¶ Posting Guide
In order to maintain a standard of quality and organization in regards to lore pages on this wiki, all posts must follow a set of simple rules and guidelines to ensure consistency across the wiki from many different authors. Please note that different root pages (i.e. Technology, Nexpedia) may have their own styling guidelines which should be followed.
¶ Folder Structure and the Basics
At the top right corner of the screen on most pages, there is a button that allows you to create a page.
Then, it will ask you to select a destination for the page. Pages in this wiki are organized in a hierarchical structure. For example, the lore for durasteel is located in /technology/materials/stellar_metals/durasteel. Its root folder is technology, and because it is a material, it is in the materials folder, and then finally stellar metals where all of the stellar metal pages such as rubium are found. Your pages should follow this structure. To find the tree for a given directory, you can use a button to change the navigation type to folders.
When you specify a directory, it will specify any f
¶ Guidelines
- When formatting your page, please use headers like those employed in this page (not required if the page is a short snippet).
- It is important to reference other things using links to different wiki pages; for example, the page for faux hardlight references the page for vibroblades, and links to it. Feel free to create different pages for varying things. It's okay to link to a page that doesn't exist yet, if you intend on creating it later.
- More detail on how folders work can be found here.
- When embedding art that you do not own in your page, please give appropriate credit, whether it be in the caption or another place in the page.
- ALL DIRECTORIES (i.e. ooc/posting or technology/materials/stellar_metals/durasteel) should be LOWERCASE, and words should be separated with underscores.
¶ Roles
There are a variety of roles that define permissions. Most players will have the Player role, which means they will only be able to create and edit pages in IC sections of the wiki. Trusted players that write lore for other sections of the wiki can be given the Trusted role which allows them access to editing and creating pages in the non-roleplay directories such as Technology. And finally, the Staff role is held be staff members. Staff can also view changes made to a page and its history, and can revert changes made to a page.
To get the Trusted role, DM a staff member.
¶ Tagging
When creating (and editing a page), you will be able to add tags by typing into the dialog and pressing enter for each tag. Tags are important, as they help other people search for the specific page, and helps categorize it. You must tag your posts with the following tag if they apply, though feel free to add any additional tags. All tags should be lowercase.
| Tag | Description |
| technology | The page relates to technology. |
| species | The page relates to a species. |
| astrography | The page relates to astrography. |
| system | The page is for a star system. |
| faction | The page is for a guild or faction. |
| anomaly | The page is related to anomaly. |
| staff | This tag makes it so that the page is only viewable to staff members. |
| wip | This page is a work in progress, and has not been completed yet. |
| ooc | This page relates to non-lore, meta information. |
| guide | This page is a guide. |
| ic | This page is in-character. |
¶ Templates
Templates can be used to build a specified framework for something like a biography page, without having to format it yourself. Templates are most typically used in Nexicon articles.
There are also HTML snippets that can be used to give warnings on pages, such as metagame warnings that warn that the knowledge on the page might not be common knowledge. Feel free to use them, but note they only work with the HTML editor.
¶ Per-Page CSS
If you want to jazz your page up and know CSS, you can use it in the page options tab called ‘Styles’. Make sure to select styles from .contents to affect the contents of the page. For example:
.contents p{
color: cyan;
}