Editing Guidelines

Hello and welcome to the Fallen London Archives, delicious friend!

We are touched that you would want to share your knowledge with your fellow Londoners! To keep the wiki neat and organized, remember this: There are two basic rules when creating pages:
 * 1) ALWAYS make sure that "All images and directly quoted text are (c) Failbetter Games Ltd. and are used by permission." is stated somewhere in the page. (Alternatively use Template:License) . Incidentally, all templates are fitted with this notice, so you need not put it in yourself.
 * 2) You may not post information on Fate-locked actions.

Templates
Templates are available for easy page creation! Please use templates as much as possible. They usually categorize themselves, provided the whole form is filled out.

To use these templates, simply insert them into the the page by choosing a template, and typing in the kind of page you want to create.

The following templates are available:

Template:Item
Even for items of questionable value! Filling up the "Item Type(Plural)" textbox will automatically categorize your item. Leaving it blank will mark it as "Goods". The following item types are available:
 * Category:Hats
 * Category:Weapons
 * Category:Gloves
 * Category:Clothing
 * Category:Companion
 * Category:Boots
 * Category:Curiousities
 * Category:Goods
 * Category:Exotica

Template:Storylet 1
For storylets everywhere! Be sure to link these to Places.

The numbers represent the number of choices on the storylet. Just use whichever template applies.

Template:Places
Anywhere and everywhere in Fallen London!

Template:Card 1
Pick a card, any card. These cards should be sorted by Category:Card Categories.

...except those nasty red auto-fire cards. They caught us by surprise, so use Template:Autofire for these instead.

The numbers represent the number of choices on the card. Just use whichever template applies.

Template:Stories
For creating categories of multi-chapter stories. Examples include the different Recurring Dreams and an Intimate of Devils.

Template:Venture
Different from stories in that they show up in.. well, Ventures. Example is Venture: uncover hidden tattoos and Seduction: Honey-sipping heiress.

Template:Action
Storylets and Cards may have different options. In the Archives, we prefer these options to be on separate pages.

We realize that some actions may have identical titles. If you encounter any, please append a number at the end, to create a new page every time. Example:

Example: Card -> Action

Template:Failure
It is possible to fail at some actions.

WikiText
If you are familiar with wikitext, you can directly edit the wiki source as well. A quick Cheat Sheet can be found here.

Categories
Help us track our pages! Always make sure that every page is linked to a relevant category. Keep in mind these few questions when adding categories:
 * Does this affect my Connections with other Londoners at all?
 * Is there a Story to this?
 * If it is a Storylet: Where am I?
 * If a card: What kind?

Images
We have quite a number of pictures already uploaded into the wiki -- feel free to use them! We use the same filenames as the ones in EchoBazaar.

To acquire the original filename in EchoBazaar, right-click the image and view it, or copy the image location.

If you want to add an image to the wiki, we only ask that you select "...use is permitted by the copyright holder" when selecting the licensing information.

This page is constantly being updated, check back soon!
If you have any questions at all, you may contact Neonix or any admin.

Happy editing!

[[User:Neonix|Neonix 01:10, January 2, 2011 (UTC) ]]