Help:Structure
If you were looking for a complete list of categories, see:http://www.diablowiki.net/Special:Categories If you are here for learning a bit about categories and diablowiki structure, continue.
StructureEdit
Categories are essential to the structure of Diablowiki. A large part of what is searched in Diablowiki depends onthe use of categories. When adding pages to categories, add them in the largest yet most fitting category available.This article will help with that.
Keep in mind that the category structure is rather confusing at the moment and needs some organising, and that articles can fit into multiple categories
Adding Articles to CategoriesEdit
The line used for adding pages and images to categories is [[:Category:<category name here>]]. There should not be a need to create new categories, as plenty of them exist to cover all the topics here in Diablowiki.
If you need help with understanding where to put pages, use your best judgement. Alternatively, if you cannot decide, you can ask Elly or another dedicated editor where to put them.
Remember, when adding pages to a category, punctuation and grammar matter. For example, you will not successfully put a article about witch doctors into Category:Witch Doctor by typing Category: witch doctors.
Default Category:RootEdit
The "category to rule them all", is Category:Root. From here is where all other categories expand from. There should not be a need to add pages to this category.
Category:ContentEdit
Category:Content is where most categories about Diablo start from. It includes all the categories that are about Diablo 3's content. Articles still do not need to be in this category, as they are covered by sub-categories.
Category:BasicsEdit
Category:Basics is where general descriptions of topics, such as Acts, go. Acts would fit into this category, instead of into.
Category:GameplayEdit
Category:Gameplay is another main category, specifically for diablo 3's gameplay. Again, it is unnecessary to put pages into this category, as most will fit into sub-categories.
Category:ClassesEdit
Category:Classes is a general category for information regarding all classes. For example, a general page about skill runes would fit in this category, whereas information about Fury would belong in a class-specific section.
Other special class categories include:
- Category:Classes (Diablo II) - Diablo 2 classes.
- Category:Fan classes - Fan-made classes.
Category:(Specific Classes)Edit
- Category:Barbarian - Specific class information about Barbarians.
- Category:Barbarian Skills - Specific information about Barbarian skills.
- Category:Demon Hunter - Specific class information about Demon Hunters.
- Category:Demon Hunter Skills - Specific information about Demon Hunter skills.
- Category:Witch Doctor - Specific class information about Witch Doctors.
- Category:Witch Doctor Skills - Specific information about Demon Hunter skills.
- Category:Wizard - Specific class information about Wizards.
- Category:Wizard Skills - Specific information about Wizard skills.
- Category:Monk - Specific class information about Monks.
- Category:Monk Skills - Specific information about Monk skills.
Category:ActsEdit
Category:Acts contains information relevant to all of Diablo 3's acts. Specific act categories contain information relevant to only one act. Even more specific categories, such as the Quests and Levels categories, contain specific information about specific quests and levels in each act.
Category:QuestsEdit
Category:Quests should only contain act quest sub-categories and special quests, like the Infernal Machine, that cannot be bound to one act.
Category:ItemsEdit
Category:Items contains general articles about items and items not covered by a sub-category. Sub-categories include:
- Category:Weapons
- Category:Armor
- Category:Jewelry (rings and amulets)
- Category:Artefacts (lore books, special items)
Category:MonstersEdit
Category:Monsters Contains information about monsters in diablo 3 not covered by a sub-category, or contains broad information about monsters. Some sub-categories are:
- Category:SuperUniques - General category for purple titled bosses.
- Category:Objects
- Category:Undead
- Category:Demons
- Category:Monster images - General monster images category.
Category:SkillsEdit
Category:Skills contains Diablo 3 skill information. Previously mentioned skill categories are sub-categories of this one.
Other CategoriesEdit
- Category:NPCs - Diablo 3 NPC's category.
- Category:Reference - Contains other bits of information, such as a glossary, acronyms, and statistics.
- Category:Play styles - Various play styles developed in Diablo 3.
Category:LoreEdit
Category:Lore contains lore information for the diablo series. The major sub-categories are:
- Category:Characters - Characters important to the Diablo story, like Tyrael and Deckard Cain.
- Category:Angels
- Category:Demons
- Category:Factions - Factions in the Diablo Universe.
There are several other categories in this area, but they are, for the most part, covered by articles already in these sections.
Category:GuidesEdit
- Category:Guides - User-made guides for the Wiki. Guides might end up in multiple categories.
Category:CommunityEdit
Category:Community Contains community-related articles/categories.
- Category:Fansites - Diablo fansites' own category.
- Category:Diii.net - All articles relating to Diii.net.
- Category:Diii.net images - Images for or about Diii.net.
- Category:Diii.net - All articles relating to Diii.net.
- Category:Guilds - Listing of guilds.
- Category:Users - Listing of wiki users.
- Category:Trivia - Fun facts, easter eggs etc.
- Category:Diablo lingo - Expressions and concepts that are common for Diablo.
- Category:Reference - A category to collect terms of the game as a handy encyclopaedia.
- Category:Abbreviations and Acronyms - Sub category specifically for Abbreviations and Acronyms.
- Category:Blizzard - Articles with information about Blizzard and Blizzard employees.
- Category:BlizzCon - Articles about BlizzCons.
- Category:WWI - Articles about WWIs.
- Category:BlizzCast - BlizzCast-related articles.
- Category:Fan-made - Articles and other content made by fans. Non-canon.
- Category:Fan art - Everything related to fan art.
- Category:Fan art images - Fan art images.
- Category:Fan fiction - Everything related to fan fiction.
- Category:Fan classes - Classes made by fans.
- Category:Fan art - Everything related to fan art.
- Category:Merchandise - All types of Diablo-related merchandise should go here.
- Category:Speculation - Speculation about things involving the games.
- Category:People - Articles with information about important figures in the Diablo Community.
- Category:Modders - List of individuals who make Diablo mods.
- Category:Mods - Articles about diablo mods.
- Category:Fansites - Diablo fansites' own category.
Category:GamesEdit
Category:Games Has general articles about the various diablo games.
- Category:Diablo I - D1 + exp.
- Category:Diablo I dialogues - Articles with Diablo I dialogues. (*)
- Category:Diablo II - D2 + exp.
- Category:Classes (Diablo II) - Diablo 2 Classes. (*)
- Category:Diablo II dialogues - Articles with Diablo I dialogues. (*)
- Category:Diablo III - D3
- Category:Diablo IIII dialogues - Articles with Diablo I dialogues. (*)
- Category:Diablo III images - D3 images. (*)
- Category:Classes - Diablo 3 Classes. (*)
- Category:World of WarCraft - WoW
- Category:WarCraft - WarCraft (the RTS games)
- Category:StarCraft - StarCraft
- Category:Diablo I - D1 + exp.
Sources - Category:SourcesEdit
Category:Sources has All types of Diablo information sources. Games, books, graphic novels, or similar products should be added to Category:Sources, the main sources category.
- Category:Archives - Category for all old articles saved for archiving purposes.
- Category:Barbarian skill archive - Older, unused skills
- Category:Merchandise - Category for all products in the Diablo franchise that are not games or expansions.
- Category:Roleplaying books - Diablo RPG books.
- Category:Novels - Diablo Novels.
- Category:Game dialogues - Dialogues transcripted from the games.
- Category:Diablo II dialogues - Articles with Diablo II dialogues go here.
- Category:Diablo I dialougues - Same as above, yet for Diablo I.
- Category:Controversies - Controversies in diablo.
- Category:Media Coverage - Media Coverage.
- Category:Events - BlizzCons, WWIs and other events.
- Category:BlizzCon - Articles about BlizzCons.
- Category:BlizzCon images - Images from BlizzCons.
- Category:WWI - Articles about WWIs.
- Category:WWI images - Images from WWI's.
- Category:BlizzPress - Articles about Blizzard press releases, updates and other, smaller events.
- Category:BlizzCast - BlizzCast-related articles.
- Category:BlizzCon - Articles about BlizzCons.
- Category:Media Coverage Templates - Templates used specifically in the Media coverage articles.
- Category:Events - BlizzCons, WWIs and other events.
- Category:Manuals - Manuals from the Diablo games.
Category:DiabloWikiEdit
All articles used by DiabloWiki or its contributors should be added to Category:DiabloWiki, the main DiabloWiki category.
- Category:Disambiguations - A list of all Disambiguation pages.
- Category:Boilerplates - DiabloWiki's boilerplates listed.
- Category:Help - Help pages sorted.
- Category:Main Page - All pages related to Main Page.
- Category:Featured articles - A category of articles of higher value, featured on main page.
- Category:Templates - Templates sorted.
- Category:DiabloWiki templates - Templates used for/by DiabloWiki.
- Category:Featured templates - Templates of Featured articles.
- Category:Formatting templates - Templates used for/by DiabloWiki formatting
- Category:Media Coverage Templates - Templates used specifically in the Media coverage article.
- Category:Infoboxes - Templates used to give information in an article.
- Category:Navboxes - Templates used to give navigation in an article.
- Category:Stubs - Articles to clean up or evolve.
- Category:Images to clean up - Images up for replacement.
- Category:Delete - Articles, categories, templates etc that need to be deleted.
- Category:Featured articles - A category of articles of higher value, featured on main page.
- Category:Featured templates - Templates of Featured articles.
Images - Category:ImagesEdit
All image categories should be added to Category:Images, the main image category.
Some of these categories might go unused for a long time, but if the need arises, use these.
- Category:Monster images - Images of monsters. (*)
- Category:Monster art - Art of monsters. (*)
- Category:Monster screenshots - Shots of monsters. (*)
- Category:Character images - Images of characters. (*)
- Category:Character art - Art of characters. (*)
- Category:Character screenshots - Shots of characters. (*)
- Category:Artwork - All artwork.
- Category:Diablo I artwork - D1 (*)
- Category:Diablo II artwork (*)
- Category:Diablo III artwork - D3 (*)
- Category:Diablo unsourced artwork - Unknown
- Category:Monster art - Art of monsters. (*)
- Category:Character art - Art of characters. (*)
- Category:Items art - Art of ingame items
- Category:Fan art images - Fan art (*)
- Category:Merchandise art - Group category for merchandise art.
- Category:Graphic novel images - Images from the graphic novels.
- Category:Book covers - Covers from the Diablo books.
- Category:Statuette images - Images of statuette.
- Category:Screenshots - Screenshots of the games.
- Category:Official screenshots - Official Blizzard released screenshots.
- Category:Diablo I screenshots - Shots from Diablo I. (*)
- Category:Diablo II screenshots - Shots from Diablo II. (*)
- Category:Diablo III screenshots - Shots from Diablo III. (*)
- Category:Skill screenshots - Shots of skills used, or stats.
- Category:Character screenshots - Shots of characters. (*)
- Category:Monster screenshots - Shots of monsters. (*)
- Category:Goatmen screenshots - Shots of goatmen.
- Category:Level screenshots - Shots on in-game levels and areas (struct).
- Category:Kurast screenshots - Shots on Kurast.
- Category:XXX screenshots - Shots on XXX. (continue)
- Category:UI images - Pictures of loading screens.
- Category:Diablo I UI images - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
- Category:Diablo I loading screens - Pictures of loading screens.
- Category:Diablo II UI images - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
- Category:Diablo II loading screens - Pictures of loading screens.
- Category:Diablo III UI images - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
- Category:Diablo III loading screens - Pictures of loading screens.
- Category:Diablo I UI images - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
- Category:Game images - General category for alternate navigation.
- Category:Diablo I images - D1 images.
- Category:Diablo I artwork - Artwork from D1 (*)
- Category:Diablo I screenshots - Shots from Diablo I. (*)
- Category:Diablo I UI images - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
- Category:Diablo II images - D2 images.
- Category:Diablo II artwork - Artwork from D2 (*)
- Category:Diablo II screenshots - Shots from Diablo 2. (*)
- Category:Diablo II UI images - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
- Category:Diablo III images - D3 images. (*)
- Category:Diablo III artwork - Artwork from D3 (*)
- Category:Diablo III screenshots - Shots from Diablo 3. (*)
- Category:Diablo III UI images - Pictures of User Interface details. (*)
- Category:Diablo I images - D1 images.
- Category:DiabloWiki images - Images used by the Wiki.
- Category:Template images - Images used in templates.
- Category:Community images
- Category:Guild images
- Category:Fan art images - Fan art. (*)
- Category:Fake screenshots - Fan art.
- Category:Diii.net images - Images for or about Diii.net. (*)
- Category:Blizzard images - Images for or about Blizzard. (*)
- Category:BlizzCon images - Images from BlizzCons. (*)
- Category:WWI images - Images from WWI's. (*)
- Category:Maps - Images of maps (*)
- Category:Images to clean up - Images up for replacement. (*)
Final WordsEdit
Adding a few final words here.
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