting. We will begin with some simple font tags. This little tutorial will start with formatting text. This tutorial is not meant to be a full length CSS course and will only cover the basics. At the end of the tutorial you will find some links with good tutorials to further your study. Being a master of CSS will greatly help you in many places not just here. Have fun!

Color Names Used on Wiki

Here are the names of common used colors on the Wiki!

Green	Mostly Used on Maps Pages for Creatures	#008FE6	Medium
DarkGoldenRod	Mostly Used on Maps Pages for Headers	#FF6600	Hard
DarkRed	Mostly Used on Maps Pages for Creatures	Red	Very Hard
#99000	Mostly Used on Menus on The Wiki
DeepSkyBlue	Very Easy
#00AB00	Easy

Formatting Text

There are some ways that CSS is going to be more powerful than the Rich Text Editor. The editor allows you to bold, italicize, underline, streak through, and change alignment. The editor does not allow you to change color nor change the font size.

When formatting text you have to follow a couple rules. These rules may not apply to coding text inside tables so please read the tables section for more information about that.

All text that you want formatted must be surrounded by the paragraph tag.

Input:	<p> Dungeon Defenders</p>
Output:	Dungeon Defenders

You may have noticed a paragraph at the end with a / before the p. That is very important. That tells the Wiki when to stop processing the code. You must have that with every tag you use. Think of it like a mirror or brother and sister.

Now when you want to change what the text looks like it is called a style. Style is a special word found in the paragraph tag that tells the Wiki that the text is going to be altered.

Input:	<p style="text-align: center"> Dungeon Defenders</p>
Output:	Dungeon Defenders

Notice how after the word style there is a = sign. This tells the Wiki that the style of the text will equal what ever is inside the quotes. Note that all formatting code must be within these quotes or else the formatting will not work. The quotes let the Wiki know exactly how to format the text. So remeber quotes are our friends.

Type	Regular Text	Coded Text	Description	CSS Tags
Font Color	Dungeon Defenders	Dungeon Defenders	We added the color tag to change the color of the text.	color: skyblue
Font Size	Dungeon Defenders	Dungeon Defenders	We added the font-size tag to increase the size of the text.	font-size:large

You're probably curious on how to use these two tags. The tables below will illustrate that for you.

Input:	<p style="text-align:center;color:skyblue">Dungeon Defenders</p>
Output:	Dungeon Defenders