Factorio:Wiki rules
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How to contribute?
This wiki is the work of a team of some people. The wiki is created in an agile process. If someone asks something in the forum, it's a good idea to add it into the forum. No special knowledge is needed for that, just write and if it is ok, this information stars, otherwise it will be changed or removed by others. There is nothing, which you can break, because the wiki has a version history.
Basic
- Read the wiki pages.
- If you don't like something, change it.
- If you find typos, change it.
- If you find something is wrong described, make a prove, that it is wrong and change it.
Advanced
- Add missing information it at the right place.
This is in most cases easy, but sometimes could be really difficult. Ask for help, if you don't know.
- Split the information on big pages into subpages.
See for example the Railway network.
- If you find that a topic belongs to two pages, then don't copy the information into the two pages, but create a new page and link.
Best example for this is the Power production page.
- Take the right words.
Factorio has a set of words, which have a fixed meaning. Ask the factorio wiki, if you are unsure.
- A pic says more than 1000 words.
Make pictures, if possible. In some case use GIF-animations! See down.
Pictures
Making pictures out of the game
- don't make pictures at night! Turn on daylight!
- you can slowdown the game to find the right moment for the picture.
- you can use the Lua/Game#peacefulmode, to be not disturbed by the natives.
- learn how to use the Debug mode to add relevant information into this pic.
- don't make pics of ultra-complicated stuff! Add only as much elements, which are needed to understand, how that might work.
- try to remove all unneeded informations from the pic.
- try not to make a photo from yourself.
- go into the highest zoomlevel you possibly can.
Optimizing the picture before upload
- cut as much as possible.
- resolution should be normally not higher than 800x800 px.
- do not add textual information into the pics! Instead add numbers or letters in it and add the text on the wiki-page. Otherwise it isn't searchable information.
Making animations
Program?