Contributing: Now, easier than ever!

 

 

You have something for your fellow fraxy users? Want to clarify/update one of the help pages? Want to showcase your creation? There is good news for you! Adding something to our archives is EASY:

 

First, go to the page you want to add something to. Then, click "Edit Page".

 

Now comes the hard part: Entering the Wiki invite Key -

 

fraxy

 

Using this anyone can log in with contributor level access, allowing full ability to upload, edit, and revert pages.

 

Contribution Guidelines

ADDING ENEMIES

For enemies, include:

 

A LINK to a .JPEG image of your creation. (A 240x180 one if you put it on the Compendium)

 

An image doesn't need to be put on the table. Links will do. PLEASE adhere to this guideline, for 3 reasons.

 

1) A link takes much less space. Since the current wiki size is 1 Uber Gigabyte and rising, ensuring that our file sizes are small will allow us to get one hundred times as big as we are now.

 

2) Uniform formatting on the bosses page. If the list of bosses has a nice, slick, uniform look, it looks nicer.

 

3) The boss page is already MASSIVE, and even on a fast connection it takes a while for a whole list of images to load, because even now there are over 100 of them! This makes scrolling down the list a pain as all the tables expand as images load, causing you to lose your place on the scrollbar. Links will make it compact, faster to load, and that is better.

 

Example

 

Image

ACspite.fed

By JPteeto

This fierce drone carries heavy weaponry and attacks with blinding speed to compensate for it's limited armor capability.

 

Use the "insert table" button in the editor to make a:

4 column, 1 row, 800 pixel wide table.

 

This table is YOUR TABLE. Be kind to it, and take care of it. In the future, instead of adding a new table, add rows to your old table. Soon your table will be full of old friends.

 

In the first column, goes your image.

 

In the second column, use "Attach File" to upload the .FED file.

 

In the third column include the author's name.

Only post creations you yourself have made, or that you have the express permission of the author to post. Fraxy Compendium does not need trouble, or drama.

 

If you would like, add a brief description in the fourth column. Don't go too nuts: Try not to make the description taller than your image... unless you have to. I guess we'll understand. :P

 

The result, if you do it right, will look like what is right above this paragraph.

If you do it wrong, and just can't figure it out, and are tired of fighting the editor, well, someone else will likely come along and clean it up to look nice, so don't stress too bad.

 

Finally, we ask that you categorize the bosses you make into the correct categories, in order to make it easy for users to find something along the lines of what they think they'd be interested in.

 

Initially, We have only 2 categories:

Bosses and Drones

 

As the need arises, users can add more, and subdivide things even further, perhaps by theme, or user. We'll figure out what works best.

 

New Hotness: The User Index

 

 

Recently, in an effort to make boss-getting more managable, Fraxy Compendium now has a user index: A listing of our contributors, with a link to a page with all of their creations. Participating in this fashion is easy:

 

Step 1: Create a new page, using the "name" you are using as a Fraxy Author here.

Step 2: Go to the Fraxy Creations: User Index page and add a row to the table, filling in the applicable info. Put a link to "your" wiki-page in the username column.

Step 3: Go to your user page, and add your creations there as well.

 

Unfortunately, I don't know of any way to automatically "sync" the User Pages with the Boss and/or Drones page, so any creation updates will require extra legwork, if you have/keep a user page.

 

ADDING TRY FILES

STILL UNDER IMPORTANT UPDATING

Spectral1.zip  - By DrunkenGoomba

Spectral Assault - Episode 1

    The first in a series of Try Files from DrunkenGoomba.

    Difficulty: Easy

 

This is good: A screenshot, followed by the file, followed by your name, followed by a brief description of your Try File, and a brief description and a categorization of the difficulty rating.

 

The .Zip should contain:

In the .Zip file, the folder for your try file, containing all the files used by the try, as well as the .ftd file itself. That way, you can just:

Download the zip, and extract all its contents directly into the try folder.

 

ADDING VARIANT IMAGES

This is pretty simple. Upload the image, BUT, in a .zip file.

This is important because images used by the program have to have a certain name, and the wiki won't let us have multiple files with the same name. A Zip file containing the image lets us get around both limitations by letting us keep the image names unchanged, and then we can name the .zip whatever we want to, which will also help when organizing things.