Editing Guidelines
| Important Find the bucket list at Editors: Bucket List to see work to be done. |
One of the goals of this wiki was to start over from a clean slate, as such, editors should follow these guidelines to ensure everything is in order:
- No inline css (style="......") unless absolutely necessary.
- No customizing the colors of tables, to make sure everything works with any future themeing.
- Keep images to a minimum, host space is limited:
- One set of Item Icons, following the style of World and Rise, for now (SVG Format).
- One set of weapon and armor renders for each: the entirety of 1st and 2nd generation and Frontier, Tri, P3rd, 3U, 4U, GU, World Iceborne and Rise Sunbreak.
- Only one render per monster unless the design changes drastically between generations (Rathalos, Diablos).
- Only one screenshot per Location (for now), unless the design changes drastically between generations.
- Monster Hunter Now-related pages should use World Iceborne renders and icons where possible.
- Any other spin-off game, such as Monster Hunter Online, Monster Hunter Explore, Felyne Diary or Monstie Drop are to be worked on once the core games have been fleshed out.
- Monster Hunter Frontier content must use official names when possible and clean, direct translations otherwise, do not marry the wiki to a single translation project.
Titles and Official Terms
Capitalization for game or media titles and Monster Hunters specific terms should match used in official sources.
Game Titles should be written out in full unless otherwise specified to be shorthand. If shorthand is required, the conventions are as follows:
- Monster Hunter = MH1
- Monster Hunter G = MHG
- Monster Hunter Portable = MHP
- Monster Hunter 2 (Dos) = MH2
- Monster Hunter Portable 2nd = MHP2
- Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G = MHP2G
- Monster Hunter 3 (Tri) = MH3
- Monster Hunter Portable 3rd = MHP3
- Monster Hunter 3G = MH3G
- Monster Hunter 4 = MH4
- Monster Hunter 4G = MH4G
- Monster Hunter Generations X = MHX
- Monster Hunter XX = MHXX
- Monster Hunter: World = MHWorld
- Monster Hunter World: Iceborne = MHWI
- Monster Hunter Rise = MHRise
- Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak = MHRS
- Monster Hunter: Wilds = MHWilds
File Nomenclatures
Following the same as the old wiki, files should be named in the following way:
[Game,Generation]-[Subject] [Render, Screenshot, Icon] [Number].[Extension]
- Game or Generation: Shorthand for each game (MH1, MHFU, MHP3), or broad generations (1stGen, 2ndGen, 3rdGen).
- Subject: Monster name, weapon class, locale name.
- Render, Screenshot or Icon: Depends on the image.
- Number: Starting from 000 (or 0000 in the case of Frontier).
- Extension: File extension.
Useful Templates
Notice and Warning
Each take one parameter, which is the message to convey.
Notice
| Notice This is the parameter. Notices are for letting other people know that an article is a work-in-progress or that it needs more information, for example. |
Warning
| Warning! Useful for spoiler warnings, content warnings, marking pages in severe need for a rewrite and such. |
Important
| Important A base for other types of notice, such as the one below. |
Translation
| Important Unofficial Translations This page contains unofficial translations of Japanese or Chinese names. |
Links
WeaponLink
Creates a link to a weapon with 2 parameters, a game acronym and the weapon's name. It should eventually be phased out with per-generation templates that can display an icon and rarity.
ItemLink
Creates a link to an item page with 2 parameters, a game acronym and the item's name. It should eventually be improved to accept 2 more parameters for an icon and its color.
Element
Creates a link to an element or ailment page with 3 parameters, a game acronym, the element's name and its value. It should eventually be improved to draw an icon.
Monster Pages
Weapon Pages
Weapon Tree Pages
Biome Pages
Locale Pages
Intro (The Forest and Hills is a locale introduced in Monster Hunter.)
Description
Detailed description of the locale, keep speculation to a minimum.
Game Data
Per-game lists of gatherable items, veggie elder trades and such.
See Also
Monsters associated with that locale, for example.
