Melvor Idle:Contributing

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What to do

If you want to help but don't know what you can do, here are a couple of things you can do: Contributing/To-Do List

What not to do

A lot of the content on the Wiki is also generated via Lua functions. Please be cautious around this. If you notice a page generated by Lua, contact one of the Wiki Admins before editing the page.

If you wish to add information on pages with generated content, please edit the text above the placement of the template. For example, Crown of Rhaelyx.

Generated content currently includes:

The Item Template, Armour Stats Template, and Weapon Stats Template on Item pages
The Item Source Templates generated for each item page
The Monster Template on Monster pages
The Dungeon Template, Slayer Area Template, and Combat Area Template on Dungeon, Slayer Area, and Combat Area pages respectively
The Prayer Template on Prayer pages
The Spell Template, Aurora Template, Curse Template, Ancient Magick Template, and Alt. Magic Template on Spell pages
The Pet Template on Pet pages
The Shop Upgrade Template on Upgrade pages, with the exception of Misc. Upgrades which are maintained manually.
All Table Templates

If you do find an issue with the accuracy of information in any of these templates, it is possible that the internal game data is flawed, or there has been a recent hotfix (hidden update without a version number change) to the game code and the Lua data modules need to be updated.

Templates

We use a number of templates on the wiki for various purposes. Such as the {{Menu}} template for the menu at the bottom of the page. To access the source page of a template, as for example the Menu template, simply go to the Template:Menu page. Because these pages are templates, they will automatically be imported when referred to, and therefore do not need the prior colon. Otherwise you'd need to prepend a colon to the page name {{:Menu}} to include its content.

Templates furthermore support numeric arguments, referenced in the templates by {{{1}}}, but also named arguments. An example of this would be {{{text}}} for {{ItemIcon|Mole|text=A summon}}.

Some of the templates are simply wrappers for Lua modules, which will include {{#invoke:SomeModule|someFunction}}. To access the module source files, simply go to Module:SomeModule, and look for someFunction in there.

Also note that if an argument is optional, you can simply append a pipe symbol after its name (be it numeric or a named keyword argument) to default to the empty string.

Versioning

We have created a system of templates to mark which pages are up to date. At the top of every page there should be a template indicating for which version the page is written. This will look like either {{V}} or {{V|1.0}}.

If a page is entirely populated by Lua-powered templates, then simply add {{V}} to the top of the page.
If a page contains a decent amount of user-written text that has the potential to change with each version, then the version number should be specified. For example, if a page is written for version 1.0 you would add {{V|1.0}} to the top of the page.

Each page should have a version attached to it. Every version can be found in the Versions Category. One of the main tasks is to make sure that pages are up to date.

You can view the versioning system in action on the top right corner of this page.

Main article

If you have a bit of text in a page but have more text explaining that concept on another page, it might be a good idea to use the Main Template. This template adds a formatted link to the main article to the page. It can be seen in action on the Beginners Guide.

Icons

`{{Icon\|Loot Container Stacking}}`	Loot Container Stacking
`{{Icon\|Zarrah\|type=pet}}`	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Zarrah
`{{PetIcon\|Zarrah}}`	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Zarrah
`{{MonsterIcon\|Necromancer}}`	Necromancer
`{{ZoneIcon\|Strange Cave}}`	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Strange Cave
`{{Skill\|Mining\|Rock extraction}}`	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Rock extraction
`{{PrayerIcon\|Eagle Eye}}`	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Eagle Eye
`{{ItemIcon\|Pig}}`	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pig
`{{Icon\|Wind Strike\|type=spell}}`	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Wind Strike
`{{Icon\|Weakening III\|type=curse}}`	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Weakening III
`{{UpgradeIcon\|Golbin Crate\|nolink=true}}`	Golbin Crate
`{{ItemIcon\|Lucky Herb Potion}}`	Lucky Herb Potion
Combat icon `{{Icon\|Melee\|notext=true}}`	Combat icon Error creating thumbnail: File missing
`{{GoldPrice\|price=100\|text=units of currency}}`	Template:GoldPrice

Tables

{{AreaMonsters|Spider Forest}}

Name	Combat Lvl	HP	Max Hit		Style	Count
Spider	51	250	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	72	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	3
Brown Spider	52	300	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	72	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	2
Evil Spider	90	750	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	102	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	2
Spider King	158	2,000	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	142	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	1

{{CombatTriangleAdjustmentTable}} Template:CombatTriangleAdjustmentTable

{{EquipmentTableFromList|Aeris God Helmet,Aeris God Platebody,Aeris God Platelegs,Aeris God Boots,Aeris God Gloves}}

ERROR: Some items not found in database: 'Aeris God Helmet,Aeris God Platebody,Aeris God Platelegs,Aeris God Boots,Aeris God Gloves'

Tables with Sticky Headers

Some of the tables on the wiki have headers which are "sticky", that is they will remain at the top of a table as the user scrolls down. See Equipment for an example of this. In order to implement this on your tables first add the class "stickyHeader" to the start of the table. E.g:

{| class="wikitable sortable"

would become:

{| class="wikitable sortable stickyHeader"

Before you start your first row of headers you then add |- class="headerRow-0" before it.

If you have a second row of headers you must add |- class="headerRow-1" before it.

As an example:

First Column 1	Second Column 1	Third Column 1
First Column 2	Second Column 2	Third Column 2
1	2	3

Can be generated with the following wikitext

{| class="wikitable sortable stickyHeader"
|- class="headerRow-0"
! First Column 1
! Second Column 1
! Third Column 1
|- class="headerRow-1"
! First Column 2
! Second Column 2
! Third Column 2
|-
| 1
| 2
| 3
|}

Special wiki stuff

`#REDIRECT [[Currency]]`	A single line with this in a page, will redirect it to the given page
`{{:Currency}}`	Includes the whole Currency page here
`<nowiki>something</nowiki>`	Disables wiki formatting for the string inside
`<onlyinclude>Hello</onlyinclude>`	When including the page, it will only display this text
`<includeonly>Hello</includeonly>`	Will only include the text while transcluding it, not in the source page
`<noinclude>Hello</noinclude>`	Removes this text when importing the page it as an include