User:MalonyJenkins/sandbox
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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 from 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.
(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.)
Editing Existing and/or Stub Pages
On occasion the Wiki Managers or the Indie Stone will set up Stub pages to be improved on later by Wiki editors, these simply need filling out/formatting with the most recent [[:Category:
- Add more content to stub articles
- Work on current pages in need of improvement
- Help with translating pages
- Add pages for these unused images (excluding the half whiskey and possibly bowls too.)
- Change 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.
- Move pages for things that are currently not in the game to the Category:Notyetingame 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:
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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.