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Wiki Editing

The main reference for editing wiki pages can be found here.

It's also worth printing out a copy of the MediaWiki Reference Card, which covers the most commonly used markup (I keep a copy of it under my mouse mat -- Yasueh (talk)).

For editing large and complex sections of wiki code (such as large tables with many CSS style tags), it can sometimes be easier to copy the code into an editor like Notepad++ - which provides more advanced features than the in wiki editor, such as find/replace - and then copy the edited code back into the wiki edit box.

Colors

These are the hexadecimal red/green/blue values for colors used on this site. Some may already have been defined for use in <span> tags at MediaWiki:Common.css

Character Classes      c41f3b death knight      ff7d0a druid      abd473 hunter      69ccf0 mage      00ff96 monk      f58cba paladin      ffffff priest      fff569 rogue      0070de shaman      9482c9 warlock      c79c6e warrior

Item Qualities      1eff00 WoW item green      0070dd WoW item blue      a335ee WoW item purple

Site Colors      ff9e00 phi orange high      ff009e phi pink high      9e00ff phi purple high      009eff phi blue high      00ff9e phi aqua high      9eff00 phi green high      ff6100 phi orange low      ff0061 phi pink low      6100ff phi purple low      0061ff phi blue low      00ff61 phi aqua low      61ff00 phi green low

Uploading Images

PicPick is a screen capture program that has the ability to grab just a section of the screen, and it includes a basic image editor.

Most image content for the site though should be sourced from the game files where possible, to ensure that eg. captures of semi-transparent images don't include the background. The files comprising the game's User Interface can be extracted using this method, and then a program like XnView can be used to browse the images, which are in .blp format. blp2png can then be used to convert them to a format compatible with use on the web.

Because images on the wiki may be added into pages through template code, their file names should be all lower case, and of a similar form. Being descriptive in the file name also saves having to fill in the description field when uploading, and makes it easier to find groups of files in the file list. eg.:

• icon class druid.png
• icon trade blacksmithing.png
• icon race orc female.png
• icon dungeon ragefire chasm.png
• icon ability warrior shield slam.png
• screenshot npc auctioneer sowata.png
• screenshot npc bow and rifle vendor kaja.png
• screenshot location booty bay.png -
• map world city azeroth orgrimmar.png - Maps form the main map called up by pressing 'M'.
• map world zone northrend icecrown.png
• map world dungeon ragefire chasm.png
• map mini valley of wisdom.png - minimap scale maps, which may have been stitched together from several images (or extracted from game data and cropped).

Wowhead Tooltips

This wiki includes JavaScript that modifies links to items, abilities, etc. on the wowhead.com site, so that they have icons and correctly colored text, as well as mouse-over tooltips. Use edit or view source on this section to see the code used (it's not posible to provide a text example here without the JavaScript converting it).

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[2] (with enchant, gem and pieces for set bonus in the tooltip)