12,486
edits
Changes
ADVERTISEMENT
From Diablo Wiki
no edit summary
==How do wikis work?==
A wiki is an open source document that anyone can edit or add to. "All of us are smarter than any of us," goes the theory. Wikis are designed to be easy to edit; they are primarily text-based, and you do not need to know HTML or PHP or CSS or any other programming language to edit wiki pages. The wiki can handle some HTML and CSS though, so if you do know something about it, you might get to use it.
For more practical purposes, you can jump right in and edit text on this wiki without knowing anything more than how to click the "edit" button. For the wiki-specific formatting, you can read more in the [[Help:Markup|wiki markup]] help page.
If you know about ''Diablo III'', you can fill in some pages that aren't yet online, or flesh out existing pages. A wiki is a living document, and with the game constantly evolving, there are always changes, updates, and corrections to be made to existing pages.
If you're less of an D3 expert, or aren't comfortable writing original material, you can help improve existing pages. Almost every page on this wiki could be improved by adding links to other related pages, illustrating the information by inserting [[Help:Image|images and thumbnails ]] or links to full screenshots, improving the navigation (by adding links or categorization) to help people find the pages they seekby adding [[Help:Markup#Creating Links|links]] or [[Help:Category|categorization]], or even just italicizing "Diablo II" as needed.
If you have experience with wikis you can help fix up errors or formatting problems, or work with people who know ''Diablo II'' or writing, but aren't wiki experts.
If you don't want to get that involved you can make smaller changes; fix typos, join the "[[Help:Talk|discussion]]" on a page or in our wiki forums to suggest additions or corrections or different interpretations.
==Do I need to know how to code?==
No. Wiki markup is very simple, much less complicated and fussy than HTML. Here's a [[Help:Markup|markup page ]] that list all the codes you will need. Alternatively, if you see something on a page that you'd like to replicate simply click 'edit' at the top of the page and see what the code is and copy and paste it to the page you're working on.
Tables of Contents (like the one at the top of this page) are created automatically from the headings in a page.
==Do I need a Wiki account to contribute?==
Yes, but there's a good chance you already have one. The {{WikiTitle}} was linked to the [http://forums.diii.net/ Diablo II and Diablo III Site forums], so if you're a forum member, you can possibly use that account to edit the wiki. If you're not a forum or {{WikiTitle}} member, you can [[Special:Userlogin|sign up]] in a heartbeat!
==Any guidelines to adding content==
==If I create a page can I stop others amending it?==
No. The whole point of a wiki is that all of us are smarter than one of us, and that as much as you or I know about some topic, someone else knows more. That being said, intentional misinformation and inflammatory or libellous comments are prohibited, and pages that deal with controversial subjects or are victimized by malicious editing (also known as [[Help:Vandalism|vandalism]] may be temporarily locked. Pages of great importance such as the [[Main Page]] might also be locked from contributor changes.
