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Navigation

A list of the order templates should be put in on pages. These should be put on the bottom of pages where the templates are relevant.

Note: Before all standard templates, the template {{clr}} should be used. This will ensure there is no overlapping with other page elements and makes the page look nicer.

Assets

Categories of assets in the Level Builder.

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Versions

Versions an asset/feature was added.

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Games

Game of origin for an asset.

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Wily Wars (Should not be created unless exclusive content is added, such as bosses or tilesets.)

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Misc.

Categories that do not fit into the above criteria, and are usually the only template needed on relevant pages.

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Non-Playable Characters
Dr. Wily Dr. Light Dr. Cossack

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Sort through this I guess

The Ultimate Guide To Editing the Mega Man Maker Wiki by Midas Magnezone and DarkiusMC

This guide is intended for people who wish to contribute to the wiki but don’t know where to start. Well, to start with, you need an account on the Mega Man Maker wiki!

Create account / Log is in the top right corner

Make an account: All you need is an email and a password. You need to enter the secret password (don’t worry, it’s the same everytime) to create an account and enter it everytime you wish to make a contribution. This is to ensure that spambots and bots don’t flood the wiki as has happened in the past.

Once you make a contribution, this needs to be approved by a moderator before it shows up publicly. Edits are approved regularly, but if it’s been a few days and your edit has still not been approved, please ping a wiki mod in the Discord server or message a mod on the wiki.

Try to be professional when editing the wiki. Imagine you’re writing an encyclopedia encompassing all of Mega Man Maker: that’s the goal of the wiki. A few tips: - Check for spelling mistakes in writing and include punctuation marks. - Use in clear, concise, proper English. Imagine a fifth grader reading your work: it should make sense to them. - Try and avoid contractions where possible (e.g. it’s can be written as it is.)

You may have conflicting views on how to make the wiki better. While this guide tries to lay down general rules for editing the wiki, some things may be too nuanced to mention explicitly. Please respect other people’s edits to your work: everyone. If you disagree on an edit, avoid edit wars: explain to the person what you disagree on and why in a civil manner. Don’t be a troll and make the mods’ lives harder. You’re not helping.

If you have any questions, feel free to post a message in #mmm_wiki.

Admins (only ping for things like deleting unused pages or other things that regular mods cannot do) - Goldstorm - Luigi

Wiki mods (please ping for any issues regarding the wiki) - Midas Magnezone/Neko - DarkiusMC - BigMaster - Uranus - CctheOwl (anybody else?)

Where to start? - Check out special pages: https://wiki.megamanmaker.com/index.php/Special:SpecialPages for list of stuff to work on. This includes:

- Images: Lots of pages need images to be uploaded. Check the list of pages mentioned at the bottom of this page: https://wiki.megamanmaker.com/index.php/File:Imageneeded.png. Simple high quality screenshots (preferably in 2x or 3x resolution) will suffice. For enemies and level objects with multiple options, images with all the variants placed in a single image are recommended instead of one image for each variant.

To upload an image, go to the sidebar and click on “Upload file”. Please upload high quality images wherever possible, unless they are sprites found in the game that would be better at their original resolution, such as icons. This is to ensure that images don’t lose quality when upscaled on the wiki. To remove transparent backgrounds, use the magic tool feature in paint.net and upload the image as a PNG

Place images on an article the same way you would with hyperlinks: double square brackets with “File:” at the start, followed by the name of the image e.g. File:EnemyAssetExample.png

When naming pages, use an appropriate name and descriptors for the image that would be easy to type and remember (e.g. an image of the enemy Bell Ringer being defeated by the player could be written with the name BellRingerDefeated.png or Bell_Ringer_Defeated.png). Try and spell out numbers or special characters so that they’re easier to type and search for.

To capture a screenshot in-game, use the F9 button. This will capture a screenshot at the window resolution your game is currently in (1x, 2x, 3x, 4x). To record a GIF, use the F7 button to start and stop recording a GIF. This is however not preferred to record GIFs for the wiki due to the compression involved; instead, use the tool ScreenToGif to create small GIFs. Anything longer than 10 seconds is likely too big for the wiki and would probably be better as a video

(e.g. of page that needs updating of images: profile icons)

- Categorize pages: A lot of pages still need categories to be added to them. To do so, add [[Category:CategoryName]] to the end of a page to add a page to a category. A list of categories can be found here: https://wiki.megamanmaker.com/index.php/Special:Categories

- Update content: stub pages that need more information. Any information added about the page is appreciated.

- Missing pages: Pages that still need to be made. Here is a list of red links that need pages to be made: https://wiki.megamanmaker.com/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages&limit=500&offset=0 Be sure the missing is not a misspelling of an existing page or a duplicate of a page that already exists. Some pages may be better off as redirects written simply as #REDIRECT page name on that page

- Formatting/grammar fixes: these include things like: - bolding the first instance of the name of the page - italicizing any names of games

- incorrect grammar (“it’s” instead of “its”, things that don’t make sense or can be rectified, missing punctuation marks, etc.)

- try and link to a page on the wiki wherever possible. This is known as a hyperlink. Use two square brackets like this: example to link to that page on the wiki. To link to a page on another website, use single brackets with the link then a space then the text that will be have that link e.g. [www.google.com example] will show up as “example” linking to www.google.com when clicked on - if there are multiple instances in a single page of something that has a wiki page, only create a hyperlink for the first instance of that thing from the top of that page.

- be consistent throughout. There are things like dates or alternate spellings where it is generally fine to use one of the many accepted formats as long as you are consistent throughout the page

- American spelling is preferred, but British spelling is fine as long as you are consistent with one version throughout a page (e.g. color vs colour)

for versions of dates, please use one of the three listed below: mdy (16:12, January 15, 2001) dmy (16:12, 15 January 2001) ymd (16:12, 2001 January 15)

additionally, numerical dates i.e. yyyy-mm-dd (2001-01-15) may be used in special cases (also called the "all-numeric" format; used only where space is limited, such as in references and some tables and infoboxes, but not in article text proper).

- adding templates to the bottom of the page (version, type of asset, from which game the asset is from; see https://wiki.megamanmaker.com/index.php/User:DarkiusMC/Templates for a full list of what should be added to a page)

- look out for missing information that can be added to a template, often the asset template (the infobox on the right of the page) https://wiki.megamanmaker.com/index.php/Template:Asset (e.g. enemies missing the amount of hp they have.)

Templates: these are a way of informing the reader of certain things like a page that needs an image, requires more information, is from an upcoming content, or which game/asset/version a page relates to. These can be added by using {{TemplateName}}. Some templates are simple: just pop the template name in squiggly brackets and a message will show up (e.g. ImageNeeded, Upcoming Content). Others, like the Asset or User templates, require you to add additional parameters to the template.

Here is a list of templates you can add to a page (check the categories of templates at the top if you don’t know what a template is for) https://wiki.megamanmaker.com/index.php/Category:Templates

Tables are a great way to organize information on the wiki. The usual format is as follows:

Icon	Weapon	Contribution(s)	Added in Version	Notes
	Mega Buster	Code	1.6.0
	Proto Buster

this is just a guide intended to get people into the wiki: feel free to suggest anything not mentioned here that should be added

Formatting tips

== Title == for adding a main subtitle

=== Title === for adding a smaller subtitle

‘’Test’’ for italics. Usually used for names of games

‘’’Test’’’ for bolding. Usually used for emphasis or bolding the first instance of the name of the page.

‘’’’’Test’’’’’ for both bolding and italics. Usually used for bolding a game’s name in the first instance of the name of the page.

{{clr}} ensures that any text above it is completely finished before starting the text after the {{clr}} on its own section. Usually used for text after a template or a table.

< nowiki > Text < /nowiki > (without spaces) to write characters that are ignored by wiki formatting e.g. “In ‘’Mega Man Maker’’< nowiki >’< /nowiki >s first release…” the use of nowiki ensures that “’s” does not interfere with other apostrophes elsewhere in a text.

<syntaxhighlight lang="CSS" inline> Test code </syntaxhighlight> for publishing any code that requires code formatting. Not commonly used but may pop up when talking about game files.

{{Template}} used anytime you want to link to a template. For more in-depth templates like the Asset template, write in a similar way to tables:

Weapon capsule

Pink theme sucks

Information Level Builder Description: No, it doesn't. Category: Pickups Game information HP: N/A Damage: A lot Weakness(es): Metal Blade Series information Game of origin: Mega Man 2 Development Programmer(s): rollerC Spriter(s): Justazag Sound effect creator(s): BigMaster {{{sprite}}}

{{ and }} start and end the template. Each now parameter is written as |parameter= where any text or image can be part after the equal to sign for the parameter.

https://wiki.megamanmaker.com/index.php/Template:Asset

{{User:UserName}} links to a user page. [[:Category:CategoryName]] links to a category. {{:Category:CategoryName}} pastes the text on that category page. Not really required, but handy to know just incase.

#REDIRECT [[PageName]] redirects to a specific page. Often useful to link to specific sections on a page, common misspellings or alternate spellings of assets.

Although the first Mega Man game is commonly known as Mega Man 1, it should be referred to as Mega Man in italics wherever possible unless mentioned otherwise in Mega Man Maker specifically.

See wiki policy pages (images, formatting, upcoming content, etc.)