Grismar's EVE Wiki : WritingForIGB

Writing wiki articles for the IGB

If you target your wiki articles at the IGB, there's a couple of extra features you may want to use. This articles explains how to do it and what not to do.

Recommended reading: IngameBrowser

Can I see your ID?

Everything, from a star to an individual assembled civilian gatling gun in EVE has a unique identifier. There's 2 kinds of identifiers: type identifiers and object identifiers. For instance, the type 'character' has an identifier 1373 and the character Grismar has an identifier 795973679.

Together you can use type identifiers and object identifiers to let the reader open info windows and to display images from the ingame database. For instance, the line:

{{image alt="Grismar's Info" title="Grismar" url="portrait:795973679" link="showinfo:1373//795973679"}}

You get: (click it)

Most of the times though, you'll be interested in the type identifier alone. For instance to refer to Kestrels in general, you don't need to refer to a specific kestrel. So, using:

Kestrels {{image alt="Kestrels" title="Kestrels" url="images/info.png" link="showinfo:602"}}

You get: Kestrels (click it)

So, where do these identifiers come from. Well the devs released a lot of data when Exodus was released. A lot of this data has gone into websites, including http://eve.grismar.net/showinfo, which you can use to lookup the identifier of a specific type.

Pictures

As you can see, it is also possible to use pictures from the ingame database. You can use the following ingame links to get the pictures:

• typeicon:typeID
  Given a type identifier, as obtained on http://eve.grismar.net/showinfo, this will show the icon for it, if you use it as the filename of an image.
• portrait:characterID
  Given a character identifier, which you can find on the forums, by looking at the URL that leads to someone's portrait, this will show an icon of that portrait.
• corplogo:corporationID
  If you can manage to find a corporation's id (for instance by getting it from the header that is sent to the IGB from a trusted page), this will show the the icon for it.
• factionlogo:factionID
  Same as the corplogo, but for a faction.

More tricks

There's a couple more tricks like this, you can read more about what you can do in the preliminary IGB documentation.