Factorio:Wiki rules
This page is used for contributors into this wiki.
Get an account
Just follow the instruction.
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.