Hey all, as you know Deltarune is releasing in a few hours and I wanted to announce how will we be handling the content of new chapters.
Spoilers policy
Firstly, when posting to Discussions you are required to mark spoilers! You can mark spoilers by wrapping text in [spoiler]...[/spoiler] tags. Like this.
Secondly, the wiki content itself does not have spoiler warnings and you are advised to proceed with caution - if looking at the recent changes you are almost certainly going to get spoiled on some content. If you want to disable the recent changes module in the sidebar while looking at other wiki content, hop to your preferences, uncheck "Recent Changes Module", then save.
If you do end up watching wiki activity, I ask you to please notify us of any disruptions immediately, either through the Discord server, by pinging @Deltarune Wiki Staff or through Discussions, by messaging the staff group.
How can you contribute
If you wish to contribute to the wiki, great! A bunch of skeleton articles will be created on the wiki upon the game's release, and you can help by filling them out with information! You can find the articles that need creation over at wanted pages, and articles that need expansion over at article stubs.
The main article categories that we have are:
- Character articles
- Item articles
- Soundtrack articles
- Location articles
- Mechanic articles
Character and location articles are ones that require the most content, but you don't have to add them it at once! The wiki evolves gradually, and if just describing the personality of characters is your thing you can just fill out these sections. Character articles will most likely have some skeleton content that you can fill out, and they are usually the most popular articles so there will be many users editing them. Location articles aren't as popular, but you can start creating them as soon as you notice they are needed!
Item and soundtrack articles are usually short and to the point. If you prefer tackling shorter articles first, you can start from those! They should have most infobox information filled out by the time you get to them, but describing how you get the items, their special effects, where the tracks play and so cannot be done automatically, so there will definitely be some work over there! Just less work per page than for characters and locations.
Mechanic (gameplay mechanic and plot element) articles are best left for when we properly assess the overall chapter structure and see how important are certain mechanics to the game. For example, we don't know if POINTs will be important or just a side gag, so that article may be merged together with some other in the future.
If you discover the Chapter 3 or 4's secret route, please pick a name different from "Snowgrave Route" and we'll vote on the real name later. Weird Route could work as a placeholder, just make sure to put a {{for|the Chapter 2 route|Snowgrave Route}} at the top if you choose that.
On a high level, you can help by creating navigation links to the new pages, or to pages that should exist in the future. This includes:
- Updating the wiki navboxes:
- Characters
- Items
- Locations
- Soundtrack (has to be created)
- Updating the category page navigation
- Main page (update the Locations box to add the new Dark Worlds)
I need help with wiki contribution
The best way to ask for help is the #wiki channel over at our Discord server! If you prefer on-wiki communication, you can start a topic in the Wiki Discussion board with your question.
If you're ever wondering what's the wiki's standard on something, we have the manual of style and page organization guide written down! But they are very long, and you don't need to read them all before contributing, because the first priority is to get the content out there, and we can fix it up to standards later.
Helpful links
- Need to create a page? Special:NewPage.
- Need to upload a file? You can do it from the editor, or use Special:Upload.
- Want to look at missing articles? Special:WantedPages.
- Want to find articles to expand? Category:Article stubs.
- You saw vandalism? Click "History" in the dropdown next to the "Edit" button and undo the edit that did it, then let us know!
Last words
It's been a long 4 years, but we're finally here. The next several weeks are going to be hectic, but they are also going to be a lot of fun and I wish everyone a happy Deltarune!