Wiki Guide/Story Pages

More information is forthcoming. For now if unsure about anything, please come join us on the A3! Wiki Discord and check the pinned notes in the #wiki-discussion channel. Questions are very welcome.

Page Titles

• Main Story: Act Act Number/Episode Episode Number, eg. Act 3/Episode 2
• Mini Conversation: Mini Conversations/Character Name/Event or Practice Lesson Name, eg. Mini Conversations/Sakuya Sakuma/Boy Alice in Wonderland
• Backstage Story: Character Name/Card Name, eg. Omi Fushimi/Surprise Broccoli
• Event Story: Event Name/Episode Episode Number, eg. Nocturnality/Episode 1

Backstage Story Formatting

These are formatted differently than Event and Main story pages. See Template:Backstage for information.

Main and Event Story Formatting

When creating a Main or Event Story episode page, you'll see a "Load boilerplate" section above the editing box. Select the applicable template and press load. This gives you the preformatted page, so all that needs to be done is adding the text.

The default title is the episode number eg. Episode 1 - if you want to put in your own title eg for epilogues, that goes after |episode=. All the story and dialogue goes after |content=. Instructions are also written in the template itself when it loads.

To make formatting the story easier, we now have a web page to help with converting lines into Wiki format:

• A3! Wiki Translation Converter

Some templates for lines that can be used:

• Template:Line — A blank line ({{Line}}) should be used where a break in action/fade to black occurs.
• Template:Line/LIME — Use where a LIME message/conversation appears onscreen in the game. Template page contains more information.

Images

• Template:Line/Image — If a CG or a significant image appears, use this template to add the file. If the image appears at the same time as a piece of dialogue in the game, the image should be placed before the dialogue on the story page. See template for more detailed information.
• We are hoping to get screenshots in story pages as well. A screenshot should be included when a scene changes, a major character appears, or when an important image (eg. the plush toy in Winter Story) pops up on screen. This is mostly up to the translator's discretion to decide how many screenshots are necessary and where.
  • Example: Nocturnality/Episode 1
  • Screenshots should be named following: Story Name Episode #-##.png eg. Nocturnality Episode 1-01.png
  • Recommended image width for screenshots is 800px wide.
  • PNG format is preferred.

If you added any translator notes, add {{Notes}} between </table> and the Translator Credit, which goes at the very bottom.

You're done!

Alternate Translations

We welcome alternate translations for stories! The way to do this for Main and Event stories is simple:

• Get your translation formatted and ready according to the guidelines above. Having it in a separate Notepad document somewhere helps!
• Add =Translation 1= to the top of the page above the existing translation. You only need to do this if you're adding the second translation! If the header is there already, don't worry about it.
• At the bottom, add =Translation 2= (or 3, or 4, etc.) and copy/paste your formatted translation.
• Important: If you're adding Translation 2, you need to put <headertabs/> at the bottom of the page.
• See an example here: Prologue