Contributor Central

Come and See the Wonder!
Welcome, hero, to the offices of the scribes! I, Ronelyn, have created this page so we can have a place to post tutorials, scratch pages for experiments, "Did you know" articles for contributors and editors, and also as a potential center for discussion. Feel free to add your own sections and links, to create your own subpages or categories, or anything else. Wikis are, by definition, living docs. Scarred Lands fans own this wiki. If you're a fan, it belongs to you as much as any of us. DIg in!

Stuff/Pages We Need

 * Spell Source Index  - Table of all Scarred Lands spells, indicating where to find each one (book; page if possible). Start with 5E, and include spell levels. Should probably have one for magic items, feats, backgrounds, rituals, etc. as well, but one thing at a time. :)
 * Pronunciation guides - Doesn't need to be its own page, but it'd be good to have pronunciation guides to various names.
 * Since some names have as many as three "official" pronunciations, it might be nice to source each one in reverse chronological order?
 * Alternately, I've said that your pronunciation's based on whether you have a Ledean, Veshian, or Shelzari accent. :)
 * Pluralization rules - An asaatth wears asaatthi clothing among other asaatthi. Show singular, adjectival, and plural forms for each race/ethnicity/locality. If possible, throw in possessives too.
 * Teleport circles - Known/canonical ones, and whether they're public. If the knowledge is closely held, who holds it? E.G. Lokil has a public circle whose glyphs are widely circulated, but a few archmages have their own private circles, and there may well be a few hidden in the labyrinth under the city.

Useful Tools

 * Mediawiki Help - Mediawiki is pretty awesome, but not always obvious. Especially when you get into the nitty-gritty of powerful features like templates and infoboxes.
 * The Insights special page - A Mediawiki feature, this page is like the wiki's own To-Do list. It finds things that could use fixing (pages with no links, links without a page behind them, pages with no categories pointing to them) and highlights them. Looking for quick, obvious ways to help this wiki? This is a great starting point. Some fixes take less than a minute to do, like creating a stub page for a city that says "This is the capital of Snern" and adding it to the Cities category.
 * The wiki's Sandbox page - A page specifically set aside for you to mess with. You can create your own if you're trying something especially destructive, but this is a safe place to try things out or see how things work. Again, you own this wiki as much as anyone.
 * The How-To category - For wiki pages that document any process specific to this wiki that you found tricky to figure out or are proud of understanding. Feel free to make How-To pages!
 * WikiTableator - Tables are super-handy in a wiki, but sometimes a pain to edit. Fran Stewart wrote a tool in Excel VBA that can help you manage complex tables with less hair-pulling. Feel free to experiment with it!