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Project Zomboid's Wiki (PZWiki for short) requires continous updates as the game develops. To make any general suggestions please use the discussion page.

Indie Stone's current aim is to currently update the game with newer features and improve on existing ones. As a matter of course, as the updates continue, the previously written wiki pages become obsolete and require bringing up to date to current information.

PZWiki would appreciate player assistance in keeping pages up to date to help newer players understand the game and to keep visiting older players up to date with current game design progress.

To that end, PZWiki would appreciate help in any way provided. (as long as it follows the basic Wiki rules)

Things anyone can do

Assisting the Wiki can be done in many forms:

Create Pages for Missing Content

As the game continues to expand, new features and items will enter into the game which the Wiki will not have catalogued, such as the planned (at time of writing) vehicles being introduced into the game.

Please check if the page already pre-exists before creating a new page, for sake of preventing duplication.

Alternatively, check our missing pages category, which lists pages that are currently noted as missing. However please note you will need to go a fair bit down the list as all languages are collected in this category, so it lists french, russian, japanese (etc) missing pages together. Please note the /# symbol after a page name relates to the Language, so if you see Lettuce/fr, it means the lettuce article in French.

(Don't know how to edit a page? Don't worry, Spiffo has you covered. Check out the Boilerplates category for current designs of pages in which you need to just fill in the blanks. As for how to edit, we recommend our page on editing here.)

(Want to know what images are unused for your page? Don't worry, Spiffo has also got you covered on this. Check out the unused images page for unused images. Please note there is the potential for duplicated images so please check the article doesnt exist elsewhere.)

Editing Existing and/or Stub Pages

On occasion the Indie Stone, the Wiki Managers, or editors will set up Stub pages to be improved on later by other Wiki editors. These simply need filling out/formatting with the most recent information.

Stub articles

Stub Articles are all categorised by Stub notices, and stub articles can be found here for improvement. Some stub articles may not use current boilerplates and should be updated accordingly if required.

Articles in need of Improvement

Some editors who read the wiki find pages that are clearly out of date and require a modernisation to bring them back into a relevant state by adding a notice to the page. These pages can be found under the following category page.

Version Pages

Due to how the Boilerplates work and current Wiki policy, all pages are required to have Version Ńumbers attached to the page. This helps discern which version the page was edited and brought up to. The version category collects all pages edited in that version. See the Version Categories page for the list of pages potentially needing updating. Once the page is brought up to date, the Version No. must be updated to reflect it has been corrected.

Translation

Translating the English pages (which at this time is currently the most numerous of the Wiki pages into their relevant language is a enormous task which simply requires a bit of time from Wiki editors. Please try to only translate pages which are close to the current working version, as translating a page from several versions ago could potentially be a redundant exercise unless you can confirm the information is current and assign the page to the current version category.

The use of the {{language}} tag on pages allows for a page to be put in a different language by linking to the assigned variant. Help with translating pages is very much appreciated.

Moving Pages

Try not to move pages unless necessary, one such change would be to remove unnecessary capital letters to lower case. A lot of links on various pages have been spelt with capital letters when they are in the middle of a sentence. These need to be changed to lower case where appropriate. Such as "Concrete Bucket" to "Concrete bucket".

On the basis of pages on items/events/future planned features which are not part of the game yet such as a feature not implemented, these don't need to be moved but need to be categorised in the "Not yet in game" category.

Reporting Spam

When reporting spam the first thing you should do is check to make sure that the article in question is not focused on Project Zomboid. Check the page's title, look to see that there is not an extensive history for the page. If you are not sure that the article is not legitimate leave a note on the article's discussion page.

If you are absolutely positive that the article is spam and does not belong on the wiki insert the following into the article, before any content:

 {{Deletion|Spam|speedy=1}}

Preview to make sure a red box has appeared on the page, then save your changes. An admin will delete the article after review. To report someone you believe is a spambot simply leave a message on an admin's talk page.

Adding Pages To Categories

When creating a new page or coming across a page that hasn't been added to an appropriate category, edit using this format:

 [[Category:NAME]]

You can find a listing of category names on this page.

Adding Notice Boxes To Pages

Notice boxes are the boxes added to the top of pages to indicate problems or concerns with the article. One example is the in need of improvement notice box:

Adding this notice box to a page is as simple as inserting this line at the top:

 {{Notice|Improve}}

Adding notice boxes will not only display helpful information, but it may also add the article to a special category. For a list of notice boxes, see this page.

Important Topics

Attention Required

Any pages that have been put in these categories require attention. Once improved feel free to remove the notice to take it out of the category page.

When browsing a page if it has a version notice at the top, be sure to update the n.umber if you update the information in the page. If it doesn't have one, we would appreciate it if you put a version notice in there. Just copy and paste the version and build notice from the main page.

Main page

• Are there any other sections we should add?
• Add more screenshots to the main page using this template.
• Suggest changes on the main page sandbox.