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So, you want to contribute to the Steam Trading Cards Wiki? Excellent! We definitely can use the help. This Manual of Style outlines a standard of clean, consistent formatting for articles in Steam Trading Cards Wiki. The formatting described here is a guideline and can be overridden where circumstances warrant it. These guidelines will never be unerringly perfect for every situation. However, please try your best to keep to the advice outlined in this article so others may use your edits as an example when creating and editing their own articles.

Grammar

  • Do not use slang or abbreviations. The Steam Trading Cards Wiki is a professional resource.
  • Use correct punctuation. This includes commas, periods, quotation marks and apostrophes
  • Use capital letters where required.

Capitalization

  • Capitalize the first word of every sentence.
  • Capitalize proper nouns. (eg. Gabe Newell)
  • Capitalize the first and important words in a title (e.g. Steam is Entertaining)
  • Capitalize the first letter of a card name only, even if the card name is in all caps. So instead of 'MEDIC', use 'Medic' instead. This looks more professional.

Editors

Fandom has two options of MediaWiki editors; VisualEditor and the 2010 Source Editor. Whilst VisualEditor seems attractive and easy to use, it does not allow the editing of certain templates and causes several formatting issues, therefore it is not recommended for regular editors to use.

To use the 2010 Source Editor, you will need to select it within your user preferences, you can find the option to change your preferred editor under the "Editing" tab, there is a section titled "Editor" with a sub-section titled "Preferred Editor", you will find a dropdown list with three options, select "Source editor".

Article Names

Strip all trademark (™), registered trademark (®) symbols and copyright (©) symbols from page names. So, for example, "Command & Conquer Remastered Collection" instead of "Command & Conquer™ Remastered Collection", even though that is how the name appears in Steam.

Standard Page Layout

Pages consist mainly of a bunch of templates to make it easier for users to edit. A game and app page mainly consists of the following (in order):

A good example of a page using all templates correctly is the page American Truck Simulator and Team Fortress 2. Exceptions to the rule are as of yet for the Special Card Sets pages.

Image File Names

Every game that has trading cards is going to have images for 5-15 cards, 5-15 foil cards, 5-15 card artworks, 6 badges, 3-10 emoticons and 3-8 backgrounds. Its roughly about 30-40 images per game on average. With over 1000 games already having cards and more being added all the time, that's tens of thousands of images. So its important to pick file names that describe what exactly the images is so that its possible to find it easily though search.

The general standards that we've decided on for images basically boils down to this:

For game logos: "Game Name Logo"

For card images: "Game Name Card #"

For foil card images: "Game Name Foil #"

For card artwork images: "Game Name Artwork #"

Note that for each of these, the # should be the same for a given card, using the ordering that the cards appear on on the badges page. So if you have a game named Awesome Game, the first card on the badges page would have a card image name of "Awesome Game Card 1", a foil image of "Awesome Game Foil 1", and artwork image of "Awesome Game Artwork 1".

For badges: "GameName Badge #" for badge levels 1-5, and "Game Name Badge Foil" for the foil badge.

For booster packs: "Game Name Booster Pack"

For emoticons:"Game Name Emoticon EmoticonName"

For backgrounds: "Game Name Background Background Name"

Licensing

When uploading images, please mark them as Fair Use. Doing this when uploading an image is generally quite easy - at or near the bottom of the file upload form, there should be a drop-down option box labeled "Licensing" (you may need to click 'more' to expand the box, depending on which upload method you use.) Fair use is generally the first option on the menu.

If you've already uploaded the image and forgot to add the licensing information, you can add it by visiting the file's page, clicking "edit", and and adding the following to the description:

==Licensing==
{{Fairuse}}

Categories

Categorization of pages and images is important to ensure that people searching the wiki can find what they want easily. For that reason, every page and image should be categorized. The primary categories used are:

(game name) - the name of the game that the page or image is about.

Supported Games - a game that has active Trading Card support.

Supported Movies - a movie that has active Trading Card support.

Supported Software - a software title that has active Trading Card support.

Logos - the image header for each supported title.

Trading Cards - for both the card images and Trading Card pages

Foil Trading Cards - for the foil trading card images.

Card Artwork - for the artwork of a card.

Badges - for game badges, both regular and foil.

Foil Badges - only for foil badges

Booster Pack - for Booster Packs

Emoticons - for emoticons.

Profile Backgrounds - for background images.

Work in progress - indicates that the page in question, most likely a Supported Game page, isn't complete. This is removed once a game's page has had all of the cards, badges, emoticons, backgrounds, etc, added.

WIP-Badges - indicates a games that doesn't yet have all of its badges. Removed once all badges are added. (No longer used/supported)

Where to get the images

For trading cards and the like, there's a lot of possible places in Steam that display the images, but not all of them are as good. Some of them are small, low-resolution images, and others have large invisible backgrounds that would need to be cropped. To help ensure that all images are the best quality possible, we'd recommend the following:

For Card Images

Get them from your Steam Badges page for the game, viewed through a web browser (not the Steam client.) Even if you don't have the game, you can still view it by visiting steamcommunity.com/id/(your Steam ID)/gamecards/(Game ID)/. Your Steam ID is whatever your profile name is on Steam. The Game ID is, in the vast majority of cases, the same number as in the game's address on the Steam store. For example, Team Fortress 2 in the Steam Store has the address of http://store.steampowered.com/app/440/ . 440 is Team Fortress 2's game ID. To view your Team Fortress 2 cards, you would visit steamcommunity.com/profiles/(your Steam ID)/gamecards/440/. There are a few exceptions to this, especially with Category:Special Card Sets, but it works 99% of the time.

Once you find the right page, you can just right-click the images and pick "Save Image As". Unless you own the card - then it's a bit more complicated because Steam wants to show you the card artwork. In that case, I'd recommend checking out someone else's profile. You can view anyone else's badge progress just by sticking THEIR steam ID in the web address.



For Foil Card Images

Same as the regular card images, except add ?border=1 to the end of the previously mentioned web address. Team Fortress 2's foil cards are located at steamcommunity.com/id/(your Steam ID)/gamecards/440/?border=1.



For Card Artwork

The only way to get this is to own the card in question. Once you do that, just click on the card, then right-click the image the pops up, and Save Image As.



For Booster Packs

Visit steamcommunity-a.akamaihd.net/economy/boosterpack/(Game ID).



For Badges

The only recommended way of obtaining badge images is visiting a third-party website like Steamdb or the Steam Card Exchange, otherwise you could go to your user profile to retrieve the badge images you have earned.



For Emoticons

Essentially the same as booster packs. Find the emoticon in the Steam Community Market, right-click to open the image in a new window, remove the forward slash and everything following it at the end of the URL, and save the image.



For Profile Backgrounds

Find the image in the Steam Community Market. Click the "View Full Size" button, and save the image.

The dimensions of the images are usually (steam standard size):

  • For Trading Cards and Foil Cards: 224px × 261px
  • For Badges: 80px × 80px
  • For Emoticons: 54px × 54px

The profile background and card artwork dimensions in most cases are 1920px × 1080px. Sometimes these images can also be present in a small size (eg 800px x 600px) or larger size (eg: 1920px × 1200px).

Creating a new trading card page

Information about that topic can be found on this page.

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