Wiki Contributions & Translations

The Resonite Wiki is a community project. Thank you for all your help and contributions! We are a tiny team and maintaining it wouldn't be possible without you. Everyone regardless of their status in Resonite can edit the wiki. Any contributions are welcome and wanted. Please edit away!

Wiki Moderation

For each user, their first few edits will be placed in a Moderation queue, these are usually approved quickly.

Once approved, users are usually added to the automoderated user group, which prevents subsequent edits from needing moderation.

Editing guidelines

Before you get started, here are some guidelines on editing the wiki to keep in mind.

Drafts/Reviews etc

Just edit it! You don't need any special status, approval or permission to edit the wiki.
Don't send us drafts or WIPs. Just edit away. We'll work on content as we go. :)
Don't use Google Docs or Word to draft documentation. Writing directly in the wiki helps you to think like a wiki.
Follow the principle of "progressive enhancement." Good -> Better -> Best

Style

When writing, we don't really have a "writing style" to follow, but we do have some guidelines:

Use American English.
Link to other articles lots! Cross linking articles is fantastic.
Write using proper sentences and casing.
- Avoid over capitalization.
Write using you and we instead of I - This brings the user along for the journey with you.
Avoid article names that are sentences. "ProtoFlux" is better than "What is ProtoFlux" in this case, ProtoFlux should contain information about what ProtoFlux is without saying it in the title.
Use headings... lots. They help with readability.
Use bullet pointed lists. They're great.
Avoid tables for large paragraphs of text.
- Factual data, numerical data, etc. are fine. But we often see tables that would be better served as a collection of multiple tables, or a collection of multiple bullet pointed lists or headings.
Avoid using "Click here" or "here" or "page"
- Instead try incorporating the name of the article or link into the sentence.
  - Click here to read about bot commands => Bot commands allow you to do cool things
- There's an article, that explains more.
Avoid "Introduction" headings. The first few paragraphs of your page are the introduction. See basically every page on wikipedia for examples.

Formatting

Due to the ever changing nature of the wiki and its internationalization requirements, we'll need you to format things in a certain way.

You can find a quick guide to Wikitext formatting on the MediaWiki Formatting help page.

Avoid using ancient HTML tags.
- ```
<b>,<br>,<i>,<div> etc
```
  should be avoided. Use the WikiText Equivalents wherever possible.
- If you need a line break, add a literal line break.
Avoid starting a page with a heading which is a copy of the page name. The title of the page is the page name, not the first heading.

Colors

Avoid manually setting color related properties on wiki pages. This can break the light/dark mode switcher for elements you touch.
Use the color variables defined in Mediawiki:Citizen.css
We're researching a way to use our Skin's color theming instead, which would make items work with light and dark mode and ensure consistency.

Icons

Wherever you can use actual SVG files for these. They allow users to update them at a later date more easily.

Page Descriptions

In search results, we use the Short Description extension to allow a page to show a small description in the search.

To add a description to a page use: {{SHORTDESC:<description>}}

Finding content to edit

The Resonite Wiki is a very fast moving environment as the community tries to keep up with various Resonite changes and updates. To that end, it can be unclear what needs to be edited or tweaked.

Stubs

To help with this, we have a number of pages which list content that is in need of attention. These pages are called Stubs. You can find a list of stubs on these automatically generated pages:

Check these pages regularly for lists of pages that need help.

Components & Nodes

Resonite Users use a huge amount of ProtoFlux Nodes and Components to create in-game content. All of these need documentation!

Templates

Currently we do not have proper component/node templates. This will be updated once they are developed!

ProtoFlux Nodes

Check Category:ProtoFlux for a list of nodes. It resembles the in-game Node Browser. Any nodes could do with reviews, edits and updates but if you see a Node with a Red link, that means it is undocumented. Please feel free to type documentation for it!

Components

We have a list of components on Category:Components which can have gaps or missing pages. If you find a component that is missing documentation please go ahead and add it.

Making Larger Changes

When making changes to the wiki, the general principle is to go right ahead. However, when making changes to larger pages such as the Main Page or pages which are edited, touched or translated frequently, please be careful. There are sometimes subtleties and nuances that need to be covered when editing these pages. Please double check in the Wiki channel of the Resonite Discord before you make such changes. The community there will say yes a lot of the time, but sometimes a discussion may be required.

Editing Help

The Resonite Wiki uses Media Wiki as its wiki engine, and MediaWiki has extensive documentation on how to edit Wiki pages.

Everyone can make a wiki account to contribute to existing pages and create new ones.

Translating

For translating information read Help:Translating.

Citations

We use the MediaWiki Cite Extension to enable you to cite parts of an article. To use this extension you can refer to MediaWiki Cite help page.

For some added guidance for this wiki specifically:

Citing is not mandatory but it is appreciated when suitable
Be careful when linking to transient sources. For example, Twitch Vods may become unavailable.
Examples of suitable sources:
- Discord Messages
- Youtube Videos
- GitHub Issues
- Social Media
- Patch Notes etc.

Accessibility

Images

Make sure your images are accessible. Our recommendations:

Highlight relevant portions of the image with an image editor such as button pushes or input boxes the user should focus on
Upload a large image, and use WikiText to shrink it down.
Always specify a caption straight after the image name e.g. [[File:bunny.png|A photograph of a bunny]].
- When the caption is the first item after the image name, it will be automatically placed in the HTML image tag's alt attribute.
- If you need to make a separate alt-text from a caption, you can use the alt parameter.