How to contribute to and use the wiki

Different versions; Playstation, Epic Games, Steam
With the release of the PC version we are starting to investigate on differences.

Please note:

The Wiki was made


 * to give newcomers the choice to discover Journey as fast or slow as they like. Guides and FAQs are in the making.
 * to provide tips on travelling together (disconnects and how the game looks for the other person) and
 * to catalog the not so obvious stuff in Journey (see: Expert Mode).

It seems that many glitches and tricks are still existent on the PC version and also on iOS. Playing on iOS without controller though, will probably make many glitches and tricks impossible.

The Wiki started with


 * covering the Playstation versions,
 * is being updated for the PC version
 * the iOS version is the least covered
 * information about Steam specifics will be added as soon as there is information available

Icons
Icons like this are rather new at the Wiki and still need to be implemented at articles. Work in progress. You can click on an icon to see its description, where its used and what it means.

Since a new version of Journey came out, the Wiki needs to adjust to that too. If not especially mentioned, PC icon will refer to the Epic Games version. Whenever differences are found out, we will mention them. Most things should work on Steam like they do on the Epic Games version (depending on personal setup). Ravingmadness (talk) 14:23, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

"Device checkmark" stands for: its verified for this version. Several people confirmed that it exists and/or proof in form of videos or images does exist. The article might mention that it "seems" to exist on other versions. This means there is not enough proof yet, to put the checkmark icon to it.

"Device" is used to: to mark articles or parts of an article that concern this specific version/device of Journey.

"Only" Icons: will be used to mark an article or part of an article as "this is known to exist only on this version/device". Since the PC and iOS versions are rather new, many things still need to be checked. There are glitches that were thought to not exist, but turned out to be just harder to accomplish on another version. If you got patience you can try get that thing on another version and report/edit to the wiki.

PS versions: The community investigated the differences for years.

will be used for things/tricks that are known to exist/happen, but need to be verfied for a certain version. The icon should be used to indicate, that specifics still need to be found out. If you know about the thing that is marked with this icon, you can contribute and edit your information to that article. The more people confirm stuff, the better.

This icon will be used to mark articles or parts of an article that are for investigations. Stuff that is known to happen, but the specifics to reproduce it are unkown.

Ancestor: Stands for all things concerning the Expert Mode. Everything marked with the Ancestor could be considered spoiler in the broadest sense.

Further icons concerning Expert Mode are explained here: The Difficulty Meter

Directions
The mountain or the end of the level is always North!!

Left / right is used when its from a specific point. "When looking towards x, then turn left".

Quotes on the Wiki
"We put a "Quotes" section in many articles. Those are like pinwalls for your funny sayings, theories or funny alternative names etc.

If you got serious alternative names we will make them into a redirect." Feel free to use the template:quote to state a personal view on the topic covered in that article. Please keep your quotes appropriate.

Videos and pictures
Since Journey is a very visual game, the Wiki heavily relies on YouTube videos and screenshots provided by Journey fanatics and community members. We would like to thank everyone that put time and work into making them.

The caption of a video just tells you on which version it was recorded.

Some tricks work only on a specific platform-version of Journey. If a certain trick works only on a certain console, it will mentioned.

Bugs, Glitches, OOB
If one of those works only on one version or is just non existent on another, we will mention it in the article (or at top of that article, work in progress).

If there is no specific device information, it means its not verified or tested on that device.

In this article information about things that concern only a specific version of Journey should be gathered.

Main articles
Some topics have their own gate/main article, it will


 * explain basics that you should know before reading the detailed articles about this topic and
 * provide links to articles about the topic and other useful links
 * looks like that:

Intro articles for newcomers

 * Guide: Your first journey and the following guides will also provide you with links to articles. The intention of this is to not overwhelm you with advanced things, when you are still learning how to travel the normal way.
 * How to play guide for Journey, controls, links to important items in Journey, general help on how to fly etc.
 * How to play together / connect with a friend, works best on PS3, less reliable on PS4 and PC. Please do not dust on too many random companions, they want someone to travel with too. This guide will also give tips on how to avoid to meet "the wrong person" when trying to connect with a friend.
 * Hints for the regularly travelling Wayfarer, on settings, remapping, getting started fast, savefile backups etc.

Any help is welcome.
Welcome editors!

The people working on this Wiki are organizing edits and discussing the "how to do things" at this Discord-server. Come to us and be part of the team!

Journey is an old game and most things are known, but maybe not mentioned on this Wiki yet. For general talks about Journey consider joining the Community Discord.

If you know you are going to just fix some typos, grammar or make text more understandable, just go ahead. Just keep in mind, that mass edits like changing a name or term on all articles without consulting the Wiki-team might cause extra work for all of us.

Its easy to assumed things in Journey, please make sure that you can proof/verify the information you are putting on this Wiki.

Whats needed?


 * Pictures of common places in and out of bounds
 * Spellchecking, making existing text more understandable..
 * Be a Journey-detective and help discovering, verifying and documenting Glitches.
 * many articles got created to show that "this exists", but specific explanation or videos are missing. Feel free to share your knowledge!
 * Fancy Flying needs experienced flyers to give tips for others. Two or three images of each Charge Boost point, best if you mark the exact spot in the image.

I got an idea, but don’t know how to start / don’t know if this is already covered or work in progress

 * Submit your thoughts and questions here: Community_portal or
 * talk to us directly on the Discord-server.
 * Contact the Guardian of this wiki, leave a comment here: UserProfile:ravingmadness,

since some pages are in the making but not linked yet. Just to avoid double work.

"I don't know how to edit / don't dare to"
This article will be expanded to help with basic editing. See below. The visual editor makes adding images and formatting text easy. You can easily swich between the visual editor and text editor by clicking the pen on the top-right corner while working on an article (save before swiching to the other).

Nothing can go wrong, even if you delete the whole text, it can be reverted. Also the admin see the recent changes and can check if anything is missing (like categories), putting a picture to a better place etc. Just do it! If you got something to say, hit the edit button and write your text, then save changes! :)

For testing the format and such you can put the article into the Category:Dump articles.

Please consider to deliberate with if you are going to do mass edits.

Feel free to add information to already existing articles. The talk page of an article can be used to discuss certain glitches.

You got a good tutorial video? Or even a list of them? --> categorize them, by putting the links into the according article. This way we will also get a tutorial video database...

”verification needed”
It may happen, that you write something that others didn’t know about. You might get asked to share where you got your information from, contribute an image or video. We want to make sure that the information given on this Wiki is verified by several people.

A bug might occur once or twice, but it doesn’t mean it happens every time, maybe a little thing is missing or not possible on another device.

If you are not too sure about something, but still want to write about it, get in contact with the Wiki team or just:


 * create the article, with the Template "Stub" and a fitting category.
 * create the talk page to that article and
 * link it on the main article with some basic info, mention that its still investigated

If you create a new article

 * help others to find your article: put it in one or more categories
 * everything needs a category, so it can be found again. Categories could be seen like folders in a file system. Please search and add the right Category for your article in the Category tree, see below.
 * check first if the thing you want to describe is already in the Wiki. Try some keywords and search or go through a certain category that you think could match your article
 * again, come to the discord!
 * Spoiler tag? If you think something is a spoiler or you want to give people the chance to choose if they want to see this, use the spoiler template. Better to use it too often than too little

Main Guidelines for editing on the Journey Wiki:

 * Keep newcomers save from advanced stuff (Glitch, OOB, Fancyflying, if not directly related to that article, also FPJ, zenjump), they may like to find out by themselves, exploring Journey or the Wiki itself


 * Guide users gently to advanced stuff. Provide links, so they have the choice to see it (put a warning or spoiler tag there)


 * Keep up the Journey spirit of “there are no mean companions”, like “do not lead first runs OOB”.
 * Help people to get to know how others travel and communicate. Saying “help them to be a good companion” is not appropriate, because everyone sees it differently. But there is a Journey etiquette to which many people stick to make the Journey for others also enjoyable. We will not force people to stick to it, but it could be helpful for those who want to know more about "how to travel with a companion". The variations are endless.
 * Common behaviors should be expanded by editors with their own behaviors they show to indicate certain things (break, happy, want to travel alone, what are we doing?, I don’t want that..). Other Journeyers can pick them up or at least have better guesses on what the other might “say”.


 * Since most of the knowledge about Glitches/OOB/Flying comes from longterm players, we would like to “honor” them by keeping the terms they used, redirecting other not so common names. Although this could lead to discussions about for example “why is zimcloak named after a player?”, because no one can be sure if there wasn’t another player finding it first.
 * Alternative names: generally, alternative names do not require a sub-header. Whether to use bullet points depends on how many alternative names there are. Three and fewer look better in a sentence (e.g. "White Cloak, also known as White Robe..." or "...it is also called Chinese Lantern or Mushroom." For longer lists bullet points are recommended in which case they should be included in the introduction rather than separately. // this has been discussed on 16 June 2020.

Adding a template
Via visual editor:

Via text editor:

How do I upload an image?

 * At the main page to the left side is a bar. If you scroll down you will find Tools --> Upload File.
 * If its a screenshot, choose "Its from the game or its official Homepage" at the copyright section
 * Choose one, better 2 or even 3 categories for your image. This helps to sort images and find them again or for users to just browse the category that they are interested in.


 * One category should be a subcategory of either Journey or Expert Mode, the second category should be chosen from the Media-branch in the category tree (see below).
 * Example-text for the text field (categories should be sorted in alphabetical order):
 * Thank you  for this image.
 * This image shows (optional)

Create a gallery for pictures and GIFs
If you have to show several pictures together, you might want to consider the use of a gallery for a better presentation. See an example below:

Which category should I add to my article or image?
Every page needs at least one category. Depending on workload the admins can take care of adding categories to your edits. If its about a bunch of pictures that you want to upload, its helpful to coordinate it first with an admin or the wiki crew.

You can lookup this: https://journey.gamepedia.com/Special:CategoryTree and see which category you find fitting for your image or article. Note: To see the full tree you need to start with the uppest Category:Journey Wiki. See image.

The wiki has two big branches in this tree:


 * Journey (to give a clean look and only basic information for newcomers) and
 * Expert Mode (advanced flying, OOB and Glitches, “spoiler things”). So everything just slightly revealing should be put somewhere in the tree under subcategories of Expert Mode.

This wiki has a media branch too, where only images and videos go. Its a safety net so no image gets lost, if the first category isnt very describtive.

Date format
Year-Month-Day (yyyy-mm-dd)

On some wiki pages you will find dates in "dd-mm-yyyy", "mm-dd-yyyy", or "yyyy-dd-mm" formats. Please change them to the format mentionned above for a better coherence!

Mentioning buttons and keys (movement, options, menu etc.)
Example: Press X to fly.

The game is played with


 * Controllers for PS3 and PS4
 * XBOX controller or other brands
 * Keyboard / keyboard and mouse

To do and warning

Some buttons on various wiki pages are referred to as "start", "select" or other.

These button names should be changed to "screen saver button" or "main menu button", considering that the controllers used on different devices have different button names.

Using "screen saver" and "main menu button" instead will make sense to every platforms on which you play Journey.

The same goes for the use of "left stick forward" for example, as there isn't any stick if played with a keyboard. You could use "move forward" instead, or anything that would make sense on all platforms.

Please be careful when renaming the correct buttons, as the X button for example could mean X on PS controller BUT Y on XBOX controller, depending on the platform for which the article was originally written for.

Overview about Controls, buttons used on each device on standard setting.