User:Neosteamwiki

=Tips for a successful wiki=


 * Don't get bent out of shape if someone edits your contribution; if you feel strongly about it then explain it on the page's Discussion section
 * Players want useful data and information, not marketing fluff or cut and paste info from another website
 * You can't make mistakes on a wiki, just edit or rollback changes
 * 99% of the content is going to be contributed by less than 1% of the users
 * Build it and they will view it
 * Users love making minor corrections (transposed letters and numbers, spelling mistakes)
 * Don't lock down pages, even the front page, as it discourages potential contributors
 * Spammers are annoying and sometimes persistent, but easily driven away with enough patience (and IP blocks ;P)
 * Players want to know about skills and quests, sometimes item lists and NPC locations, rarely about common monsters
 * Keep pages simple so anybody can edit them without having to know a lot of wiki markup or CSS
 * Text is always better than pictures since text drives traffic and search result placement; pictures do not
 * Start simple and build it up over time
 * No need to go into insane detail like one page per item/skill/monster/NPC; logically group content