Path of Diablo Wiki:About
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Wiki Editing
This section will provide a brief intro to editing the PoD wiki, with a focus on the formatting of skills.
The skill descriptions
Using Fire Wall as an example, the existing skill descriptions look like this:
Description: Creates a wall of flame that blocks of burns your enemies.
Required Level: 18
Prerequisites: Blaze, Immolate
This is the code makes it appear like that:
'''Description:''' Creates a wall of flame that blocks of burns your enemies. '''Required Level:''' 18 '''Prerequisites:''' Blaze, Immolate
You'll notice that the words in bold have three single quotes (''') surrounding them, this is the code formatting that makes characters bold in the wiki.
The modern standard for skill is to include a picture of the skill icon and clickable links in the list of prerequisites. Still picking on Fire Wall, the end product should look like this:
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The code to make this happen is a lot longer than the code to make the original happen, and it looks like this:
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{| <!-- Description table -->
|rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top; padding:0.5em 0.5em 0.5em 0.5em; width:5%"|https://pathofdiablo.com/wiki/images/sorceress/Fire%20Wall.png ||'''Description:''' Creates a wall of flame that blocks of burns your enemies'''
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|'''Required Level:''' 18
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|'''Prerequisites:''' [[Fire_Spells#Blaze|Blaze]], [[Fire_Spells#Immolate|Immolate]]
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In that example, we have 4 pieces of information that will vary from skill to skill and need to be edited to reflect the skill:
The labels for Description, Required Level, and Prerequisites are all in bold. The most obvious changes are the skills picture/icon and the clickable links in the prereq's list. All icons can be found here: https://pathofdiablo.com/wiki/images/ In there you'll see a folder for every class, and all skill icons for that classes skills can be found in its folder. Adding the link to the Fire Wall icon includes the picture in the description. You'll see a "pipe" | character before the icon link and a double pipe ( || ) after it, as well as in various other places in the code. These pipes help control placement and formatting of text throughout the wiki pages and are necessary to make it appear the way it's supposed to. The narrative skill description and level required are self explanatory, and generally I just copy the existing description from the old display into the new display. For skill prerequisites, the standard is for clickable links to the skills. For Fire Wall to get Blaze and Immolate as clickable links instead of just text, we'll be using the [[Fire_Spells#Blaze|Blaze]], [[Fire_Spells#Immolate|Immolate]] skill links in the code. To find copy/pasteable links to skills, navigate to the home page of the wiki and click on the relevant class link under the Character Attributes heading, and then click that classes Discussion tab. There, you'll see all that classes skills listed along with links that you can copy and paste. For this example we've been looking at sorceress skills, links for which can be found here. |
