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MapleClassic Wiki is a fan-built encyclopedia for MapleStory Classic World, the classic edition of MapleStory developed by Nexon. Classic World is a brand-new official version that revives the early, pre-Big Bang MapleStory experience long-time players remember, now officially released with the Grand Launch of October 21, 2026. The wiki documents its monsters, items, maps, quests, NPCs, jobs, skills, and music. It aims to be the answer when a player asks "what is X" or "how do I get Y". This page covers what the wiki is for, what's in scope, how it's structured, and how to contribute. Contents 1 What this wiki covers 2 Editorial principles 3 Multilingual support 4 How the wiki is structured 5 How to contribute 6 Technical foundation 7 Content and copyright 7.1 Reusing the wiki 8 Community What this wiki covers MapleClassic Wiki is focused on one game: MapleStory Classic World, Nexon's official classic edition. Modern (post-Big Bang) MapleStory and the various fan private servers that recreate older MapleStory are out of scope here. The reason is straightforward: Classic World is a single, well-defined target, and a wiki that tries to cover every version and server at once ends up doing none of them well. As Nexon patches Classic World, the wiki records each update. What you'll find: Monsters: stats, drops, spawn locations, behavior. Single canonical page per monster. Items: equipment, consumables, and the rest. Stats, requirements, where to buy, what drops them. Maps and regions: towns, hunting grounds, dungeons, world regions. Connections, monsters present, recommended levels. Quests: full walkthroughs with infoboxes, prose steps, and interactive quick-guide subpages you can tick off as you play. NPCs: who they are, where they stand, what they do, the quests they're tied to. Jobs and skills: the four classic branches, their advancement paths, and per-job skill trees. Music: every track in the OST, with playable previews where the file is uploaded. Calculators: interactive Lua-driven tools for what players actually want to compute, like XP/hour, profit/kill, gear comparison, and training routes. Editorial principles These are the rules that separate a useful game wiki from a sprawling fan database. They're enforced both by the page templates and by editor convention. Data lives in one place Every structured fact (a monster's HP, an item's price, a quest's giver) is stored once, in a Cargo table. Pages display that data via templates. When the game patches, an editor changes one row, not forty pages. Templates over prose for repeatable structure If the same kind of information appears on more than three pages, it gets a template: infoboxes, drop tables, stat blocks, requirement boxes, navboxes. Pages become thin shells around structured data plus genuinely page-specific prose. Calculators are first-class content Players want answers, not just facts. Anything involving math gets an interactive calculator that reads the wiki's own Cargo data; the player supplies only their personal inputs. Search is the front door Most readers arrive via Google, land on one page, get an answer, and leave. Every page is written for that visit: the title is what players actually search for, the infobox is top-right, and the first sentence is a definition, not lore. Citations and update tracking Every data-bearing template has a game_version field. After a patch, the wiki can be queried for stale data instead of eyeballed page-by-page. Bots do the boring work Bulk page creation, post-patch updates, broken-link sweeps, and category maintenance are all bot jobs. Import scripts are infrastructure, not throwaway. One canonical page per entity Disambiguation pages where names collide. No "X (item)" vs "X item" duplicates. Redirects for common misspellings and search phrasings. Multilingual support The wiki is written in American English. It is monolingual: page translation was retired in August 2026, because MapleStory Classic World runs inside the Global MapleStory client and its readers are overwhelmingly English-speaking. Structured data (names, descriptions, dialogue) is stored as parallel name_en, name_ko, name_zh, name_ja fields in the Cargo tables. name_ko is the one that still does work: it generates the Korean-name redirects that let a reader searching in Korean reach the English article. How the wiki is structured Every entity type has a canonical page model documenting the structure new pages should follow: Map page model Region page model Monster page model Item page model Quest page model Quest quick guide page model NPC page model Shop page model Job page model Skill page model Music track model If you're creating a new page, start by copying the wikitext from the relevant model. The model's section conventions match what infoboxes and Cargo queries expect. How to contribute The wiki is open to edits from any registered account. For the practical mechanics of editing, see How to edit; for prose conventions and what to write, see the style guide. Fixing a fact: find the right Cargo row (usually in the page's infobox) and edit it. The change propagates to every page that displays that data. Writing prose: keep it concise. The first sentence of every page is a definition, not lore. Creating a new page: copy the canonical wikitext from the matching page model, fill in the infobox, add body sections as needed. Bulk imports: coordinate with maintainers first. Mass page creation runs through import scripts with a staged dry-run review before anything is published. Cross-references to other entity pages should use the link templates, not bare wikilinks: Entity type Template Example Monster {{m|name}} {{m|Snail}} Item {{i|name}} {{i|Red Potion}} Map {{map|name}} {{map|Ellinia}} Region {{region|name}} {{region|Victoria Island}} Quest {{q|name}} {{q|Path of the Magician}} NPC {{NPC|name}} {{NPC|Grendel the Really Old}} Job {{j|name}} {{j|Thief}} Skill {{s|name}} {{s|Magic Claw}} Shop {{Shop|name}} {{Shop|Henesys Apothecary}} Music track {{music|name}} {{music|When the Morning Comes}} Any other page {{a|name}} {{a|Crafting}} Each one links straight to the target page and shows the entity's name. Technical foundation MapleClassic Wiki runs on MediaWiki 1.43 LTS with the following extensions: Cargo: structured data tables and queries Scribunto (Lua 5.1): calculators and complex template logic CirrusSearch (Elasticsearch): full-text search with case-insensitive matching, typo tolerance, and stemming, since search is how most readers arrive Popups: the hover-preview cards that pop up over wikilinks ParserFunctions, VisualEditor A custom MapleWiki extension providing the parser tag (used by map and music track infoboxes to embed playable audio) Page content, templates, and Lua modules all live on the wiki itself, with full revision history available through each page's history tab and Special:RecentChanges. The custom MapleWiki extension and the server configuration are maintained separately from the wiki. Content and copyright MapleStory is a trademark of Nexon Korea. Game sprites, item icons, music files, and other audiovisual assets are property of Nexon and are used here for identification and documentation purposes only. In-game text (quest dialogue, item descriptions, NPC monologue) is paraphrased or described, not reproduced verbatim. Brief quotations for context or flavor are fine; reproducing significant chunks of in-game writing is not. When in doubt, paraphrase. Original wiki content is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license, the one named at the foot of every page. It covers page prose, strategy notes, calculators, tooling, and the data in the wiki's Cargo tables. By editing a page, you agree to release your contribution under those terms. Reusing the wiki You may reuse the wiki's content and data under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. In short: Credit: name MapleClassic Wiki, link each page you reuse to the wiki page it came from, and say if you changed it. No commercial use: you may not reuse it to make money. The wiki counts ads and paid access as commercial use. Share alike: whatever you build from it carries the same license. The license does not cover Nexon's sprites, icons, and music, which belong to Nexon. Two requests, beyond what the license requires: Build from the game client. Most of the wiki's data was extracted from the client and checked against it. Please extract it yourself and write your own pages, rather than copying the Cargo tables or articles wholesale. Drop data is the one part the client doesn't hold: it comes from the wiki's own testing and player reports. Report what you find wrong. If your data and ours disagree, tell us on Discord so both get fixed. This wiki is not affiliated with Nexon or any official MapleStory operation. It is a fan project. Community The wiki's community lives on Discord. That's the place for chat, questions about editing, bug reports, feature requests, and reaching the maintainers. Anyone is welcome to contribute. Page edits, bug reports, and bulk-import help are all appreciated.