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== Welcome ==
Welcome to the Eternal Lands Wiki, a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki wiki] for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMORPG MMORPG] ''[http://www.eternal-lands.com Eternal Lands]''. This wiki is maintained and enhanced by players of ''Eternal Lands'' and was started by the Fellowship of the Celtic Woods (FoCW).

'''Note:'''
* This wiki is '''not''' officially sponsored, supported, or sanctioned by the ''Eternal Lands'' or any of their staff.
* You are allowed to post the root URL (www.el-wiki.net) in official chat channels in the game. However, do '''not''' post pages containing spoilers. Posting ''general'' info such as links on how to make various items is OK.
* Game secrets and spoilers do '''not''' belong in the wiki. They go in [http://smf.el-wiki.net/ the forum] and are not visible unless you have a username and password.
* '''Before registering''' to edit pages and/or access the forum, see the [[#Read before registering|"Read before registering"]] section below.
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=== How to pass wiki information on ===
Send a series of private messages:
* First - What I am about to send you can not be posted in channels 1 - 20.
* Second - the link.

See [http://www.eternal-lands.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=28127 Official Channel Rules].
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As the game is ever-changing, this wiki is always in need of being updated, corrected, and enhanced. In short, your editing contributions are appreciated! There's also a way of contributing financially, the details of which can be found on the [[Eternal Lands Wiki:Site support|site support]] page.

If you experience problems like missing images/functionality or general problems, please send an e-mail to '''elwiki[dot]net[at]googlemail[dot]com'''.

== Index ==
* [[Astrology]] - Astrology affects your life in EL. 
* [[Advanced Strategies]] - under construction
* [[Alchemy]] - Alchemy index
* [[Armour]] - Armour index
* [[Combat|Attack &amp; Defense]]: What the warrior must know.
* [[Attributes]] and how they influence a character
* [[Beginner Help]] - How to begin your journey successfully.
* [[Best places]] - Where to find what you are looking for - mostly harvesting/mixing-related
* [[Books]] - Knowledge is the key to success on Draia
* [[Clothes]] - Clothes index, also see [[Armour]] and [[Tailoring]].
* [[Acronyms|Commonly used acronyms in alphabetic order]]
* [[Crafting]] - Crafting index
* [[Creatures|Creatures &amp; Monsters]]
* [[Engineering]] - Engineering index
* [[Emoticons]] - Commonly used variations of smileys and their meaning.
* [[Food]] - Prevent starvation
* [[Gods]] - Worshipping facts
* [[Guides]] for various skills - published with permissions
* [[Guilds]] - information about guilds in general, guild options and select guilds
* [[Harvestables]] - Information about harvestable items.
* [[Instances]] - Rules, variations and caps.
* [[Invance]]s - Rules, variations and caps.
* [[Invasions]] - Maps and routes
* [[Magic]] - A Mage's reference
* [[Manufacturing]] - Manufacturing Index by Skill Levels
* [[Maps]] - Maps index, information about maps: harvestables, npc's, sightseeing etc.
* [[Nexus]] - Nexus index, what you need to make and equip things.
* [[Perks]] - Perks index, what special effects you can get.
* [[Poison]] - How Poison works
* [[Potion]] - Potions index
* [[Quests]] - Quests index, with links to the appropriate forum threads (see [[Help:Editing#How to Handle Secrets|how to handle secrets]])
* [[Ranging]] - Ranging or Archery index
* [[Servers]] - How to join different servers, like the official [[PK Server]] or the test server
* [[Social Interaction]] - Standard Code of Behaviour in EL and Emoticons
* [[Special Days]] - Special days and their influence.
* [[Stones]] - Index of rare and special stones
* [[Tools and miscellaneous items]] - Keys, Leather, etc.
* [[Weapons]] - Weapons index

== Announcements ==

=== Read before registering ===
* You must create an account with the wiki to edit pages.
* Your account name '''MUST''' be your character's name in ''[http://www.eternal-lands.com Eternal Lands]'', and it must be activated by an el-wiki bureaucrat before you can edit pages. Your account will not be activated if your character's name does not exist in ''Eternal Lands''.
* You can create an account by clicking "Log in / create account" in the top right corner of any el-wiki page.
* To have your account activated, you can either contact a user with [[Special:Listusers/bureaucrat|bureaucrat]] rights or send an e-mail to '''elwiki.net[at]googlemail[dot]com''' (''please check for notices on the [[Talk:Main Page|Talk page]]'').
* Currently active bureaucrats are burn and Maxine. Send either of them a message in EL, e.g. via Mercator (bot in EL).
* Please read the [[Help:Editing|editing help]] before making your first edits to the wiki.
* The most important thing for a wiki are cross-links between pages. If a page is not linked to by any other pages, it effectively doesn't exist, so please add links to all relevant pages.
* Before adding ''secret information'' from the game, please read the editing help on [[Help:Editing#How to handle secrets|how to handle secrets]] carefully!
* To add ''secret information'' from the game, you must create a forum account as stated in ''[[Help:Editing#How to handle secrets|How to Handle Secrets]]''. See the [[#Forum access|"forum access"]] section below. Your forum account is separate from your wiki account.

==== Forum access ====
* Game ''secrets'' and other information, such as most [[Quests]], are not visible unless you have an account on the [http://smf.el-wiki.net forum].
* Your account name '''MUST''' be your character's name in ''[http://www.eternal-lands.com Eternal Lands]'', and it must be activated by a forum moderator before you can log in. Your account will not be activated if your character's name does not exist in ''Eternal Lands''. (see [[forum:567]])
* Your forum account is separate from your wiki account.

=== Searching the wiki ===
If your browser supports [http://www.opensearch.org/ OpenSearch] (Firefox and IE do) you can add "Eternal Lands Wiki (en)" as a search engine to your browser and search the wiki using your browser's search box.

Your browser should provide an easy way to switch search engines (Firefox has a drop down menu right next to the search input field) and should provide an option to add a new search engine in the same place (again, Firefox does this, if IE is different please add the appropriate information here).

=== Request for Admins ===
Wanted: People interested in doing administrative duties on the wiki. Payment - a sense of accomplishing something for the public good. Contact elwiki.net[at]googlemail[dot]com via email.

Duties include: Verifying that the name registered is a true player of Eternal Lands ([http://game.eternal-lands.com/view_user.php?user= http://game.eternal-lands.com/view_user.php?user=<USERNAME>]) then setting up the privileges (non-el if not an existing character, editor if an existing character).

=== New default skin ===
Thanks to Tainted Angel, we now have a slightly modified default theme for the wiki, one of it's main features being the fact that it will span the entire width of the browser window.

Registered users can change the skin they are using in their preferences in case they don't like the default one.

'''Update''': Users that registered before this post will have to change the skin to the new default skin "elWiki" in their preferences to see it.

=== Issues with the Wiki User Interface ===
Posted on 2-Nov-2020 by maxine:

For a while now we have not been able to access the wiki in a regular way. However, editing pages is possible if you are logged in. To edit a page, add "?action=edit" (without the quotes) after the URL of the page. The wiki forum layout is also messed up, but also there you can log in and then access information, e.g. on quests. 

Burn has provided a workaround for issues with the wiki forum, see http://www.eternal-lands.com/forum/index.php?/topic/61491-how-to-fix-the-broken-el-wiki-forum/ 

--[[User:Ermabwed|Ermabwed]] 21:27, 16 June 2010 (UTC)