Help:FAQ

This is the FAQ page for Xeno Series Wiki. It doesn't really have any actual "frequently-asked questions"; it's more a guess as to what questions are likely to be most relevant to new users.

What is this place?
This is a wiki (publicly-editable encyclopedia) focused on the Xeno series (a loosely-related series of video games that happen to share themes and a title that starts with "Xeno").

Isn't there a pretty complete wiki about this series already?
There are such wikis on the Wikia/Fandom wikifarm. They are much older (and more complete) than we are, that is true. But a lot of people don't like how Wikia/Fandom runs things, while others just like the idea of an independent wiki better anyway.

How can I help?
As of this writing, the main page has links to a few maintenance categories such as the list of stubs (shorter-than-they-should-be articles), which have been pre-tagged as "this is known to need help". But you could just wander around, clicking links or typing in the search bar, until you find a page you feel like contributing to.

Can I take stuff from the Wikia/Fandom and add it here?
We'd rather you not, if only because when search engines see two identical blocks of text, they'll probably prefer the older one (i.e. not us). Official art is probably fine, though it'd be nice if you could get it from the original source instead.

How come it seems like [this game] has so many more pages/content than [other game]?
Most editors will only have enough knowledge to contribute to the pages on one or two games of the series, and they are likely to be biased towards the most recent entries. That's just how it is unfortunately.

I want to fill in some info, but all these templates use funny numbers instead of useful text, what do I do?
If the game in question is well-researched enough, we might set our templates to take the actual numbers from the game as input, which results in this. The template's documentation should explain where its values come from. If you still don't understand, you can always reach out to a knowledgable editor for help.

The light hurts my eyes. Can you darken the skin?
If you create an account, you can enable a dark theme in your preferences. It even comes in both Monobook and Vector flavours.

You spoiled me! Why didn't you have a spoiler warning?
We do. It's at the top of every page on the wiki unless you log in and explicitly click the "dismiss" link. It's not worth our time to read over every page on the wiki and decide what is or isn't worthy of a spoiler tag. (For more details, see: XSW:SPOILERS)

I uploaded a new version of an image, but it didn't change, or is now stretched. What gives?
The website shouldiblamecaching.com explains.

More seriously, your browser is basically assuming that images don't change, and so only ever shows you the old version instead of asking the wiki what the new version is. Usually this is a good thing, but in this case you want to re-download the image. You can do this with a "hard refresh" or "cache clear", and is usually done by holding Ctrl (or equivalent) and hitting the refresh button. See Wikipedia's page on the subject for more details.