The Albion Online Wiki

Bogul · Jun 17th 2018, 8:27am

Fellow citizens of the mysterious world of Albion Online,

With this thread I want to set in motion a project to revitalize the efforts to update and maintain a proper wiki for our favorite game: Albion Online.

I see a big opportunity to create something that is not just a wiki to look up basic information or descriptions of what things do, but potentially a great resource of information and history for the ever evolving world of Albion.

With this thread, which will be a work in progress that will be updated and frequently edited along the way I hope to merge all discussion and suggestions regarding the Albion Wiki in one place. Check back regularly or subscribe to this thread by clicking the little red bookmark icon on the top right of the post to get notifications about the progress of this project. If you respond to this thread you will usually also be auto-subscribed.

link: https://wiki.albiononline.com/

Most Recent Announcement

Bogul wrote:

Hey guys!

Good news! Going forward @Clementine will be taking over the Wiki Admin role and the Wiki Project.

Within the next week and a half I will be handing over all the "keys", accounts and perms over to her. I'm not sure what will happen to this thread - maybe a new one will be made so you can go ahead and subscribe to the new one soon.

As you might have noticed, I had spent little time doing Wiki things over the last month - mostly because I was busy with AlbionTV. So a change fits very well in this current situation to keep the momentum and push things even further with the Wiki

I'm very glad Clemmie is in the position to take over the Wiki Project - with substantially more time to allocate to it than I ever had in the past!

We've talked quite a bit so far and she has a lot of great ideas. You can definately look forward to seeing some great changes coming to the Wiki in the very near future!

So long story short: from now on please talk to @Clementine for all things Wiki!

@Clementine is the new boss now

Current Status:

We have a public Trello Board now! Take a look at this if you want to see what we are currently working on.
- trello.com/c/PVbtK5wX/34-intro-click-this
We're looking for more contributors! Read this thread, especially the next few posts if you want to get involved!

Any questions or suggestions? Please reply to this thread!

Bogul · Jun 17th 2018, 8:27am

How do I get involved?

super fast & easy:

find an article that needs improving, by surfing the wiki or searching for something
log in (with your AO credentials, aka your email address & password you use here)
click the 'edit' button on any page you find
write what you think needs to be part of the article, click save and voilà - you're done - thanks for helping !

Every bit of information is helpful!

General notes and reminders:

You should first clarify if the thing you want to write about already exists! Give it a quick search and consider improving existing articles, before creating new ones.
If this is your first time editing a wiki, you might want to read the gamepedia help wiki. It has some tips on editing, formatting and general use of the wiki.
The Wiki we use is very similar (both are "media wiki") and almost everything should apply for our wiki as well.
For example:
If you don't know where something would fit, drop a line here and ask about it. Hopefully we can help sort things out.
If you just want to leave a suggestion or idea here, you can also just click reply to this thread now.
URL: wiki.albiononline.com/

We also have our own channel on the official Albion Online Discord!

You can join the discord server here.

.. from there you can message away in the #wiki-discussion chat. See you there

Bogul · Jun 17th 2018, 8:28am

The Albion Wiki has a few special rules that you should read here:

wiki.albiononline.com/wiki/Alb…ine_Wiki:Community_portal

Bogul wrote:

Wanted: Albion Wiki Community Editor

The Albion Wiki Project is looking for a few knowledgeable community members who want to join the Albion Wiki Project as an Albion Wiki Community Editor.

Who are you?

You are a member of the Albion Online community and you know a lot about the game mechanics of Albion, its quirks and its various other random fun details.
You are confident in using the English language to write and edit content for what is going to be the official Albion community knowledge resource: The Albion Wiki.
You have at least 8 hours per month of time to write new content, player guides and polish existing pages on the official Wiki.
You will actively contribute to the discussion and day-to-day on how to improve, maintain and moderate the Albion Wiki now and in the future.
Your perks and benefits:

You can directly influence the design, content and feel of the up and coming Official Albion Online Wiki.
You will have editor rights on the Albion Wiki.
You will have access to a direct communication channel with the Albion Online community team who run the day to day operations of the growing Albion Online community.
You will get a shiny special Wiki Editor tag on the Official Forums.
Upon successful completion of the 4 week trial period, you will get:

Access to the Round Table section on the official forums.
Special access rights on the Test Server to verify the various game mechanics.
As a token of our appreciation for your time, you will receive one (1) 10.000 Gold code per month to use however you wish!
Great ! How do I join?

Hop on the Wiki, start editing and join the the official Albion Discord (#wiki-discussion) and let us know that you are doing it! Show us what you can do.
Over the course of the next month you can get to know the rest of the team, read up on the current progress of the Wiki and familiarize yourself with what is happening.
As soon as we get to know each other and you pass the sniff test (and approval) of the Community Manager after about 4 weeks time, you will get the respective perks for the first time, and thus officially join the Albion Wiki Team team!
Note: We are currently looking for up to five (5) editors to join the team starting right now. This is part of the promotional effort to polish the Wiki together with the F2P release of Albion Online.

What are you waiting for? Let's get together and set up a proper Wiki for our favorite game

-- Bogul (Albion Wiki Admin)

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Official Resources

Official Sources & Websites

Other Official Sources

If you are still looking for a guild, make sure to keep an eye on the guild recruitment forum section of the official forums.

Guild Recruitment Forums

If you have a beginner question, there is a beginner question’s forum for you. Maybe your question was already answered?

Bogul · Jun 17th 2018, 8:30am

Previous Updates & Topics of the Week:
(most recent on the bottom)

topic of the week #1: Fishing
topic of the week #2: Resources
topic of the week #3: Faction Warfare
topic of the week #4 & #5: A New Domain Name & Gold Raffle(s)
topic of the week #6: GvG-Mechanics
topics of the week #7 & #8 & #9: Weapon Pages & Discord Channel
topic of the week #10: Add ALL the items to the Wiki
Update: October Progress Update & October Wiki-Contributors Contest
October Contributors Giveaway Winners Announcement
Call for Contributors: Announcement
November Wiki Contributors Announcement
December: Weekly-Wiki-Giveaway Series Announcement & Weekly-Wiki Giveaway #1: World Bosses
December: Weekly-Wiki Giveaway #2: Ganking
January: Weekly-Wiki Giveaway #3: New Player FAQ
January: Weekly-Wiki Giveaway #4: Territories
January: Weekly-Wiki Giveaway #5: ZvZ Mechanics
January: Weekly-Wiki Giveaway #6: Buildings
January: Guild Pages on the Wiki
March: The Wiki now has an interactive map!
April: Wanted: Albion Wiki Community Editor
June: Albion Wiki - June Update

A list of things that should be on the wiki, but arent or need more love :

please post in the thread below if you think there is something missing from the wiki and I will try to maintain a list of current to-do's here in this post!

If you feel particularly like writing about a subject or know a place where someone wrote something already, you can also just give it a go and write a tiny article or leave a link as a response to this thread and I will try to include it into the official wiki!

" the list of to-do's" (updated and revised in random intervalls)

list of all spells
list of all items
~~list of all weapons~~ edit: see here and here
list of mobs (waiting for the randomized dungeons update)
~~list of boss encounters~~ (World Bosses)
links to patchnotes
~~links to major patches~~ (Nimue)
entries for guilds (?)
entries for "famous" people (?) / devs (?)
a better how-to introduction (not completely done ; but some rules are here)
~~an updated main page of the wiki~~ (done, looks sexy)
cross-links to good "guide" artilces (Player Guides)
articles on game mechanics (need more suggestions!)
~~list of large community or guild discords~~ (need input)
~~pictures of gear~~ edit: here is an awesome resource
How resourse nodes spawn
Timers
T7-8 nodes spawn differently
Enchanting percentages
~~Siphoned Energy~~ (Siphoned Energy)
~~GvG mechanics~~ edit:GvG Mechanics & Ruleset
~~Warcamps - Sending attacks and pacifying~~
~~Sending attacks from territories~~
~~Retaliate/counterattack~~
Hellgate mechanics (needs more work)
Overview of the different open world zones (Blue, Yellow, Red, Black)
The Destiny Board (needs more work)
Gathering and crafting progression (needs more work)
Combat leveling progression (needs more work)
Learning points and the respec system (needs more work)
Focus points (needs more work)
Resource gathering (biomes) (needs more work)
Crafting stations (differences in return rates, taxes, food requirements)
The world map and mini map
~~Guild territories~~ (territories)
~~Resource terri's~~ (territories)
~~Farm terri's~~ (territories)
~~Town terri's~~ (territories)
~~Castles~~ (Castle)
Various weapons and their appearance at different tiers.
Various furniture items and their appearance at different tiers.
Various weapons and their appearance at different tiers.
resource node respawn times
City plots
Island plots (workstations)
IP
- Cluster reduction
- Effect on gathering gear
Resource bosses
~~GvGs~~
Warcamps
OW dungeons (PvP survival strategies)
Fame credit system

Stravanov · Jun 17th 2018, 9:28am

+1 for the initiative.

Albion Online could definately use an updated resourse for many core mechanics, since they seem to change a lot over time. Having to read through several pages of patch notes after having had a 2 month break from the game is kind of horrible. I can't imagine how frustrating it must be for new players to learn this game.

Stravanov · Jun 17th 2018, 9:57am

We could start by compiling a list of stuff that needs updated:

How resourse nodes spawn
- Timers
- T7-8 nodes spawn differently
- Enchanting percentages
Siphoned Energy
- How it spawns from mages in different continents
- Killing them
GvG mechanics
- Warcamps - Sending attacks and pacifying
- Sending attacks from territories
- Retaliate/counterattack

Bogul · Jun 17th 2018, 10:31am

Stravanov wrote:

We could start by compiling a list of stuff that needs updated:
...

Yes, thats the first thing I want to do. Just make a list of missing things so we can later tackle them one by one.

I hope everyone will chime in and just brainstorm a bit what is missing. I will add your things to the list for potential articles.

Bogul · Jun 17th 2018, 10:56am

The official guides section of the website has a lot of basic knowledge guides as well here:

albiononline.com/en/guides/

~~But it might be worth it to consolidate or cross-link those articles?~~

~~I'm working on moving all of the guides over so everyone can help adding and improving them. But this takes a while.~~ Edit: mostly complete

Cynsis · Jun 17th 2018, 12:13pm

Back in the days I made like 30% of the official wiki. There was a contest were you could win various prices, at the end of that event I won a 99$ founder key for the game

They might want to do this again to stimulate the proces.

Tilden · Jun 18th 2018, 4:21am

Stuff to add to the to-do list:

Hellgate mechanics
Overview of the different open world zones (Blue, Yellow, Red, Black)
The Destiny Board
- Gathering and crafting progression
- Combat leveling progression
- Learning points and the respec system
Focus points
Resource gathering (biomes)
Crafting stations (differences in return rates, taxes, food requirements)
The world map and mini map
Guild territories
- Resource terri's
- Farm terri's
- Town terri's
Castles

Windoen · Jun 18th 2018, 4:55am

like half of the weapons on the wiki aren't in the game, and 90% of the weapons in-game aren't in the wiki

there's an inconsistency with item background colors, as some of the t4 icons are purple

in the end you can't find anything you want to find in the wiki, rather just stubs

Nulfar · Jun 18th 2018, 10:03am

A wiki with everything in it is definitely needed.

I had to ask somebody who had T8 bows the other day to equip one for me so I could see the visuals.

I don't want to level something all the way to T8 just to realise I don't like the appearance of it but then I suppose we have no other choice.

Piddle · Jun 18th 2018, 3:11pm

Nulfar wrote:

A wiki with everything in it is definitely needed.

I had to ask somebody who had T8 bows the other day to equip one for me so I could see the visuals.

I don't want to level something all the way to T8 just to realise I don't like the appearance of it but then I suppose we have no other choice.

I appreciate your devotion to aesthetics.

Windoen · Jun 18th 2018, 5:34pm

Piddle wrote:

Nulfar wrote:

A wiki with everything in it is definitely needed.

I had to ask somebody who had T8 bows the other day to equip one for me so I could see the visuals.

I don't want to level something all the way to T8 just to realise I don't like the appearance of it but then I suppose we have no other choice.

I appreciate your devotion to aesthetics.

how come the wiki doesn't show you what the weapons actually look like

BriarMoss · Jun 19th 2018, 7:21am

Submitted my first wiki page. Still learning how to format and what to include.

albiononline.gamepedia.com/Ghostwolf

Nulfar · Jun 20th 2018, 6:17pm

BriarMoss wrote:

Submitted my first wiki page. Still learning how to format and what to include.

albiononline.gamepedia.com/Ghostwolf

Thank you.

This is exactly what we need.

The information and the images. It's that simple.

I guess it isn't that simple but hey, it can be done.

Bogul · Jun 30th 2018, 3:30am

slighlty updated the how to get involved section & fixed a typo

i'm still collecting ideas and trying to prioritize the efforts ; leave a comment or suggestion in this thread

Bogul · Jul 10th 2018, 4:35am

Over the next months ~~I will try to tackle a specific topic or feature every week or every other week~~. (edit: changed to monthly focus / topics)
I want to invite everyone to help out!
I will try to provide us with a starting point and I am hoping you guys can add feedback, corrections fix typos or provide me with advice how to improve the topic and the article of the week.
I have decided that as a first oder of business the first content I will tackle to get used to the wiki is fishing.

If you have any cool guides, information, helpful posts on the forums, videos - anything really .. please leave a link here in this thread!

I will leave a link to the main article I want to tackle this week here:

wiki.albiononline.com/wiki/Fishing

So far this entry is a heavy WIP (work in progress) entry and will contain placeholders and a lot of unfinished content and information.

Please add anything you think is relevant, simply by opening the page and clicking on edit on the top right!
If you want to be pro, you can sign-in on the top right of the page first, but you can also edit or fix minor things without logging in!

I will collect links to relevant topics & guides below so we can pick and chose what to put into the article.

I will try to update this list as I collect more info.

Cynsis · Jul 10th 2018, 11:31am

For the picture's, I know it was possible to get really nice onces out of the game or from the albion database's. But I'm not sure if they updated it.

H4n1baL · Jul 10th 2018, 3:24pm

Hey @Bogul!

I'd be willing to put in some time after work this week to contribute icons of this format (see attachments). If the database ones are good enough for you, tell me so I can focus on something else

- Lino

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