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*Correcting typos
*Correcting typos
*Creating new articles where something is missing entirely
*Creating new articles where something is missing entirely
*Updating [[Category:Potentially_Outdated|outdated information]] as new versions of the game are released.
*Updating [[:Category:Potentially_Outdated|outdated information]] as new versions of the game are released.


Every correction, big or small, is a step towards a better wiki, and greatly appreciated!
Every correction, big or small, is a step towards a better wiki, and greatly appreciated!

Revision as of 14:54, 9 April 2021

Hello and welcome to editing the official Barotrauma wiki! If you’d like to suggest edits to this page, please leave a comment in the page discussion or get in touch with the wiki actives directly on the official Discord – they can also offer information that might be missing here, so don’t hesitate to talk to them.

Getting started

Once you have created an account, you are able to edit almost everything on this wiki. If you decide to make huge-scale changes to existing content, other editors would appreciate a heads-up, but smaller operations are free to be carried out at will. These include things like...

  • Supplementing missing information in existing articles
  • Expanding on stub articles
  • Correcting typos
  • Creating new articles where something is missing entirely
  • Updating outdated information as new versions of the game are released.

Every correction, big or small, is a step towards a better wiki, and greatly appreciated!

As you edit the wiki, please be extra careful with a few things in particular:

  • Reliability. Is the information you’re adding correct and objective? We’ll list our preferred sources further down.
  • Language and style. Is the information you’re adding presented in a way that another Barotrauma player can be expected to understand it without trouble? Are you writing good, neat English? It’s not an academic writing contest, but please write with care.
  • Please remember to be kind and respectful. Most of the content here is provided by players – volunteers like you. If you disagree with something, please be kind in pointing it out. If you wish to change something someone else has done, please do so while respecting the work the other person has put in. Please do not war or deliberately hurt this wiki, the old wiki, or your fellow editors.

Editing and Creating Content

Page structure

Wikitext may look daunting at first, so here are a few of the most common things you should recognize and use to make our wiki pages nice to read.

Headers

== Headers == are used to organize a page visually and generate the table of contents at the top of the page. 1 to 5 equal signs "=" can be used to create different headers:

=Very Big Header=
==Big Header==
===medium header===
====small header====
=====very small header=====


To make your header a proper header, it must be the only thing on that line, as in the examples above.

Table of contents

The size of the headers is used to determine subsections in the table of contents. For example, if you had the following:

=Section=
==Subsection==
===Subsection 2===
==Subsection 3==

The table of contents would be as follows:

1 Section
    1.1 Subsection
        1.1.1 Subsection 2
    1.2 Subsection 3

To place the table of contents in the page, simply write __TOC__ under the summary at the top of the page.

Hyperlinks

[[Hyperlinks]] are used to link to another page on this wiki. Simply make sure said page exists and type its name carefully to link to it:

[[Crawler]]
[[Any Page Name Case Sensitive]]
[[pagename|alternative text]]

Please use hyperlinks generously (but not excessively – first mention is usually enough. Common sense!) to help readers make full use of the wiki!