This page provides information about the standards for spelling and capitalisation used on Unofficial Ryzom Wiki (URW). It covers some of the general guidelines used to determine the appropriate spelling and also provides a compilation of some of the most commonly misspelled words.
General
URW is written using International (a.k.a. British) English. Although contributions written in American English are still welcome, ideally those contributions will later be revised to match the site standards. Consistency is particularly important in an electronic medium such as the wiki: a search done for the word "armor" will miss any pages that instead use "armour". Redirect pages can be created using American spellings for particularly common words.
Note: Some in-game spellings use American English, such as the armour crafting titles and armour merchants
Ryzom uses many unique words and names. The spelling of all words should match the spelling used in the game, even if that differs from the common English spelling. When there is a discrepancy, the spelling seen by the player in the game, e.g. in dialogues and inventories, should be used in preference to any spelling seen only in internal identifiers and scripts found in the game files. Cases where multiple spellings of a word are known to exist are all listed later on this page.
Capitalisation should in general follow regular English rules. A few notable points are:
- In sentences, the first word and any proper nouns should be capitalised.
- In titles and subtitles, all words should be capitalised except for minor words that are not at the start of the title (prepositions such as of, from; conjunctions such as and, or; articles such as a, the; etc.).
- Any proper nouns from the game should be capitalised, e.g. Yrkanis.
- Any titles from the game (such as quest titles) should match the capitalisation used in the game, even if that differs from standard capitalisation.
- Compass points should be lower-case unless part of a title or proper place, e.g., due west, but West Blackburn Border Post.
Quotes
Any text directly quoted from the game should be copied verbatim. Typographical or grammatical errors in the text should not be fixed, unless the correction is absolutely necessary to understand the quote. The {{sic}} template can be used to emphasise that the error comes from the original in-game text. The word "sic" means "so" or "thus" in Latin, and is often used in newspapers or journals to indicate that a spelling or grammatical error was present in a passage of cited text and was not introduced in the paper's own article.
Proper Names
There are several cases where the names of specific items or places contain typographical errors. The spelling of proper names should never be changed; the wiki should exactly match the spelling as used in game.
Specific Words
This section provides a listing of words that are commonly misspelled on the wiki. This is not intended to be a comprehensive spelling guide: editors should use a standard dictionary to determine the appropriate spelling of common English words or use the search function for words specific to the Ryzom universe.