Help:Maintenance guide

This page describes how to maintain the wiki in the case of new release content, or weekly updates such as event schedules.

Weekly maintenance

The following needs to be done each week to keep the wiki current.

1. Update the Main Page event schedule
   • Edit Template:Main_page_calendar:
     • Move the schedule for the old week to Event calendar historical
     • Add the new week's schedule, by copying an existing week and modifying the details as needed
2. Track elite pack contents
   • Edit Elite pack tracking:
     • Fill in a row of the tracking table, giving the names of each elite pack in the vault this week
     • If any elite pack is new, add the list of its cards to the Elite pack card pools section

New release

When a game release is made containing any significant new content or changes, the wiki needs to be updated using the following steps.

1. Update the wiki's knowledge of which releases exist
   • Edit Template:Release list:
     • Add version number of the new release to the end of the list
     • Increment the first number (total number of releases)
2. Update the wiki's knowledge about the new release
   • Create a new release data template (e.g. Template:Release_data:_3.3) by copying an existing data template and modifying the details as needed
3. Update sets, abilities, planeswalkers, and events
   • If the release contains new game content, also follow the steps in the corresponding sub-section(s) below.

New card set

1. Upload a symbol for the new set
   • Follow the instructions at Template:SetSymbol for best results
2. Update the wiki's knowledge of which card sets exist, and which sets are in Standard
   • Add the new set and its ID to Template:Id to set
   • Add the new set and its ID to Template:Set to id
   • Edit Template:StandardSetList if a card set was added to or removed from Standard
   • Edit Template:LegacySetList if a Legacy card set was added, or a card set was moved to Legacy
3. Update the wiki's knowledge about the card set as a whole
   • Create a new data template for the set (e.g. Template:Card_set_data:_GRN) by copying an existing data template and modifying the details as needed
4. Update the wiki's knowledge of each card in the new set
   • (Server task) Upload card data templates for all cards in the new set
5. Create a wiki page for the new card set
   • Create a new page (e.g. Guilds of Ravnica) by copying an existing card set page and modifying the details as needed.
   • Other card set content, such as the card sets navbox (Template:Sets) and the card sets portal (Portal:Cards) will update automatically after the above changes are done.

New card abilities

1. Add new icon abilities to the wiki
   • For each new icon ability, upload an icon image and add a row (alphabetical order) to the table at Abilities#Card Icon Abilities
2. Add new keyword abilities to the wiki
   • For each new keyword ability, add a row (alphabetical order) to the table at Abilities#Card Icon Abilities

New planeswalkers

(coming soon)

New events

1. Update the wiki's knowledge about the event as a whole
   • Create a new data template for the event (e.g. Template:Event data: Tour de Ravnica) by copying an existing data template and modifying the details as needed
2. Update the Events navbox
   • Add a link to the event to Template:Events in the appropriate section
3. Update the Events portal
   • Add an EventTableRow (alphabetically sorted) to Portal:Events, giving the name of the new event
4. Create a wiki page for the new event
   • Create a new page (e.g. Tour de Ravnica) by copying an existing event page and modifying the details as needed