Europa Universalis 4 Wiki

[Meneth]

The Europa Universalis 4 Wiki contains significant information about the workings of the game. It convers numerous topics; everything from basic game mechanics, to a Beginner's Guide, to information on modding.

It can be visited here.

Anyone can contribute to the wiki. If you want to become a contributor please register (though you can also edit anonymously), and check out the work needed page. If you spot anything in use of improvement, don't hesitate to make an edit.
Adding strategy guides to country pages is also fair game, just make sure to read the style guidelines first.
To converse with other wiki editors on the fly, feel free to join the IRC channel.

Here's a list of some of the more important pages:

• Beginner's guide
• Countries
• Economy: Production • Tax • Tariffs
• Trade: Trade nodes • Trade goods
• Console commands
• National ideas • Unique national ideas
• Land warfare: Army • Land units
• Naval warfare: Navy • Naval units
• Government: Religion • Culture • Westernization
• Colonization
• Modding
• Patches
• Communities: Jargon

 

[MrQwerty]

The stickied "just the facts, ma'am" thread is a good resource, as well as the developer diaries. When I get the chance, I could start some pages .

 

[Meneth]

The stickied "just the facts, ma'am" thread is a good resource, as well as the developer diaries. When I get the chance, I could start some pages .

Yeah, that's a great resource.
Thanks for your future help

The wiki has its very first proper page now; a Map page. That can work as a template to some extent for how pages should work; as much information as possible, but little to no fluff. Images where relevant.

 

[irgendwas1984]

What is with this wiki -> http://www.paradoxian.org/hoi3wiki/Main_Page i always thought its the official from paradox :/

 

[Meneth]

What is with this wiki -> http://www.paradoxian.org/hoi3wiki/Main_Page i always thought its the official from paradox :/

Paradoxian is great, but not official. The issue with Paradoxian is that registration has been closed for a couple of years now, with no sign of it ever being reopened.

 

[Jayavarman]

Good.

 

[SweArdaia]

Maybe you can find a way to link your CK2 wiki with this one, like Paradoxian did with HoI2, 3, EU3 and Vicky 2. Would make navigation easier between the wikis

 

[Meneth]

Maybe you can find a way to link your CK2 wiki with this one, like Paradoxian did with HoI2, 3, EU3 and Vicky 2. Would make navigation easier between the wikis

Setting up interwiki links would be simple enough, yeah, or I could link the CKII wiki at the bottom; either would work fine I suppose.

 

[Meneth]

Maybe you can find a way to link your CK2 wiki with this one, like Paradoxian did with HoI2, 3, EU3 and Vicky 2. Would make navigation easier between the wikis

Setting up interwiki links would be simple enough, yeah, or I could link the CKII wiki at the bottom; either would work fine I suppose.

Right, the footer on each wiki now links to the other wiki. I've also set it up so it is possible to link to pages on the other wiki by using the eu4 and ckii namespaces.

 

[...............]

I would do a german wiki, if I knew how to do this.

 

[Meneth]

I would do a german wiki, if know how to do this.

My hosting space is limited, so there's not really room for that I'm afraid.

 

[...............]

Are a few pages really too much to host for? If it's not too much trouble for you...:unsure:

 

[Meneth]

Are a few pages really too much to host for? If it's not too much trouble for you...:unsure:

Well, I could make a namespace for it I suppose, rather than a subdomain. In that case it wouldn't take much space.

 

[Meneth]

Right, there's now a namespace for German articles. When creating a German article just search for Deutsch:"name", with "name" being the name of the article you want to create without the quotes. You should then be able to create the page.

 

[ryu2999]

Good work, Meneth, wil register and help out where I can.

 

[ThatJamesguy01]

I'll register and help out with a few of the pages when and where I can.

 

[Meneth]

The wiki now has pages on all of the countries that have been featured in dev diaries. The pages could use some expansion though; they're currently a bit basic.

 

[Raxstones]

Good idea starting a wiki this early. I'll register as soon as I have spare time to help writing pages! I hope this wiki will be kept more up to date since I was missing lots of things in the last wiki (eu3). Especially concerning the Divine wind expansion.

 

[Meneth]

Good idea starting a wiki this early. I'll register as soon as I have spare time to help writing pages! I hope this wiki will be kept more up to date since I was missing lots of things in the last wiki (eu3). Especially concerning the Divine wind expansion.

Yeah, starting early means it'll be much easier to update once the game releases, and also helps build search ranking so people can actually find it once the game comes out.
Unlike Paradoxian we won't be closing registration, though if spambots show up like they did for the CKII Wiki I might have to disable unregistered users from editing. Editing will always be possible for registered users though, and registering will always be possible, so it should be entirely possible for the community to keep the wiki up to date.

 

[Meneth]

There's now a Community Figure template for people who'd like to make user pages for themselves (or other people who might distinguish themselves in the community). An example of such a page.
There's also a rather rudimentary Country template. As more is known more will be added to it. The template can be seen in action here.