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For readers[]

Desktop skin[]

For mobile users, we strongly recommend browsing this wiki using the desktop skin. Mobile browsers tend to have a menu option to "Request Desktop Site". Alternatively, there is a link to "view full site" at the very bottom of each wiki page. This wiki has a considerable amount of hard work and important functionality that is completely lost in the minimalist mobile skin. The wiki is an extremely long-term work in progress, needing an enormous amount of work still on expanding articles and ensuring their quality. This reality unfortunately clashes heavily with the mobile skin, which is geared entirely toward readers and omits crucial information about articles that may not be up to par. Readers are often unable to tell the difference between an essentially complete article and one that has had less care put into it. Because of its many problems and black-box nature, it has become too complicated and restrictive to operate the wiki with the mobile skin in mind.

Try visiting the main page in the desktop skin. See how different it is?

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An alternative to using the desktop skin and/or ad blockers is to use an alternative frontend like BreezeWiki or WikiMax to browse the wiki. Note that not everything functions properly through these alternate frontends.

For contributors[]

Important pages[]

This page lists some of the pages you might like to use as you contribute here.

Editing is better than criticizing[]

People have often written a short message on a talk page saying how bad the page is, without even specifying what's wrong with it. This can be frustrating for the editors who worked on the page. Additionally, if an article is bad because it's incomplete (i.e. it has a stub message or a message calling for its expansion), complaining about it won't make the work magically happen. There are appropriate ways to point out that a page needs improvement, such as putting {{stub}}, {{expand}} and {{cleanup}} on pages as appropriate. See Template:Stub, Template:Expand, and Template:Cleanup for details.

A community effort[]

It doesn't matter much whether you as an individual can write "well" enough. Editing articles is a great way to learn about how the wiki runs, and other contributors will probably come in to make little fixes anyway. We only ask that you be coherent in your edits so that appropriate action can easily be determined. However, you should avoid engaging in so-called "edit wars" by reverting what other people do to your work without reason.

A lot of first-time editors get their edits reverted or mercilessly modified. Don't feel too badly about this, because other editors simply want to maintain the quality of the article that you just edited.

Guidelines[]

Please keep in mind that guidelines do exist and that articles are generally expected to be of a certain level of quality. You should especially be aware of the in-universe style in which articles about the Ace Attorney universe are written; this means that you should use past tense in your sentences and refer to all characters by their last names. This allows each article to read like an actual record one might find inside the Ace Attorney universe. More information on guidelines can be found in the manual of style.

Please learn how templates work before attempting something major with them. If a word or a block of code is enclosed by double curly brackets ({{}}), it's calling a template. You should go to the template's page to see how it works so that when you edit code that uses the template, your edit will appear as you intended.

Making new articles[]

Here are a few things that a new article should always include:

  • Categories. This is probably the most important thing to include. Categories allow people to find the new article more easily and to improve on it!
  • Appropriate templates. Character articles need to have Template:Character on them. Episode articles need to have Template:CaseData and Template:Episodes on them. Articles about places and organizations need to have Template:Place on them. You can use the buttons above the new article editing box to input these automatically.

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