Otherwise, if it's an object that can be picked up or equipped, put it on the Hiveswap inventory if it's a set piece for interacting with, include it on the page for its associated location. For these, it's best to employ common sense if you could reasonably write a well-sized (and well-referenced!) article about the object, then you can probably go ahead and give it its own page. The rules for objects are less well-defined. Also, try to make location pages broad we don't need a page for every single room in Xefros' hive if Xefros' hive already has a whole page of its own. If you can visit somewhere and it can be named, you can probably make a page for it if not, we have list of Hiveswap locations. If the answers are no, but there's still information about them you think is worth noting down, they probably belong on the list of Hiveswap characters. When you spot a new character, two main things need to be considered: does the character have a name, and does the character have a speaking role? If the answer to both of these things is yes, then the character can probably have their own page. So what stuff gets its own page, and what gets added to existing pages? Though we're already familiar with many of Hiveswap: Act 2's new characters, there is undoubtedly much about the game still yet to be recorded on the MSPA Wiki. Introducing the new friend Which pages need to be added? If you're referencing something that stretches across multiple text boxes, just separate them with a slash, / like this.Ģ.
As long as the quote is from Hiveswap: Act 2, you don't need to change any of the rest of the code! But this template works for referencing all the other games, too: just check out the Template:Source page for more info.Įven if the part of the quote you're referencing is short, try to include everything inside the textbox, so wiki users can see the full context of what you're referencing.
November 25th, 2020.Īnd if the quote isn't about Xefros liking to eat frogs, all you need to do is change the part after the |quote = in the code to whichever quote you want to reference. If you just put the above code into the part of the article after you say Xefros loves to eat frogs, you'll get this at the end of the article: How do you know that? Because the game told you he did! But how can you make everyone believe you?! Why, you've got to prove it, with a direct quote from the game.
Say you're playing your new favourite game and you've just found out your friend Xefros Tritoh loves to eat frogs. What would be the point of an encyclopedia if you had to find everything yourself out in order to properly use it? Instead, since the release of the Friendsim and Pesterquest games, we've introduced a new way to keep the MSPA Wiki reliable: references. Sometimes an MSPA Wiki user doesn't have the time or the energy to boot up a new video game save state every time they want to confirm something The Wiki says. This is what the reference Keeping the MSPA wiki reliableīack when all we had to worry about was Homestuck and the occasional sleuth problem, keeping the MSPA Wiki reliable was a cinch if you want to find a page in the comic, it's easy enough to use 's built-in search feature, and the MSPA Wiki has plenty of tools to help you link to comic pages on the wiki and help your fellow users find the source of that intriguing little niblet of information you've just added to .īut things these days are more complicated. So to make that happen, we've put together a little list of things to keep in mind while you've got your gaming controller in one hand and your wiki editing controller in the other.ġ. And that's exciting! We're committed to being the most reliable and definitive source for everything regarding Homestuck and its related properties, and the best way we can continue to offer that is by having everyone chip in what we can.īut for that to work with the most effectiveness possible, we need all of our users to be on the same page.
With the arrival of Hiveswap: Act 2, it seems likely the MSPA Wiki is going to be a hive of swaptivity I mean activity for the next few days or weeks or months.