How the wiki works

The wiki is the community's free-form encyclopedia — guides, lore, strategy and reference, written and maintained by players. Here is how to read, write and source it.

What is the wiki?

It is a collaborative, multilingual set of articles organised by game and category. Anyone can read it; signed-in members with edit rights can improve it. It complements the structured Knowledge Base with explanatory, free-form writing.

Creating and editing pages

Use the create button on a scope or category to start a page, or the edit button on any article. A rich editor handles formatting, links, images and tables; your changes are versioned, so the history is kept and edits can be compared or reverted.

Citing sources

Back claims with sources. The editor’s Cite button — or typing [^ followed by the address — marks the claim with a small number and lists that source once at the foot of the article, however many times you cite it. You never write the numbers or the list yourself: both are rebuilt each time the page is shown, so a source added higher up renumbers the rest correctly. Citing something already on the page takes one click and keeps it to a single entry.

Wrote the article somewhere else? Paste it in whole. If its sources use one of the notations below — MediaWiki’s <ref> tags, as used on Wikipedia, or numbered footnotes with a list at the end — the editor offers to convert them. Nothing changes until you accept: the paste stays exactly as it arrived, and one undo puts it back. Links in brackets can also be converted, but that is a guess about your sentences rather than a notation, so it sits behind its own separate button.

  • <ref> … </ref>
  • [^1]

Pulling in Knowledge Base data

Facts that live in the Knowledge Base — a creature's stats, an artifact's cost — should not be retyped by hand. Reference them inline, drop in a full infobox, or embed a single live property value using these markers in the editor; only verified entries embed, and the values update automatically when the entry changes:

  • {{ … }}
  • (( … ))
  • {# … }

Knowledge Base — how it works

How you can help

Tips

Write for a reader new to the topic, link generously between articles, cite your sources, and prefer embedding Knowledge Base data over copying numbers so the wiki stays accurate as the data evolves.