Wiki Bi-Weekly Issue 8

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Wiki Bi-Weekly Issue 8

Character Builds

As some of you may know, we have quite a few build articles in the wiki that cover a wide variety of playstyles. As you may also know however, writing a guide in the wiki format can be tricky and hard to figure out. To help all of you who want to write a guide but don't know how or where to start, we've now created a new help article specifically for that:

DiabloWiki.com - Help:Writing Build Guides (Diablo II) Help:Writing Build Guides (Diablo II)

This new help article assumes no previous knowledge of editing a wiki, so anyone can use it to add a guide. It starts out with explaining how to create the actual page and what to think about when naming it, followed by some basics formatting like creating headers and links in the wiki, since this can be more complicated than one might think. Following that is a more in-depth description of how to spruce up the guide with templates (wiki-term for tables and other things that have already been designed to be plugged into a page) so it looks nicer, and finishes off with some closing words of wisdom and the rules! Yes there are rules, mainly that one-line guides with bad grammar are not going to be kept around.

Kudos goes to Kickin_It for typing out the whole thing. So if you have an idea for a build, definitely read this new page and add your guide to our wiki.

Examples
Although no guide has yet been written by using this guide, here's a selection of guides that utilize the elements, and the spirit, of the build guide:

DiabloWiki.com - Concentrate Barbarian by Kickin It Concentrate Barbarian by Kickin It
DiabloWiki.com - Elementalist by lMarcusl Elementalist by lMarcusl
DiabloWiki.com - Frenzy Barb by Rousse Frenzy Barb by Rousse
DiabloWiki.com - Mauler by emilemil1 Mauler by emilemil1

For a full list of all guides in the wiki, visit DiabloWiki.com - Class Builds (Diablo II) Class Builds (Diablo II).

What Else is New?
Apoc has added three new character pages: Lead Content Designer DiabloWiki.com - Kevin Martens Kevin Martens, Concept Artist DiabloWiki.com - Josh Tallman Josh Tallman and voice actor DiabloWiki.com - Michael Gough Michael Gough, The Man Behind the Cain.

Jackzor has added a little bit to the DiabloWiki.com - Enchantments Enchantments page, but has also added screenshots to all D3 monster pages in the wiki, so take a peek in the DiabloWiki.com - Portal:Bestiary Portal:Bestiary to get a glimpse of monsters in action in the game.

Finally there's two new articles added by me about DiabloWiki.com - Seram Seram and DiabloWiki.com - Partha Partha, two towns in the Sin War novels where Uldyssian grew up and started preaching. This is the first of many new lore-related articles that I'll be adding to the wiki in the nearby future.

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