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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

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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Outdated Articles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
Category:Equipment - Many individual equipment category lists are out of date and need updating.

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
User Signatures
Userboxes

IRC Chatroom

Webchat

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

Source entry: FFXIclopedia:Community Portal. Cached on this server on 5 November 2026.