Factorio:Wiki rules

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How to contribute?

This wiki is the work of a team. 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, it isn't deleted :)

But eventually it will be changed or removed by others.

Don't be afraid: There is nothing, which you can really 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. For example: an entity can be mined, an item can be picked up. Removing them means something different! 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

Do's:

• make pictures at day! Turn on daylight! Use night or dawn only, if needed to explain something.
• use god mode! Lua/Player#controllertype. You can go to every place and don't stand in the way.
• you can slowdown the game to find the right moment for the picture.
• you can use also the Lua/Game#peacefulmode, to be not disturbed by the natives.
• you can stop the game in the right moment using SHIFT-SPACE key. That blends also the grid in.
• learn how to use the Debug mode to add relevant information into this pic.
• go into the highest zoom level you possibly can.

Dont's

• don't make pics of ultra-complicated stuff! Add only as much elements, which are needed to understand, how that might work.
• don't make just a screenshot. Try to remove all unneeded informations from the pic.
• try not to make a photo with the character, except it should show something, facing to it.

See http://www.factorioforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2472 for more.

Optimizing the picture before upload

• cut as much as possible/nice.
• 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

Gifcam