Boilerplate:Foundry mission article

This article provides information on starting, expanding upon, and completing articles about foundry missions in Star Trek Online.

Overview
To create a foundry mission article on STOWiki, it is necessary to perform the following steps:
 * 1) Highlight everything beginning starting just below the "Syntax" heading below down to just before the "Comments" heading. Either right click and select "Copy" or press Ctrl-C (or the equivalent keyboard shortcut for copy in your browser).
 * 2) In the search box, type the following (replacing the parts in italics with the reference information):
 * As an example:
 * 1) The page should not already exist. If not, you should see the following on the search results page:
 * Create the page "Foundry:The Syndicate Extraction (ST-HA29RR56G)" on this wiki!
 * 1) Click on the title to open the new page for editing.
 * 2) Either right click and select "Paste" or press Ctrl-V (or the equivalent keyboard shortcut for paste in your browser).
 * 3) The syntax you've just pasted provides instructions for what information needs to be filled in where. Simply replace the descriptions of what information to add with that information.  Some parts may not apply and can be simply deleted.
 * 4) If you are not familiar with basic wikicode, you may wish to open the following page in another tab or browser window: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting
 * 5) Try to remember to preview your results before saving to avoid having to constantly reopen the page for editing and saving repeatedly. While wiki editors do tend to be understanding about forgetting to preview (many experienced editors are still very bad about it), saving a page an excessive number of times in a short timeframe is frowned upon.
 * 6) It can be helpful to other editors if you put a short description of what you're doing (i.e. "Creating a page for my foundry mission") in the summary box, but this is not necessary.
 * 7) When you are done, click the "Save page" button at the bottom.
 * 1) When you are done, click the "Save page" button at the bottom.

When you need to edit the page again, navigate to your foundry page. You can do so by repeating step 1 above, following a link from Foundry:Portal, or following a link from Foundry:List of missions. Links to your mission page should be automatically placed on those two pages once your page is initially created, but this may not happen immediately. Once at your page, simply click the edit button that appears at the top of the page.

Note: We are waiting for the installation of a wiki extension that will streamline the process of getting the syntax below onto new foundry mission pages (as well as other pages of the wiki). Until then, it is necessary to manually copy and paste this syntax onto new pages as per the instructions above.

Syntax
Right at the beginning of the article give a one- or two-sentence abstract what this mission is about. E.g.: "In Mission Title the player liberates a Federation Outpost from a Klingon siege."

Synopsis
Describe the story of the mission in your own words. Write from a third-person perspective about what the player encounters. Do not address the player directly using second-person pronouns. The Synopsis should be more elaborate than the abstract and cover all steps of the mission. Do not limit the synopsis to objectives, instead concentrate on giving background and story information. It is also permissive to describe the mood and setting of the mission. You can create links to sub-articles of your mission (like an NPC) using the convenience template. links to canon articles are created by putting the name of the article in brackets, such as starship and Federation. For canon Star Trek references, not found on STOWiki.org, but Memory-Alpha.org, use the template.

Mission text
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Objectives

 * Name of First Objective
 * Name of Second Objective
 * etc...


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Ugcinfo template
Use the template to create the info box.

Abstract
In the beginning of the article put one or two lines that describe, what the mission is all about (plotwise). A more elaborate synopsis follows.

Synopsis
This should be written like an synopsis for an episode guide. This paragraph should be covering the whole mission and not only focus on objectives and gameplay, but primarily the story that is told. When you need to refer to the story protagonist, call him or her "the player" and try to use a gender neutral sentence structure.

Outline
The outline is the place for the point-of-view looking at the objectives of the mission. It's a concentrated summary of what your mission journal and objectives window is displaying.

Mission text
Using the missiontext template as above, copy the exact wording of the introductory text explaining the mission, at which point the player is to accept or decline the mission.

Goal
Using the missiongoal template as above, copy the exact wording of the mission's goal, which is displayed in green within the game (as well as in the mission article itself).

Objectives
This is a bulleted list of the objectives for this mission, copied verbatim from within the game's mission log.

NPCs
This covers all selectable NPCs in the game world (including turrets and other inanimate objects) as well as off-the-map NPC contacts (like a calling Captain in a space mission). Group the NPCs based on the in-game info window.

NPC starships
The same as NPCs, but this time not individuals and ground forces, but starships.

Walkthrough
The walkthru template will automatically determine if there is an existing Walkthrough sub-page (e.g. Mission: Name of Mission/Walkthrough), and add a link to it, giving the player a chance to view mission information without being immediately spoiled by the ending of the mission and how to complete it.

Remember to include the template at the top of all walkthrough pages and all other pages related to your foundry mission.