WARFRAME Wiki:Onboarding

User onboarding on editing and maintaining this wiki. New and returning contributors may be unfamiliar with the demeanor involved in wiki editing as well as the technical side of wikis (e.g. wikitext syntax, templates, modules, etc.). This article serves as a link repository to well established resources on important wiki editing topics and open source contribution. Feel free to ask wiki admins or other editors for any questions about wiki editing.

Code of Conduct[]

• WARFRAME Wiki:Talk Page and Comment Policy
• WARFRAME Wiki:Chat Policy
• community:Help:Community guidelines
• community:Help:Assuming good faith
• m:Universal Code of Conduct
• https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/1/code_of_conduct/code_of_conduct.txt

Convention and Styling[]

This is ensure consistency of formatting and presentation across wiki articles:

• WARFRAME Wiki:Styling Guide
• WARFRAME Wiki:Article Policy
• WARFRAME Wiki:Media Policy
• Category:Styling - Category for article templates to copy when making a new page

Wikitext Markup[]

• wikipedia:Help:Wikitext
• wikipedia:Help:Wiki markup
• community:Help:Wikitext Wiki Markup
• wikipedia:Help:Template
• wikipedia:Help:Cheatsheet - Wikitext syntax cheatsheet reference
• wikipedia:Wikipedia:Extended image syntax
• community:Category:Help - List of Fandom 'manual' articles on Community Central Wiki
• community:Help:Infoboxes - Infobox guide
• https://portability.fandom.com/wiki/ - Portability Hub Fandom Wiki
• https://workingwithmediawiki.com/book/ - Working with MediaWiki by Yaron Koren
• mw:Help:Formatting
• Special:ExpandTemplates - Sandbox page for testing wikitext and templates

Lua Module Development[]

• Lua Reference Manual for Scribunto extension that Fandom wikis use
• Lua Reference Manual on Fandom Developers Wiki
• Lua Glossary on Fandom Developers Wiki
• https://dev.fandom.com/wiki/Global_Lua_Modules - Global Lua Modules on Fandom wikis
• https://www.yamaha.com/products/en/network/techdocs/others/lua/syntax/
• https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Lua
• mw:Lua
• WARFRAME Wiki:Programming Standards
• WARFRAME Wiki:Development Guide
• WARFRAME Wiki:Updating Databases

JavaScript Script Development[]

• https://dev.fandom.com/wiki/JavaScript_Cookbook - Quick reference guide to commonly used functions and design patterns when developing JS scripts on Fandom wikis
• https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/js/#!/api/mw.Api - Official documentation on MediaWiki Action API
• mw:API:Main page - MediaWiki Action API overview
• https://dev.fandom.com/wiki/Preact - JS library for building interactive UI (i.e. React for Fandom wiki scripts)
• mw:Vue.js - Vue.js will be the future JS framework available to be used within MediaWiki
• https://dev.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_JavaScript_enhancements - List of importable JS libraries for Fandom users through MediaWiki:ImportJS or importArticles() on user's /common.js subpage (see https://dev.fandom.com/wiki/Installation#javascript)

Information Sourcing[]

• WARFRAME Wiki:Research
• Public Export, public manifest
• https://forums.warframe.com/ - Official Warframe Forums
• https://twitter.com/PlayWarframe - Official Warframe Twitter
• https://n8k6e2y6.ssl.hwcdn.net/repos/hnfvc0o3jnfvc873njb03enrf56.html - Official Drop Table repository (Redirect)
• https://www.warframe.com/community/fankit - Official WARFRAME fansite assets (for images and audio from the game)
• https://digitalextremes.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/218290327-Quest-Tips-Minimal-Spoilers - Quest tips from WARFRAME support (minimal spoilers)
• https://digitalextremes.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/sections/203788237-Core-Mechanics - Core Mechanics articles from WARFRAME support
• Warframe Companion - a companion app for WARFRAME, available on iOS and Android
• https://www.warframe.com/steamworkshop/help/ - Official TennoGen handbook (for producing skins and models for TennoGen)
• https://www.warframe.com/2020stats - 2020 WARFRAME Stats
  • https://n9e5v4d8.ssl.hwcdn.net/repos/WarframeUsageData2020.json - JSON format
• https://www.warframe.com/2021stats - 2021 WARFRAME Stats
  • https://n9e5v4d8.ssl.hwcdn.net/repos/WarframeUsageData2021.json - JSON format

Content Localization[]

• WARFRAME Wiki:Localization Guide

Web Accessibility[]

• https://www.w3.org/WAI/fundamentals/accessibility-intro/
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/Understanding_WCAG/Perceivable/Color_contrast
• mw:Accessibility guide for developers
• wikipedia:Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility

Moderation and Maintenance[]

• WARFRAME Wiki:Banning Policy
• WARFRAME Wiki:Protected page
• WARFRAME Wiki:Talk Page and Comment Policy
• mw:Help:Log - MediaWiki logs to monitor wiki activity
• Special:SpecialPages - Link repository for maintenance pages
• mw:Manual:Block and unblock - (Un)blocking users
• mw:Manual:Reverts - Edit reverts to a previous version
• mw:Manual:Purge - Purging server-side cache of a page to ensure latest revision of page shows up for readers
• mw:Help:Patrolled edits - Marking pages as "patrolled" for a level of content moderation
• mw:Extension:AbuseFilter - Tool for taking automated action (e.g. blocks) against users who meet certain behavioral criteria
• community:Help:Analytics dashboard

Bots and Automation[]

• wikipedia:Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser - AutoWikiBrowser tool for edit automation
• mw:Manual:Pywikibot - Python scripts for edit automation
• mw:Manual:Bots

Trust and Safety[]

Trust and Safety refers to a team that is involved with protecting users from harmful content and actions. They are typically involved in enforcing Fandom's content policies, ensure compliance with data protection/privacy laws, conduct investigations on safety violations by reported individuals, and auditing custom JS scripts before approval.

• community:Community Central:Staff

Other Meta Wiki Articles[]