Wiki Formatting

Some rules and references for editors to keep the wiki consistent and in line with the text formatting and spelling of the games and related media.

Here is the MediaWiki Formatting Help Page.

Images

 * All PetzPix images that don't have a background included must be transparent (.png or .gif is best). You can do this quick and dirty online with something like Lunapic, but I don't recommend most "fast and simple" online editors photos of Petz with solid white-white eyes (170 or 200, for example) because it doesn't discriminate. You can also use free photo-editing software (I recommend Paint.Net) for more control. Images exported from Tinker are automatically transparent.
 * In general, don't directly take pictures from other websites, pictures of selective breeds and the like. Make your own! This doesn't/can't really apply to things like merchandise and other physical objects like game boxes or example graphics from Petz sites and whatnot.
 * We'd greatly prefer Petz in example pictures (such in the Clothes example pictures or on the top of the Toyz page) to be non-hexed. Purebreds are slightly preferred but any base-game mixes are fine.
 * Please name your files something descriptive or easily searchable before you upload them!

Text Formatting

 * All game titles should be italicized in standard "paragraph" text (Dogz 4, not Dogz 4).
 * In general, use alphabetical order for lists, but use your discretion if you feel the page doesn't flow right. Obviously things like LNZ sections don't require it.

Canon Spelling
These are spellings found in the game or manuals.


 * Capitalize Petz, Dogz/Catz, and Kittenz/Puppyz, single and plural. The manual spells it with a Y, so we're sticking to it. Same goes for Bunnyz/Pigz and Toyz.
 * Oddly, Bunny is pluralized "Bunniez" in the in-game "tips and tricks" banner, but we will keep it in line with Puppyz, which is going to get a lot more mileage on this wiki.
 * Breed names: Capitalize always, pluralize with an S not a Z.

LNZ Formatting
For LNZ sections, use the format. In a text-heavy tutorial,  is easier to parse than 256 Eyelid Color when it's surrounded by a paragraph of descriptive text in the same font.

Citations and External Linking
Even though it's only been four years since the wiki started, a lot of the websites linked to or cited have gone down in that time. It's sad but reinforces how important it is to preserve this knowledge.

Please run external websites through archive.org and cite a mirrored snapshot of them.

Over the next few weeks this wiki will start its own archive.org file collection of official and Community downloads that are otherwise unavailable.