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GamePedia FAQ

What is GamePedia?Top

GamePedia, an online encyclopedia open to all players, aims to present a game-oriented knowledge base consisting of all game related resources, including games and game companies.

GamePedia allows players to share with others their special gaming experience and what they know about games. Through GamePedia, players can also search for information they need freely. We’re aiming to create a powerful game dictionary through the players’ joint efforts and assistance.

Why GamePedia is Established?Top

GamePedia offers players a game-oriented knowledge base which is different from other knowledge bases on the internet. Due to its special categorization approaches, GamePedia is capable of providing players more detailed game related resources.

Meanwhile, GamePedia will effectively combine with other resources on the site to make players better understand their favorite games when they download games, browse game images or view game zones on MMOsite.

What is Entry?Top

Entry is the basic unit of the content featured in GamePedia. Each entry has a particular theme which can either be a game name, a game company name or a combination (e.g. 2Moons, Astera Online).

What is Tag?Top

In online computer systems terminology, a tag is a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information (such as an internet bookmark, digital image, or computer file). This kind of metadata helps describe an item and allows it to be found again by browsing or searching. Tags are chosen informally and personally by the item's creator or by its viewer, depending on the system.

A suitable tag wil make the entry found easier;

What is Paragraph Title?Top

Paragraph title, similar to the paragraph title in an article, is used to sort and partition the various aspects of entry content.

Paragraph title, which works in the same way as the paragraph title in an article, is an excellent tool for editors to organize, sort and partition the various aspects of entry content.

The catalog related to the entry with paragraph titles will be automatically displayed when the entry is viewed, so that visitors can freely index all the paragraph titles. From the catalog, visitors can get information about all the aspects of the entry. Click one of the paragraph titles to quickly locate the corresponding content and check it.

What is Catalog?Top

Catalog is used to index the paragraph titles of an entry. You can click one of the titles to reach the corresponding paragraph.
For example:

What is Entry Link?Top

Entry link refers to the link directing to another entry on GamePedia. It is to help visitors better understand the entry content and further expand their reading, as well as strength the connection between entries.

What is Reference Material?Top

Reference material refers to those reliable and verifiable material quoted in the entry, usually extracted from books, magazines, online resources, etc.

What is Relevant Entry?Top

Relevant entry is the entry closely and horizontally related to the current entry. It can help visitors better get through the entry, as well as better understand the information related to the entry.

What is Edit Conflict?Top

Edit Conflict refers to the special phenomenon that different editors edit the same version but the valid and valuable data cannot be compatible, making some of the submitted versions unable to be approved. That may be because the submission time between two versions is too close, or the submission process has not completed when the version is being updated. It may even be caused due to the reason different people hold different views.

How to Create an Entry?Top

1. In the search area located on the homepage of MMOsite Answer:

See "input entry or tag here." Enter an entry title (e.g. 2Moons) in the box, and then click the "Create/Enter" button.

If the entry has already been created, the page will jump to the entry displaying page. You can edit this entry.

If the entry has not been created, the page will jump to the entry creation page. You can create the entry.

2. You can enter the entry title in the search bar at the top of each page.

3. Or directly access the entry creation page via the following portals on GamePedia homepage:

  
These two portals will direct you to the entry creation page:
http://answer.mmosite.com/dic/?controller=Entry&action=Get

How to Edit an Entry?Top

1. If the entry to be created hasn’t been created, you’ll get the entry creation page.

Edit content:
You can define, explain and describe the entry as completely as possible according to your knowledge and materials found in books /magazines/online resources. You can also take advantage of the function buttons in the edit toolbox.

You can set the entry content to be bold or italic, or set a sentence as a link or a paragraph title. You can also insert special symbols or images into the content. Currently, no more than 100,000 characters are allowed in the entry content.

Enter tag:
When the entry is edited successfully, you can set reasonable tags for it, so as to attract more players to view the entry. You are allowed to enter a maximum of 8 tags with a "," between each tag.

Select category:
When tags are all entered, you have to select the category to which the entry corresponds:

Correct categorization will help bring more visitors to the corresponding entry.

Fill in reference materials:
If you have quoted materials from books, online resources or other articles in your entry content, please make sure to specify their sources in the reference material column. Any intellectual property rights infringements found in your entry content shall be borne by you. And the reference material should consist of no more than 1,000 characters.

Having filled in all the information, you can just click the "Submit" button. And after refreshing, the page will jump to the page displaying the corresponding entry content.

2. If the entry you entered has been created, the page will jump to the entry displaying page.

For example, if 2Moons is entered, the page will jump to http://answer.mmosite.com/dic/entry/0/0/2.shtml, where you can edit the entry:

Click the "Edit entry" button at the top right, and the page will jump to the entry edit page.

In the paragraph edit page, you have to enter the modification reasons after modifying the content. Please present the reasons completely and accurately, so as to accelerate the administrator’s review progress, as well as make it convenient for the entry creator or other editors like you to compare the old and new versions.

You can also edit a particular paragraph:
Click the "Edit this paragraph" button at the top right of each paragraph, for example:

If someone is editing this paragraph or this entry like you at the same time, you’ll be unable to edit it; if no one else is doing so at the same time, the page will jump to the paragraph edit page.

In the paragraph edit page, you have to enter the modification reasons after modifying the content. Please try to present the reasons completely and accurately lest the administrator delete your modified version.

Modify TagTop

You can click to edit the whole entry by modifying the related tags or adding new tags. In other words, you can complete the tag information in the entry edit page.

Modify CategoryTop

If you find problems with the entry’s category or you think another category is more suitable for the entry, you can just modify the category in the entry edit page:

Submit EntryTop

The final step is to click the "Submit" button located at the bottom of the page. Congratulations, you have submitted the edited entry successfully!

How to Search for an Entry Top

At the top of GamePedia, you can see the search column:

You can enter the entry title to search for the entry accurately; or you can enter special words to search for relevant entries via tags.

How to Set Entry Link?Top

1. When you create/edit an entry, you can click on the "Set as link" button in the edit box to connect the entry with other entries.

For example, you can set the entries like "MMORPG" and "Azure Knights" featured in the entry "2Moons" as links. And when the contents of such entries are approved, visitor can then click the related links to access the corresponding pages (if such entries haven’t been created, GamePedia will automatically identify them after they are created by others).

2. You can reasonably add links of the entries that you’ve edited /viewed or that haven’t been created into the entry content. As long as the links you add are reasonable, visitors will continue to view other relevant entries as directed by the links after finishing the current entry, so as to gain more related information.

How to Set Paragraph Title?Top

The entry catalog is generated automatically, so you don’t need to edit or add it.

If an entry has 4 or more paragraph titles, the catalog will be automatically displayed when the entry is previewed or viewed, allowing visitors to index all the paragraph titles of the entry; if the entry has 3 or less paragraph titles, there will be no catalog displayed.

In addition, each paragraph title of the entry is independent, so there is no subcatalog or subtitle etc.

How to Set Relevant Entry?Top

Relevant entry can strengthen the connection between entries.

We can see the "Relevant entry" tag on the entry displaying page: http://answer.mmosite.com/dic/entry/0/0/2.shtml

 

Click "Perfect relevant entry" to jump to the relevant entry edit page:

Enter the relevant entry title, and click the "Submit" button.
Note: The entered entry should be the one that has been created, or it cannot be added.

How to Upload Pictures for an Entry?Top

Uploading reasonable pictures for an entry can improve the entry quality, as well as attract more visitors.

Click the icon  on the right of the edit box:  to bring up the following window:

Click the "Browse" button to select a picture on your PC (you should download the picture to your PC first)
There are 3 ways to display the picture, i.e. "Left align", "Right align" and "Single line".

How to Find your Created Entries?Top

You can enter the User Center in Answer to find all the entries you’ve created.

Login and click the "My Answer" button at the top.

Or you can directly enter the entry title in the search column.

What is High Quality Entry?Top

High quality entry refers to the exceptionally excellent entry in GamePedia. It offers visitors abundant professional information, wonderful typesetting and appropriate explanation, making it easy for visitors to read.

A high quality entry has to fulfill the three requirements listed below:

1. Entry content: accurate, objective and complete
2. Structure: reasonable, standard and with good readability
3. Related settings: the expanded information should be arranged in a relatively complete manner (including but not limited to the content settings of "picture", "link", "category", "reference material" and "relevant entry")

What is Outstanding Contributor?Top

Outstanding contributor refers to the one who edits an entry and makes it greatly improved in quality (e.g. the entry content gets much more complete, or the typesetting is made far better than that of the last version). Each outstanding contributors will be rewarded 20 points.

There are 2 ways to become an outstanding contributor:
1. Automatically: If you add more than 5,000 characters into an entry one time, you will be automatically set as the outstanding contributor.
2. Manually: If you are approved by the administrator after being recommended as the outstanding contributor by others, you’ll be set as the outstanding contributor.

What Kind of Entries will be Deleted?Top

The entry title should be accurate and concise, as well as easy to understand. Try to describe a subject without any ambiguity.

1. The entry title should not be meaningless.
The entry title should correspond to special meanings. Any kind of spam entry (e.g. “sdfsd”, “kkk”) will be deleted.

2. The entry title should be a narrative term without any qualifiers. To express the entry title in a phrase/sentence (e.g. “the new version of Magic World Online”, “Is Archlord worth playing?”) is not allowed.

3. The entry title should not contain any spelling errors or special characters like #, %,&.

Point Rules (What is point?)Top

1. You’ll be rewarded 4 points for each entry you create (you are only allowed to gain a maximum of 40 points each day).
2. You’ll be rewarded 2 points for each entry you edit (you are only allowed to gain a maximum of 30 points each day).
3. The one who is elected as the outstanding contributor of a special version will be rewarded 20 points.
4. The one whose version is deleted due to violating any of the rules will be deducted 5/10/15/30 points depending on the seriousness of the circumstances.

Score Rules (What is score?)Top

1. You’ll be rewarded 4 scores for each entry you create (you are only allowed to gain a maximum of 40 scores each day).
2. You’ll be rewarded 2 scores for each entry you edit (you are only allowed to gain a maximum of 30 scores each day).
3. The one who is elected as the outstanding contributor of a special version will be rewarded 20 scores.
4. The one whose version is deleted due to violating any of the rules will be deducted 5/10/15/30 scores depending on the seriousness of the circumstances.

Terms of UseTop

Welcome to Gamepedia. Before you start a new entry that is to be hosted by Gamepedia, or edit an existing one, you must agree to the terms below. These terms may be changed over time without notice to you. Important changes will be announced on the main page or on the Gamepedia mailing list. You agree to be bound by any changes to this page (which is a protected page and not publicly editable).

If you do not accept and abide by this agreement, you may not use Gamepedia. If you do not wish to follow Gamepedia policies, you may not edit Gamepedia entries

ContentsTop

1 Description of service 2 Gamepedia content 3 Use of Gamepedia 4 Access to Gamepedia 5 Advertising 6 Collection of personal information 7 Changes to Gamepedia 8 Trademarks

9 Legal action 10 Disclaimer of warranties 11 Severability 12 Gamepedia Copyrights 13 GNU Free Documentation License 14 Image Guidelines 15 Gamepedia Disclaimer

Description of serviceTop

MMOsite hosts Gamepedia. MMOsite currently provides free, advertising-supported, Gamepedia entries for online communities to edit. Gamepedia’s content is made freely accessible for informational or entertainment purposes to anyone with a connection to the World Wide Web.

Gamepedia ContentTop

MMOsite is a hosting provider, and takes no responsibility for the content uploaded by third parties. MMOsite's designated agent will act to remove copyright violations in a timely manner following the receipt of a DMCA takedown request.

MMOsite, and Gamepedia are provided "as is". MMOsite has no responsibility for lack of availability of any Gamepedia entries or of any particular content. You should be aware that Gamepedia entries are editable by the public, and, as such, may contain inappropriate content at any time.

Any content you upload or post to Gamepedia must be compatible with the relevant license, not violate another person's intellectual property or infringe on any copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, or other proprietary rights. No content shall be added which violates any applicable law, including local, state, national, and international laws.

No content that is tortuous, threatening, harmful, hateful, unlawful, libelous, defamatory, harassing, abusive, fraudulent, vulgar, obscene, contains viruses, or is otherwise objectionable or potentially damaging, as reasonably determined by MMOsite shall be added to Gamepedia. You shall not create pornography and hate sites at Gamepedia. However, please be aware that Gamepedia may still contain content of an adult nature, or content that you may find offensive.

Any content on Gamepedia is the responsibility of the person who uploaded it or added it to a Gamepedia page. MMOsite does not control the content and does not approve the content before it is published. Although MMOsite is not obliged to do so, MMOsite, or its designees, has the right to remove any content for any reason, including but not limited to a violation of these terms of use.

Use of GamepediaTop

Use of Gamepedia is at your own risk.

Users of this service shall not act in a way which would be harmful to minors. Users of this service shall not impersonate any other person or entity.

Users shall not harass other users or collect or publish personal information about them.

MMOsite may terminate your use of Gamepedia, and administrators within Gamepedia may terminate your ability to edit Gamepedia entries, for any reason and at any time.

Access to GamepediaTop

MMOsite reserves the right to refuse access to Gamepedia, or to refuse the creation of a Gamepedia entry, to any user, for any reason.

MMOsite, or Gamepedia, may be discontinued at any time and without any liability to any user.

Any Gamepedia entry may be closed, either to editing or viewing at any time and without notice.

Commercial activities which have not been authorized by MMOsite are not permitted on Gamepedia. You may not sell or otherwise commercially exploit the use of this service, or access to the service, without prior consent of MMOsite.

AdvertisingTop

Any Gamepedia page may host advertisements, promotions, and/or a sponsored search box. Only official MMOsite advertisements may be shown. No user shall add advertising that has not been approved by MMOsite. No user shall remove the advertising, or sponsored search features from Gamepedia page in a way which means other users can not view the advertisements.

MMOsite takes no responsibility for the content of externally provided advertising.

The content of advertisements may be protected by copyrights, or other proprietary rights and laws, and should not be assumed to be available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License or any other license.

Collection of Personal InformationTop

User information is stored on servers in the United States. The only information that you need give is a username and password. The username does not need to be your real name. Therefore, any personal information you choose to give is not compulsory.

All details submitted in your Gamepedia entry request may be made public. The email address you provide in your request will be publicly viewable on the information page about your Gamepedia's mailing list. You may change this email after your request in your user preferences.

If you choose to enter a real name in your preferences, this will be publicly available. However, this field is optional, and there is no requirement for any user to give a real name.

Information from our server logs may be stored and used to gather aggregate data about users, and used to determine whether the identity of one or more users is the same in cases of abuse. This data includes your IP address, and details about your browser.

Edits by users who are not logged in will show the user's IP address in the page history of the article they edited, and also in other places on the site, including watchlists and recent changes, and in any external feeds made of such pages.

Changes to Gamepedia EntriesTop

MMOsite reserves the right to close, move, merge, or rename, a Gamepedia entry for any reason. MMOsite shall not be held liable for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of any Gamepedia entry, or of the service as a whole.

TrademarksTop

The name and the logo of Gamepedia are trademarks of MMOsite.

All content on Gamepedia is available under the terms of the GFDL or a Creative Commons license. All copyrights remain with their original holder, and MMOsite holds no copyright other than those of its own trademarks, and the edits submitted by MMOsite's staff.

Legal ActionTop

You agree to indemnify MMOsite, its owners, employees, and users from any liability relating to your use of Gamepedia, or its content.

All legal action will be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts in the state of California, USA.

Disclaimer of WarrantiesTop

Except in those jurisdictions which do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, MMOsite expressly disclaims all warranties of any kind and shall not be liable for any damages or losses whether directly or indirectly related to your use of this site or its content.

SeverabilityTop

If any term, condition or clause of these terms of use is found to be invalid then the remaining terms, conditions and clauses, shall remain valid.

Gamepedia CopyrightsTop

Except where otherwise specified, the text of all entries on Gamepedia is freely licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). Reusers of the content must retain it under the same license, ensuring it remains free.

GNU Free Documentation LicenseTop

The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) is a copyleft license for free content, designed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF).

The GFDL is a copyleft license, meaning the content can be copied, modified, and redistributed so long as the new version grants the same freedoms to others and acknowledges the authors of the Gamepedia page. Gamepedia content will, therefore, remain free forever and can be used by anybody subject to certain restrictions, most of which serve to ensure that freedom.

Image GuidelinesTop

GFDL or public domain images are h4ly preferred on Gamepedia. Copyright-violating images are subject to deletion. Copyright information must be added to the image description page of every uploaded image.

Gamepedia DisclaimerTop

Individual Gamepedia entry may have their own disclaimers. Please see the disclaimers link at the end of each page on the relevant Gamepedia entry.

MMOsite holds no responsibility for the content of external sites that are linked to from Gamepedia.

Gamepedia entries are created predominantly by volunteers, so we can make no guarantee of validity of the content. The wikis are not guaranteed to be complete, accurate or reliable.

Please be aware that Gamepedia may contain content you find objectionable. You use Gamepedia at your own risk.

All text on Gamepedia is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License unless otherwise stated.

Please be aware of the terms of use before using Gamepedia.