FFXI:Community Portal

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Community Portal


Help out

FFXIclopedia is the largest Final Fantasy XI encyclopedia known to exist. However, many articles are incomplete or otherwise need attention.
There are many things to do to help out.

Things to do

Fix-up projects

Languages


Resources, Policies and Guidelines

FFXIclopedia has a number of different resources and policies. Here are some of the more helpful and important ones.

Resources

FFXIclopedia has many resources which can be utilized to make your time here helpful and productive.

Help / New User Info

About FFXIclopedia
Administrators
FFXIclopedia F.A.Q.
Mentors
New Members Guide by Birgitte
Patrollers
Special Pages

Editing

Editing Guide
Editing Tips
List of categories
List of images
List of templates

Community information
IRC Chatroom

CGI

Client

Policies and guidelines

FFXIclopedia has many established policies, guidelines, conventions, and traditions. This is a very brief sampling of some of the most important ones. Policies and guidelines apply both to articles and how to work with fellow editors.

Editing Policies

Bot Policy
Drop Rate Policy
Image Policy
Link Policy
Naming Conventions
Prohibited Articles
Quiz Policy
Software Limitations
Userbox Policy

Community Policies

Appropriate Behavior
Inappropriate Behavior
Content Control & Article Ownership
User Pages
User Signatures
What FFXIclopedia is not

Administrator Related

Administrators
Article Protection
Guide to Deletion
Vandal Reports

Legal Policies

Copyrights
General Disclaimer
Privacy Policy

Note from the Lead Editor

Annual traditions are nice. So, with the end of 2008 before us it is again time for a wiki year-in-review. It was a year of significant improvements to the wiki. Of note were major overhauls of zones and bestiary family pages. These changes enabled us to add a lot of information without adding a lot of unnecessary space. We also overhauled the main page with new tabs. Mediawiki provides some huge benefits (such as the wiki aspects), but can be difficult to work with when trying to perform some of the more advanced functions (java functions). We're continuing to work on optimizing pages and layouts and are hoping to be able to make some nice overhauls in 2009.

It was a year for growth as well - albeit different than last year. While the number of page views, visits and unique users were slightly lower than 2007 (-10%), the average time on the site more than doubled, from an average of just over 13 minutes in 2007 to more than 28 minutes in 2008 (+115% - and no this was not due to a Fan Fest Live Blog spike). Article count increased (+30%), which is always nice, but admittedly comes with the territory of a wiki based on an MMO. Database size (words) grew (+46%). Average size of an article also grew, a key metric often overlooked. In short it means our pages have substance to them. A wiki with 20,000 pages listing nothing more than the item name is not very helpful. A wiki where each of those pages tells you everything you ever wanted to know about that item - and more - is what distinguishes a wiki from another. FFXIclopedia excels at this task. Also important is that the number of editors continues to increase. This is what keeps FFXIclopedia strong. Every edit counts - whether it be one or a hundred. But to our hundreds of editors out there - thank you! And for those who have not yet taken the plunge into wiki editing - its easy - now is a great time to start and help out this resource we all rely upon so much.

FFXIclopedia was started four years ago now and has aged pretty well. We've kept up with content put out by Square Enix, managed to introduce new content on the wiki and scale with the size of the wiki and users. We have a few new things planned for 2009 if all goes well - but what's comforting is that even if we just continue to plow ahead, we'll still have the best FFXI website out there. --User:Gahoo/Sig 19:11, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

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