General Guidelines |
Page Editing |
The Editing Guidelines contains guides to structuring articles and some overall rules which should be followed by editors to ensure consistency.
For more basic information on how to edit a Fandom Wiki, please see Help:Editing.
For rules regarding the discussion boards, please see the Forum Guidelines.
General
- This is an English wiki—all pages added should be written in English. Adding bits of Korean text or that of other languages for things like Cookie names, voice actors, etc. is allowed.
- Information on this wiki should be fact-based; please refrain from adding personal opinions. Headcanons and other personal beliefs on characters can be posted in the characters' page comments sections or in the wiki forum.
- Please try to add a description note to new edits to help others identify the contents of the edits (at least for significant and/or sudden edits). These may be brief.
- Edits should always expand and improve the wiki. Please do not remove information from pages unless it is factually wrong or unnecessary.
- All edits are privy to the wiki staff's review and scrutiny. If an edit proves to be lacking, unnecessary, or malicious, it will be reversed.
- Additions should be consistent across all pages in a category. If this proves too much work, please contact a staff member for assistance.
- Under no circumstances may generative AI be used to write the original text content of this wiki, such as character appearance and personality descriptions.
- Comments containing swears or personal attacks of any kind will be edited to conformity or entirely removed. Please be kind and considerate to your fellow wiki users and contributors!
Adding Missing Information
Currently, there are many pages with bits of information missing. This comes in the form of labels like TBA as well as ? and x. This information can generally be obtained in the game itself depending on if a player has certain Cookies, Treasures, Toppings, items, building upgrades, and so on.
- Please assure all information added is factual and taken directly from the game or from official outside sources (such as social media).
- When adding stats information, make sure the numbers you have are not affected by leveling or upgrades.
- Quotes should be added as-is. This means that any text that explicitly includes spelling or grammar errors should be added with these errors intact. Such errors should be marked with "(sic)" (written as
{{Sic}}in source code.) - When referring to and categorizing a character, please refrain from using gendered language (male/female/other, man/woman/other, etc); as Cookie Run characters do not have explicitly stated genders, the wiki categorizes them by their pronouns rather than applying genders to them.
- Please note that many characters canonically use pronouns other than he/him and she/her, such as they/them and it/its. Do not apply more masculine or feminine language to these characters in their wiki articles, as it will be removed. Usage of incorrect pronouns outside of wiki articles (such as on the forum) will lead to the user being gently notified and corrected on the character's correct pronouns, and continuous usage of incorrect pronouns may elicit actions against a user.
- When writing in an article about a character that has no known pronouns, editors may use they/them pronouns for brevity and ease of writing.
- Trivia and other informative segments should begin with the subject's name instead of the appropriate pronoun (i.e. "Parfait Cookie's song..." instead of "Her song...")
- Please limit any trivia relating to a Cookie's voice actor's previous roles to the dedicated voice actor pages rather than the Cookie's page itself.
Adding Pages
When creating a new page, it is important to follow the structure of existing similar pages should that be possible.
- Make sure the page is as complete as possible in one go.
- Do not create blank pages or pages with very little content (such as less than a sentence's worth of text).
- Pages for new Cookies will be created upon release. Refrain from making pages for these Cookies before they are officially added to the game or announced.
- If you have information for a new page but lack to skill or confidence in coding the page, message a staff member for assistance.
- Please use existing pages and their templates as frameworks of reference when creating new pages.
Gallery/Images
- All images added to the wiki should relate to Cookie Run: Kingdom and be educational in nature. Please do not upload memes/edits of Cookie Run characters, personal screenshots from your game that aren't intended to be displayed in an article, or any pictures meant only to decorate one's user page. Such images will be removed.
- The wiki itself is also not the place for fanart; please refrain from uploading any as it will be removed. Fanart is welcome to be posted in the wiki's discussion boards under the Fanart category.
- If a user wishes to display an image on their user page that has not been and cannot be uploaded directly to the wiki, they may "embed" the image in the page by pasting a link to the image, which will render a preview of it on the page.
- Make sure you do not upload duplicate files. If you find a duplicate image or accidentally add one yourself, you can either delete the duplicate or contact a staff member to have it deleted.
- Please upload only high quality, non-blurry images.
- Uploaded images should be as close to official as possible, meaning that, ideally, they should be ones officially handed out by Devsisters or ones coming straight from the game's files. As this site's staff has access to Cookie Run: Kingdom's files, images will very rarely be inaccessible to the team—if any images are missing, it is likely that staff members simply have not gotten around to uploading them yet.
- In the very rare instances in which the original version of an image is inaccessible, edited "restorations" of screenshots are permitted so long as these edited images meet the wiki's high quality and accuracy standards. Note that these instances generally do not apply to game assets and pertain more to promotional media for the game and series.
- Images and other information related to leaks should not be added and will be swiftly removed. Please wait until such content is officially released before adding it.
Spine Animation Export Guidelines
Please note that all animated/GIF exports of Spine game files must fit certain standards before being permissible in galleries. These benchmarks are the following:
- Entirely or mostly cropped to the export's pixel contents (in other words, no GIFs with large amounts of unnecessary empty space)
- Non-compressed/free of artifacting
- Properly scaled in the file's initial import
- Single-animation files, not all/multiple animations in a single GIF
- Multisample AA: 8x (this applies to PNG exports as well)
- As close to 100% in export size as possible while abiding by Fandom's file size limits
- Colors: 256
- Color dither: 50
- Alpha threshold: 10
- Alpha dither: 40
- Quality: 10
- FPS (frames per second): 60
- Not screen recordings
For animation sets which use concurrent animation that cannot be exported (such as the overworld animations of 
Moonlight Cookie, 
Sea Fairy Cookie, 
Mystic Flour Cookie, and 
Burning Spice Cookie), exporting the animations without the concurrent "effect" animations is permissible; however, please leave an instance of Template:Clarification above the animations' collapsible which notes this and clarifies what is missing from the animations. The solo instances of concurrent-type "effect" animations (such as shadow_mix and blink) do not need to be exported.
Templates
We have created several templates to make it easier to add items to pages. Templates can easily be added to a page by typing two open curly braces and then the name of the template (template names are often case-sensitive):
{{TemplateName...
A dialogue will appear and you can select which template you want to use. Once a template has been selected, common parameters will be available to enter via a simple user interface.
Cookie Templates
Use these templates to render Cookie images:
- {{CookieHead}} or {{Ch}} (for head icons)
- {{Cookie card}} (for card images)
- {{Soulstone}} (for Soulstones and Soulcores)
- {{CookieSkillicon}} or {{Csi}} (for their Skills)
You can add "|icononly=true" to the code so that only the icon renders, without linked text to follow it.
Premade Icon Templates
Most in-game items have their own icon templates on the wiki. Type "{{Icon_____}}", with the desired item in the blank, and you should be able to find the icon you need! Please add "?" if the amount is unknown so that other contributors know to enter the info if they have it.
Some items (such as Star Jellies, Skill Powders, Toppings, Speed-ups, and Sugar Crystals) are covered by a single icon template, and must be specified via the "type" parameter to render the correct item.
Examples:
{{IconCoin|amount=200}}
Enemy Template
For the Enemy template you only need to include the title parameter. If you enter a title of "Cake Wolf" this template will look for the file: Enemy_cake_wolf.png. NOTE: Title should be entered in "Title Case" it will be lower-cased automatically to adapt to the filename. If you find a file that you need does not have the proper formatting, let admins know and we will make it work.
Example Source:
{{Enemy|title=Cake Wolf}}
Base Icon Template
If you need to create an Icon template, you only need to include the title parameter and, optionally, the "amount". If you enter a title of "Roll Cake Wood", the template will look for the file Icon_roll_cake_wood.png. Your text will be lower-cased automatically to adapt to the filename. If you find a file that does not have the proper formatting, let the Administrators know, or create a redirect from the missing filename to the correct image.
Image Template
This is a lower-level template and should only be used if one of the specialty templates above does not suit your needs. Templates like {{Icon}} and {{Enemy}} include this lower level template.
We prefer that you use the image template as opposed to simply clicking the image embed icon in the visual editor. Using the image embed icon leaves many empty fields in the image code; by default there is no title text, no alt tag, and it links to a larger version of the image as opposed to the appropriate wiki page -- don't worry if the link goes to a page that does not yet exist, it will!
Using the image template defaults many of the desired items with only two parameters, "filename" and "title."
Example Source:
{{Image|filename=Landmark big squishy visitor.png|title=Big Squishy Visitor}}
Other common templates
- {{TreasureIcon}} (for Treasures)
- {{MaterialIcon}} (for goods and materials)
- {{Status}} (for buffs/debuffs)
More To Come...
We are always working on more templates to make it easy to add content. You can check out the wiki's style guide and page formatting guide for further guidance on page creation as well as Professor Peanut's page guides for a list of wiki-standard page layouts and active notice templates. If you have any suggestions, please let us know in the forums.