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Path of Exile Wiki is a community project run entirely by volunteers to provide information for the game.

Our community of editors is open to anyone. If you would like to join in:

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Need help
- Check out our help wiki.

Be bold
- There's no need to wait. Jump right in and start editing. The wiki maintenance category may be a great place to start, or you can start small by fixing spelling, grammar, and other errors you come across.

Start a new article

Alternatively, just type a new article name in the search box. A link will be provided to start the article at the top of the search results.

Recent changes
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Community discussion
- See what the community is currently talking about or make suggestions.

Getting started

New to the Path of Exile wiki?

Read the Path of Exile Wiki editing guidelines
Overview of Templates
Overview of Modules
Known issues

Helping out on the Path of Exile Wiki

The wiki is community maintained and we need everyone to help out. Check out Path of Exile Wiki:To-do list for a list of general to-do that are being worked on.

There are also some minor improvements to be done, here are some ideas:

Browse Category:Maintenance and improve any pages
Improve existing pages (see the section below for more details)
Create new pages if you can't find the information you seek (or create redirect pages if the information exists)
Reduce content-duplication by implementing Labeled Section Transclusion
Help with any of the projects listed on this page

Improving existing pages

Correct spelling and grammar
Make sure the pages are in line with other similar pages (i.e. share similar layout and order of sections)
Adding sources
Add missing information
Improve the understanding of pages by
- rewording complicated/convoluted sentences
- adding examples (consider using the #expr parser function and Cargo; avoid too many examples)
- adding LaTeX formulas with {{Math}}
Adding interwiki links to other articles
Verify the information on the page is still correct in regards to the current version of the game
Port existing templates to lua modules

Language translation

See Translation guidelines.

Updating via bots

See Path of Exile Wiki:PyPoE for poe-wiki specific bots.

Querying data from the wiki

See Path of Exile Wiki:Data query API

Projects

General to-do list for the wiki
- To-do list for version 3.8.0, Blight

Uncompressed DDS files from the ggpk for the wiki

If you've been trying to get images for the wiki from the content.ggpk recently, you'll probably have noticed that they are "no valid dds file".

The image files are compressed with google's brotli library. The first 4 bytes of the file are not part of the image data, but rather a byte-size of the uncompressed image. Some "dds" files may also be text file to contain a pointer to another dds file (like *2DArt/Whatever.dds

If you don't want to handle that yourself you can use PyPoE, basically follow those steps

Install Python 3.5+ and PyPoE
Make sure to perform the full install as it will install brotli

Then using the pypoe_ui command in the ggpk viewer, you have check in the options menu that dds files are uncompressed upon extracting them.

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-If you're new to the Path of Exile Wiki project, please read the [[Help:Contents|Help]] page, and don't forget to check the [[Help:Editing|Editing]] page for details on how to format pages.
+<div id="admins" class="feature">
+{{Admins}}
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+<div id="help" class="feature">
+<div style="text-align: center; font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;">Need help, want something changed or want to debate about something? In the community portal you will find exactly what you need!<br>
+{{fullurl|Project:Community portal|action{{=}}watch|text=Add this page}} to your [[Special:Watchlist|watchlist]] and stay on top of things!</div>
+{{SITENAME}} is a ''community project'' run entirely by volunteers to provide information for the game.
-__TOC__
+Our community of editors is open to anyone. If you would like to join in:
-==Getting started==
+*Register
-===New to wiki editing?===
+**A [[Special:CreateAccount|free account]] makes it easier to keep track of your own edits.
-* Basics
-** Read [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Tutorial|tutorial on Wikipedia]]
-** Consult [[gphelp:Gamepedia Help Wiki|Gamepedia Help Wiki]] for further reading
-* Advanced editing
-** [[mediawikiwiki:Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual|Lua scripting with scribunto]]
-** Using [[smw:Help:User_manual|Semantic Media Wiki (SMW)]] (for info specific to this wiki, also consider [[Path of Exile Wiki:Semantic Mediawiki rework|Semantic Mediawiki rework]]))
+*Need help
-===New to the path of exile wiki?===
+**Check out our [[gphelp:|help wiki]].
+*Be bold
-* [[Path of Exile wiki:Manual of Style|Manual of Style]]
+**There's no need to wait. Jump right in and start editing. The [[:Category:Maintenance|wiki maintenance category]] may be a great place to start, or you can start small by fixing spelling, grammar, and other errors you come across.
-* [[Path of Exile wiki:Overview of Templates|Overview of Templates]]
-* [[Path of Exile wiki:Overview of Modules|Overview of Modules]]
-* [[Path of Exile wiki:Known issues|Known issues]]
+*Start a new article
-===Helping out on the path of exile wiki===
+*:<inputbox>
+type= create
+width= 40
+</inputbox>
+<div style="text-align:center;">''Alternatively, just type a new article name in the search box. A link will be provided to start the article at the top of the search results.''</div>
+*Recent changes
-The wiki is community maintained and we need everyone to help out.
+**See a list of [[Special:RecentChanges|recent changes]].
+*Community discussion
-If you don't have any ideas where to start, here are some ideas:
+**See what the community is currently [[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|talking about or make suggestions]].
+</div>
+</div>__NOTOC__
+==Getting started==
+===New to the Path of Exile wiki?===
+* Read the Path of Exile Wiki editing [[:Category:Guidelines|guidelines]]
+* [[Path of Exile Wiki:Overview of Templates|Overview of Templates]]
+* [[Path of Exile Wiki:Overview of Modules|Overview of Modules]]
+* [[Path of Exile Wiki:Known issues|Known issues]]
+===Helping out on the Path of Exile Wiki===
+The wiki is community maintained and we need everyone to help out.
+Check out [[Path of Exile Wiki:To-do list]] for a list of general to-do that are being worked on.
+There are also some minor improvements to be done, here are some ideas:
 * Browse [[:Category:Maintenance]] and improve any pages
 * Improve existing pages (see the section below for more details)
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 * Improve the understanding of pages by
 ** rewording complicated/convoluted sentences
-** adding examples (consider using the [[mediawikiwiki:wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions#.23expr|#expr parser function]] and SMW; avoid too many examples)
+** adding examples (consider using the [[mediawikiwiki:wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions#.23expr|#expr parser function]] and Cargo; avoid too many examples)
-** [[wikipedia:Help:Displaying_a_formula|adding LaTeX formulas]] with [[mediawikiwiki:Extension:Math|Extension:Math]]
+** [[wikipedia:Help:Displaying_a_formula|adding LaTeX formulas]] with {{tlx|Math}}
 * Adding interwiki links to other articles
 * Verify the information on the page is still correct in regards to the current version of the game
+* Port existing templates to lua modules
+====Language translation====
+See [https://help.gamepedia.com/Translation_guidelines Translation guidelines].
+====Updating via bots====
+* See [[Path of Exile Wiki:PyPoE]] for poe-wiki specific bots.
+===Querying data from the wiki===
+See [[Path of Exile Wiki:Data query API]]
 ==Projects==
-* [[Path of Exile Wiki:Semantic Mediawiki rework|Semantic Mediawiki rework]] (also see the discussion on the portal talk page)
+* [[Path of Exile Wiki:To-do list|General to-do list for the wiki]]
+** [[Path of Exile Wiki:To-do list/3.8.0|To-do list for version 3.8.0, Blight]]
+==Uncompressed DDS files from the ggpk for the wiki==
-==Adding New Languages==
+If you've been trying to get images for the wiki from the content.ggpk recently, you'll probably have noticed that they are "no valid dds file".
-We get a lot of inquiries about adding new languages to the site, this section will help guide you through the process of what we need in order to implement these new sections.
+The image files are compressed with google's brotli library. The first 4 bytes of the file are not part of the image data, but rather a byte-size of the uncompressed image.
-If you would like to translate a page, first please let the head admin know on his talk page: [[User_talk:Iamacyborg|Iamacyborg talk]].
+Some "dds" files may also be text file to contain a pointer to another dds file (like <code>*2DArt/Whatever.dds</code>
+If you don't want to handle that yourself you can use PyPoE, basically follow those steps
-The steps for translating are the following:
+* Install Python 3.5+ and [https://github.com/OmegaK2/PyPoE PyPoE]
-*Create a new page with "/languagecode" added to the end of the pagename of the page you wish to translate. ie. If you want to translate the page "Templar" to Spanish, you would create page "Templar/es". For a list of Language codes, please see: http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php
+* Make sure to perform the full install as it will install brotli
-*At the bottom of the page edit, add the page to the category: <code><nowiki>[[Category:LANGUAGECODE Translation]]</nowiki></code>. ie. Translating a page to Spanish would have <code><nowiki>[[Category:ES Translation]]</nowiki></code> added to the bottom of the edit. This will put all translated pages into a single category.
-*If the main page and all pages linked to from the main page are translated a sub-domain will be set up for that translation. ie. A translated Spanish wiki would be at es.pathofexilewiki.com. Those who did the translating will be given admin access to this sub-domain.
+Then using the pypoe_ui command in the ggpk viewer, you have check in the options menu that dds files are uncompressed upon extracting them.
-We also hope that you can keep an eye on the wiki to prevent vandals, etc.
+[[Category:Community]]
-If you have any issues or additional question, post on [[User_talk:Iamacyborg|Iamacyborg talk]].
+[[de:Path of Exile Wiki:Gemeinschaftsportal]]