Some general guidelines for formatting pages and links.
Pages and Page Names[]
- For item names that share a name with the suit, the suit should always get the "primary" name with the item having a word in parentheses to distinguish it from the suit. For example, the suit called Story of Shanghai has a dress with the same name, so the dress's page is at Story of Shanghai (Dress).
- Capitalize the word that comes after the item, for example, "(Dress)" rather than "(dress)"
- On the page itself for the dress, use {{DISPLAYTITLE:Story of Shanghai}} (or whatever the name of the item is).
- If there are two items with the same name and the same item type, use their suit name to tell them apart (and if they have no suit, use their method of obtainment). For example, Soaring Dragon is split into Soaring Dragon (Mrs Frein) and Soaring Dragon (Watery Lord).
- To keep page names both short and consistent, please use the following terms for the disambigs, unless absolutely necessary:
- Handheld instead of Right Handheld or Left Handheld
- Bracelet instead of Hand Ornament (or anything distinguishing right or left)
- Face instead of Face Accessory
- Background should be used for both background items and actual Backgrounds.
- The suit should never have the "secondary" name, so you should never need to denote "(Suit)". The exception to this is Hidden Suits with unofficial names, which will get the addition "(Hidden Suit)" if they share a name with another item. Unofficial names are anything that someone makes up themselves, rather than it appearing in an official released promo image or social media post (official names). Hidden suits with official names will not have "(Hidden Suit)" in the title.
- Events that share a name with a suit should have the page name "Name Event" with no parentheses.
The general order for which pages get page name priority is as follows:
- Nation/Gallery
- Suit
- Officially named hidden suit
- Character
- Other lore
- Wardrobe item
- Unofficially named hidden suit
- Furniture
Concepts on lower tiers should receive a disambiguation while ones on higher tiers will get the main space. All items on the same tier should receive a disambiguation to distinguish from each other. These rules are subject to change depending on the actual content of the pages (eg if one page on a lower tier is anticipated to be much more popular).
Gameplay mechanics and similar pages should receive high priority but be treated on a case by case basis.
- When renaming/moving pages, please use the "Move" option under the blue edit button. Do not copy the source code of the page to a new page and then delete/create a redirect from the old one. Using the move feature preserves the edit history of the page.
- Redirects should generally be kept for any high-traffic pages, especially suits, events, characters, and commonly-visited wardrobe items. Uncommon wardrobe items can have their redirects removed, and all files should have redirects removed unless it's a special case. Remember that even if there are no links on the site, people outside of the Wiki link to our pages so it is beneficial in the long-run to keep redirects for popular pages intact.
Links[]
- When formatting links, use internal links instead of external links. If you find yourself having to copy the entire url to link to a page on the wiki, you are probably making external links.
- Format links like [[Page name|Text you want to appear (optional)]]
- Feel free to link to redirects. Apple redirects to Apple Federal, so you don't have to write [[Apple Federal|Apple]], ever. If a redirect doesn't exist that you think should, feel free to create it.
- If linking to wikipedia, community central, or another wiki, use interwiki links.
- Format other wiki links as [[w:c:Name from URL (such as lovenikki):Name of page to link to|Text you want to appear]]
- Format links to wikipedia as [[wikipedia:Name of page to link to|Text you want to appear]]
- For ease of reading articles, don't put two links right next to each other like this. It makes the article hard to read. Try and see if you can rearrange the words so that the two links don't touch. On normal suit or item pages, two links will never have to touch.
- How many times can you link to the same page?
- On item and suit pages, you can link to items, suits, methods of obtainment, etc as many times as they appear on the page.
- On lore pages, try and only link to the first time the person, event, etc or other lore-related link appears on the page with the exception of linking to characters again in headers at the beginning of their relationship summary.
Dialogue[]
- Dialogue should be written out with bullet points. (In source code, this is represented by an asterisk.)
- The name of the character speaking (as written in the dialogue) should be bolded before the dialogue in the text bubble. If there is no character, you can simply leave it out.
- Any styling theme (red text in-game) should be italicized.
- Dialogue that represents a flashback in-game, particularly in the middle of a non-flashback and when indicated by a yellow tint in-game, should have the "flashback" class by writing:
- *<span class="flashback">'''Character:''' Dialogue here</span>
- Examples can be found on any of our event maps.
Images[]
- Generally, the most high quality version of an image is preferred. The exception is suit promo images which should use the English version even when the Chinese version is higher quality.
- Give images descriptive file names, especially for suit images, which should always have the file name be the name of the suit. If you need to change the name of a file, please contact a content moderator or admin.
- For more information about specific types of images, please see the following linked pages for details about item images, suit promo images, and event promo images.
- Don't upload images from other fansites like Nikki's Info or Love Nikki World.
- Image captions should begin with a capital letter.
For some free, safe image editors that will not reduce the quality of your images, you can try the following:
General[]
- For item names with "·" (dot) included, use a "-" (dash) instead. This is for ease of linking and navigating since most keyboards do not have "·" (dot). The exception to this rule is when referencing Achievements.
- If there is a grave typo or the sorts from the game, add {{sic}} — which looks like [sic] — to denote the error. A reference using <ref> tags can also be added if an explanation is needed. For more information, see the wikipedia article on the origin and proper usage of [sic].
Languages[]
- Certain pages in the Wiki are also available in other languages. Those languages are Russian, Spanish, French, and Chinese. If you know of a page that has a version in one of these languages, feel free to add an interlanguage link to the very bottom of the page (so we can find it later).
- If you know of or create a wiki in another language, please let an administrator or moderator know so that we can help link the wikis and pages together!
(More may be added later)