Want to help out with Quests?

[aurik]

A quick guide on how to help add a quest to our database!

First, pick a quest to add. Typically you can just type it into the URL bar after the hostname.
EG, "Guest of Hauteur" can be found at
http://wiki.bluegartr.com/Guest_of_Hauteur

If you don't know what quest to add, here's a bunch of links that can give you ideas:
Master category: http://wiki.bluegartr.com/Category:Quests

Individual categories:
http://wiki.bluegartr.com/Categoryort_Bastok_Quests
http://wiki.bluegartr.com/Category:Metalworks_Quests
http://wiki.bluegartr.com/Category:Ba ... nes_Quests
http://wiki.bluegartr.com/Category:Ba ... ets_Quests
http://wiki.bluegartr.com/Categoryo ... ria_Quests
http://wiki.bluegartr.com/Category:No ... ria_Quests
http://wiki.bluegartr.com/Category:Ch ... lle_Quests
http://wiki.bluegartr.com/Category:So ... ria_Quests
http://wiki.bluegartr.com/Categoryo ... rst_Quests
http://wiki.bluegartr.com/Category:Wi ... lls_Quests
http://wiki.bluegartr.com/Category:Wi ... ods_Quests
http://wiki.bluegartr.com/Category:Wi ... ers_Quests
http://wiki.bluegartr.com/Category:He ... wer_Quests
(There are more, that should get you started though)

Red links are quests that are definitely missing.
Blue links which only appear in the table and not in the alphabetized list below are also missing, or are mistagged.

Second, add the quest using the template. The template can be found at http://wiki.bluegartr.com/Template:Quest_Header along with a detailed description of the parameters.

Simply copy-paste the template text into the page, filling in the appropriate values.

{{Quest Header
|Expansion=
|Start=
|Description=
|Fame=
|FLevel=
|Quest Reqs=
|Item Reqs=
|Level=
|Repeatable=
|Previous=
|Next=
|Title=
|Reward=
|Image=}}

Finally, you may want to add a walkthrough. Write up a walkthrough like this:

==Walkthrough==

*Start this quest by talking to somebody
*Go to Upper Jeuno and talk to somebody else
*Now claim Nidhogg and raffle the e.body for foodstamps
*Talking to [[Naja Salaheem]] for your reward.

If you don't have a walkthrough, mark the article as "needin lovin" by adding

{{Stub-Walkthrough}}

Finally, you should tag the quest with the region it starts in. Do this by adding

[[Category:Port Bastok Quests]]

except, replace the zone with the proper one. If there is no proper area category (for example, [[A Moral Manifest?]] which actually starts in [[Castle Oztroja]])) add it to [[Category:Other Area Quests]].

If you skip any parts (say, description, or reward, or whatever) you should also tag the article as a stub by putting

{{Stub}}

somewhere in the page. This will let other people know that there is still a bit of work left to be done before the quest page is "finished".

And you're done!

[Rehn]

Just tried my first few wiki edits, and I'm becoming more familiar. A question though, how do you add to the item's page info? For example, I'd like to add to the Joyeuse page that it drops from Charybdis (or are item pages still aren't allowed to be edited)? Thanks.

[Redflame]

in the zone page should we list the quests that started/activated there only or all the quests that involved in that area?

[aurik]

in the zone page should we list the quests that started/activated there only or all the quests that involved in that area?

Hmm, I think the latter within a reasonable degree (we don't need to know that every zone with tigers is part of the Tiger Hides quest, but the fact that only Meriphitaud has lizards dropping Twinstone Earrings is an important piece of information)

[Gwynplaine]

Yeah, I used some for instance the smn flag quest, but there's just too many possible zones and it was really redundant so I took them off.

Btw, how do we use that extremely hot auto-sorting list with the regular mobs list. Is there a different template to use? I noticed all the old quest/npc/zone etc. boxes had them automatically added. Is that a feature special to media-wikis?

Edit: mk I think i see. I'll just go back and redo areas with the instance template.

[Elesirdur]

For Artifact Quests, armor or weapons, please use the tag [[Cagetory:Artifact Quests]]