FFXIclopedia:Community Portal

Community Portal FFXIclopedia wants you! Together we are building an encyclopedia relating to Final Fantasy XI and a wiki community. As a wiki, you can edit virtually any article on FFXIclopedia right now, or create a new one! To learn more about wiki in general, take a look at the Wikipedia Tutorial and experiment in your own sandbox. You can post comments about the FFXIclopedia at the Comments Page, review the F.A.Q. or our policies, or contact the administrators or other FFXIclopedia users by leaving a message on their talk page or user board. If you haven't done so already, you will want to create an account then verify your email so that you can begin editing. Contents: 1 Help out 2 Guidelines, help, and resources 3 Note from the Lead Editor You might be looking for... Help with an aspect of FFXIclopedia: See the F.A.Q. for documentation. Answers for wiki related questions: Please ask a FFXIclopedia Mentor or Patroller. A place to discuss things with other users: The main discussion forum, with sections covering every aspect of FFXI.

Help out FFXIclopedia is the largest Final Fantasy XI encyclopedia known to exist. However, many articles are incomplete or otherwise need attention. There are many things to do to help out.
Things to do Create new articles or fix broken links based on the Wanted Pages using the appropriate templates. Entries that link only to user pages can be ignored. Complete or request help on a project using our project requests page Verify questionable information. Confirm needed information. Expand pages with missing information or articles about Notorious Monsters lacking information Fix broken or double redirects. Check out the list of unused images and either mark replaced images for deletion or place newer images on pages they belong to.	Fix-up projects Articles with improper formatting Dead-end pages Incomplete articles Items needing images Key item articles needing images Mob or NM articles needing images NPC articles needing images Outdated Articles Wanted articles
Languages FFXIclopedia needs your help translating and advancing our alternate language wikis. We currently offer: French ٠ German ٠ Japanese ٠ Spanish ٠ Arabic

Resources, Policies and Guidelines FFXIclopedia has a number of different resources and policies. Here are some of the more helpful and important ones.

Resources FFXIclopedia has many resources which can be utilized to make your time here helpful and productive. Help / New User Info About FFXIclopedia Administrators FFXIclopedia F.A.Q. Mentors New Members Guide by Birgitte Patrollers Special Pages Editing Editing Guide Editing Tips List of categories List of images List of templates Community information Blogs Forums Friend's Activity Never-ending Quiz Popular Userboxes User Signatures Userboxes IRC Chatroom CGI Client

Policies and guidelines FFXIclopedia has many established policies, guidelines, conventions, and traditions. This is a very brief sampling of some of the most important ones. Policies and guidelines apply both to articles and how to work with fellow editors. Editing Policies Bot Policy Drop Rate Policy Image Policy Link Policy Naming Conventions Prohibited Articles Quiz Policy Software Limitations Userbox Policy Community Policies Appropriate Behavior Inappropriate Behavior Content Control & Article Ownership User Pages User Signatures What FFXIclopedia is not Administrator Related Administrators Article Protection Guide to Deletion Vandal Reports Legal Policies Copyrights General Disclaimer Privacy Policy

Note from the Lead Editor

With the end of 2007 looming it seems like an appropriate time for a look back at the wiki over this past year. It was a year of significant changes and improvements to the wiki, not to mention growth. Growth in terms of articles. Growth in terms of users. Growth in terms of pageviews. Growth in terms of database size. To put it in perspective, compare November 2007 to November 2006. November 2007 November 2006 % Change Visits 3,168,158 1,047,924 +202.33% Pageviews 32,963,567 12,066,591 +173.18% Absolute Unique Visitors 423,090 176,808 +139.29% Database Size (Words) 5.4 million 3.8 million +42.11% Database Size (Articles) 20,000 17,000 +17.65% In that same period of time, we have gone from the 30,000th most visited website to the 4,000th, and have become, and will continue to be, the best resource for all things FFXI related. We have partnered with Wikia, which not only allows this growth to continue, but provides us with a network focused entirely on wikis and wiki technology. Since we began this endeavor in late 2004, we have experienced a number of bumps in the road, a few of which we experienced this past year. This is to be expected. Overall we have weathered the bumps well, and, as is apparent above, have thrived. Thanks again to everyone who has and continues to contribute to this project. I hope everyone is looking forward to a great 2008! --GAHOO t/ c 15:52, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

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