How to Use This WikiReport

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Site layout, search technique, article conventions and what the link colours mean. Three minutes and you will know where everything is.

This site is deliberately laid out like a traditional encyclopaedia, with navigation on the left, body text in the middle and an infobox on the right. Below is what each region is for, plus a few operations that will save you a lot of time.

Site structure

The fixed top bar holds three things: the site name (click it to return home), the search box, and the 🌓 theme toggle on the right. Your theme choice is stored in the browser and carries over to your next visit.

The left-hand navigation column has two halves. The upper half is the site-wide entry points:

• Home: portal cards by subject, featured articles and site-wide statistics.
• All Articles: the complete list grouped by subject, each entry annotated with its English original name. Start here when you are not sure what you are looking for.
• Category Index: articles listed by category tag. One article can sit under several categories.
• Sources: where the material comes from and how it is licensed, see Sources and Licensing.

The lower half is the subject portals (World and History, Factions, Races, Characters, Locations, Game Mechanics, Items and Equipment, Creatures and so on), each listing its own articles directly. The navigation column only shows the first few, and for the complete list you should use "All Articles".

When the screen is not wide enough (phones, narrow windows) the navigation column moves above the body text automatically, and infoboxes and images switch to full-row width.

Search technique

The search box matches as you type, but you need to know what it matches before you can use it well.

A few useful conclusions follow from that:

• English original names work. Typing Holy Nation and typing 聖國 both hit the same article, because the entry registers its English name and its aliases. When you cannot remember a translated title, type the English.
• Category names work as keywords. Typing a tag such as 派系, 宗教 or 奴隸 lists every article under that category, which does a subject filter in one step.
• Not found does not mean not written. A concept may be covered in a section of another article rather than having one of its own. In that case switch to "All Articles" and scan by eye, or work down through the internal links of a related major article.
• Earlier matches rank higher. The more precise your term, the more likely the result you want lands first.

What an article is made of

A standard article runs, from top to bottom:

1. Title bar: the article name, with the English original name and its subject in small text below.
2. Infobox: the table floating at the top right, holding the most essential fields (leader, capital, territory, race and so on), good for quick reference.
3. Bold summary: one sentence on what this article is. If you are in a hurry, this line is enough.
4. Table of contents: appears once there are three or more sections, and lets you jump straight to one.
5. Body: the narrative, in sections.
6. Sources box: the grey box listing the corresponding wiki pages and videos for this article, clickable for verification.
7. Category row: at the very bottom. Clicking any category jumps to the matching section of the Category Index.

Hovering over a section heading reveals a § symbol, and clicking it gives you a direct link to that section, which is handy for sharing a specific passage. Clicking an image opens it at original size in a new tab.

What the link colours mean

Red links are the normal state of an encyclopaedia, not a fault. They mean the concept is already planned here and already cited by other articles, but nobody has written the content yet. Clicking a red link does not produce an error page, it takes you to "All Articles" so you can find another route yourself, and hovering over it shows what that article was meant to be called. The fewer red links there are, the more complete the coverage.

How to read the callout boxes

There are three kinds of box in the body text and they mean different things, so do not read them interchangeably.

Separately, the quote blocks in the body (italic passages with a vertical rule on the left) are always quotations of in-game text, such as book aphorisms, character lines and item descriptions. That is the game speaking, not this site's judgement, and as Disclaimer and Lore Reliability notes, characters in the game lie a great deal.

Naming and translation conventions

• Article text is in English. Proper nouns use the original in-game names throughout, which is what the Kenshi community uses as well.
• Kenshi has no official Chinese release, so every Chinese title on this site is our own coinage. Where a translation is disputed the English original is authoritative, which is also why every article title carries its English name alongside it.
• Every article registers aliases, so the same page can be found in either language.
• Internal links use the Chinese article name as the shared key, written as The Holy Nation. To change the displayed text, write The Holy Nation.

A suggested reading path

For readers meeting Kenshi's setting for the first time, we suggest reading in this order:

1. The World of Kenshi: what kind of planet this is and why it looks like this.
2. History of Kenshi: the order of the two civilisational collapses.
3. The First Empire and The Second Empire: the source of every power that exists today.
4. Factions and Races: the contemporary landscape.
5. After that, follow your interest into a single faction (The Holy Nation, United Cities, Shek Kingdom) or a character article.

Readers who already know the setting and only want a particular dispute clarified should go straight to Disclaimer and Lore Reliability, and first work out which claims the game states outright and which the community has inferred.

See also

• Sources and Licensing
• Disclaimer and Lore Reliability