Fortnite Wiki

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The following guidelines aim to establish a standard for the editing side of our wiki and provide tips for users to improve their edits and contributions.

Put Effort Into Your Edits

We encourage editors to put as much effort into their edits as possible. A lack of attention and/or care during editing increases the likelihood of inconsistencies and errors, resulting in multiple edits being required to achieve something which could have been done in one.

The following are examples of ways you can maximise your effort in edits:

  • Make pages from scratch; avoid copy-pasting pages when creating them - doing so can easily result in errors, such as a name of another cosmetic being used in a different cosmetic's introduction.
  • Keep up-to-date with our latest formats; make sure the formats you add to pages are the latest versions - you can check this by watching announcements and looking at some of our staff's edits. This helps keep everyone on the same page and reduce the need for messages and corrections in edits.
  • When revamping a page, revamp all of it; avoid revamping only parts of a page on an outdated format - not revamping all of it can make it harder for other editors to spot what needs extra work, resulting in half up-to-date pages.

However, perfection is not required - all we ask is that you give your best effort and contribute to the improvement of the wiki as a whole. While we do aim for quality, it is still perfectly okay to make mistakes or perform minor edits. As long as you are committed, you are a valued editor.

Use Official Fortnite Terms

This wiki aims to be professional and as such we use official in-game terminology rather than the community's terminology. For instance, instead of terms such as "Skins", we use "Outfits". Doing so aligns ourselves with Fortnite's official language and provides consistency and professionalism to the wiki.

Source Editor

Source Editor - Editing Tips and Guidelines - Fortnite

An example of the Source Editor

Using the Source Editor instead of the Visual Editor is a great way to improve your edits because it allows for precision, efficiency and advanced formatting.

Source Editing requires some knowledge of wikitext to master it. For a complete guide, see this help page.

Categorisation

Categories are a way that viewers can find pages similar to another page. Very specific categories such as Category:Skeletal Outfits or Category:Robotic Outfits are unnecessary. We only need basic categories that will narrow down to a large number of pages (such as Category:Outfits).

Additionally, broad categories such as the "Battle Royale" Category should not be added to individual pages, unless the page's topic is a gateway to a large amount of pages, such as Lore (Battle Royale). As such, a cosmetic such as Sea Wolf should not belong to such a category.

Files

When it comes to uploading images, it's very important to choose a descriptive file name. This makes it easier to find images on the wiki. File names such as "Download.jpg" or "3013652E-A5F1-4E05-9BF8-6A0C6E7FC9AF.png" make it very hard to understand what the file shows. It could be just the file you need, but with a name like this you would never be able to find it just by using the search bar.

To keep things as easy as possible, we're using a specific naming scheme on the wiki:
[name of the thing on the image] - [type] - Fortnite.[filetype]

Here are some examples:

This naming scheme also makes it easier to use images on pages. For example, when adding multiple outfit images to a page, you could simply copypaste the " - Outfit - Fortnite.png" part and just change the name of the outfit at the beginning for each image. However, you must remember that wikitext is case and white-space sensitive, so using something like " - outfit - fortnite.png" wouldn't work.

Another way to make files easier to find is by adding them to categories as well. File categorisation should be kept as minimalistic as possible - one category is usually enough. For example, images of outfits should be added to Category:Images - Outfits.
You can find all available image categories under Category:Images.


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