SIGNALIS Wiki:Style guide

This is a guide for editing on SIGNALIS Wiki. Edits should follow these guidelines to provide a consistent experience across pages.

Editors who have questions about any of the guidelines or are unsure about whether they're allowed to do something are encouraged to write on this page's Talk space, or to reach out in the full.

General Guidelines

Replika names

Replika names have been shown to follow a few different naming conventions:

• Unit type, hyphened location string and unit number, 'nickname'.
  • e.g., STAR S-2313 'Hunter', from STAR S-2313 (Memory).

• Unit type, shortened location string and unit number, no nickname.
  • e.g., EULR-S2309 and ARAR-S2303, from Service Request Form F-29.

• Unit type, shortened location string, and unit number, all hyphenated.
  • e.g., KLBR-R16-04 and KNCR-R16-22 from Message Inbox

Images

To add an image into a page, use File:<imagename>.extension, with double brackets on each side of the image name: [[File:Memory Dictionary Cover.png]].

To adjust the image to an appropriate size, add |thumb after the extension, and before the closing brackets: [[File:Memory Dictionary Cover.png|thumb]]. Please refrain from specifying a specific pixel width or height, unless there is very good reason to do so.

Files and uploading

Please don't upload images of text

Unless the text content is the same in every language version of the game (such as sprites and textures), or is of the environment where it differs per language version of the game, please do not upload images of text. The text contents from documents, memories, dialogue, and more should be directly transcribed into the proper article where appropriate.

The precedent on SIGNALIS Wiki has been to upload images of all text content such as from memory pages or dialogue, however this practice should be discouraged. It becomes incredibly cumbersome when the same content has to be uploaded for every language, as well as just eating up a lot of storage for what is essentially duplicate content.

Screenshots

To produce a consistent image, screenshots taken within the game should use the following settings:

Display

• Resolution: 1920x1080
• Brightness: Default (center)
• Pixel Perfect

Graphics

• Pixel Scale: Auto
• Fitting: Pixel Perfect
• Film Grain: OFF
• CRT Mode: OFF

Naming standard

The names of files should be standardized as:
<Prefix> <Subject Name> <descriptor>.extension
For example, a gif featuring the reload animation of the Pistol should be named "Item Pistol reloading.gif".

Files where the original name or title contains characters which are not accepted in file names, should have the preventing character replaced with a hyphen -.
For example, a file who's original title is LSTR Features: Repair Logic Module would not be able to be named LSTR Features: Repair Logic Module.png due to limitations in file naming. The colon : would have to be replaced, resulting in LSTR Features- Repair Logic Module.png.

Prefix

The prefix should be capitalized, and should typically be a common identifier such as 'Item' for items, and 'Memory' for memories.

Unique characters (like Elster, Ariane Yeong) or replikas with a unique identifying number or nickname (like Adler (ADLR-S2301), Beo (MNHR-S2301)) do not need a common identifier since their full names are identifying enough.

Subject name

The full name of the subject observed in the file should be be capitalized according to the in-game capitalization, or title cased if fully capitalized. For example:

• 'S-23 Sierpinski' instead of 's-23 sierpinski'
• 'Dictionary' instead of 'DICTIONARY'
• 'Ariane Yeong' instead of 'Ariane'.

Files regarding replikas should (? there are multiple replika naming conventions).

Descriptor term (affix)

The affix should describe the context of the file, to distinguish it from images with the same prefix and name. This should be something short like:

• 'portrait' for a portrait image of an individual
• 'sprite' for specifically sprite images
• 'reloading' for a gif of the Pistol's reload animation.

It should not be something which is normally written into a caption or alt-text.

Article Formatting

• Item article format
• Memory article format