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Revision as of 02:52, 22 June 2011
Work in Progress: Comments & Edits Welcome
Introduction
For starters if you are reading this page it means you want to help with the wiki. Yay for you!
We are still very much unorganized, so contributing at this stage is important. I'm actually making all of this up as I go along. You can help decide how things are organized by joining the Wolfire Forums and discussing the crap out of how bad the wiki is and how it should be.
Now, the first step is to log in at the top right corner using your wolfire (does it need to be SPF?) login (if you have an underscore in your handle/alias/name you might have some trouble). Only after logging in can you then begin to contribute to the wiki.
Editing a wiki may seem like a daunting task if you don't know that much about modding, code or wikis, but it really only requires common sense to edit a wiki. No knowledge of code is needed. There are a few basic formatting markers but those are easy to pick up. It's more important to know how to communicate through your words than to code.
Remember the more you help, the easier it becomes for the next person to contribute and learn.
Learning by Example
Any wiki using the standard wiki engine will allow you to see its source, and so it's easy to learn how to create an awesome wiki: all you have to do is look at their code
You can do that by either clicking "Edit"/"Edit this page" or "Source"/"View source".
Useful Examples
This article is a stub. You should help Wolfire by expanding it.
Note: These examples were not picked for any reason apart from being educational resources.
- Wikipedia The Behemoth that started it all. Examine their extensive code at your own risk.
- Wikia Not one wiki, but a vast collections of wikis hosted in one location.
- A variety of cool Wikia Wikis:
Categories
There are many categories already available. and typos will add your page into another category. So double check and if you don't see any category that fits ask before creating your own. List of Categories
Here's are some help pages on categorization:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Overcategorization
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Categories
- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Category
Art
All art that is reposted/posted MUST have permission from it's creator. fan art thread
Please try and fill out the summary with some basic information about your art pieces. Here are the list of Categories that should go first (choose only one):
- Fan Art (if you took an artistic screenshot label it as fan art)
- Fan Music
- Fan Videos
- Icons
- Headers
- Screen Shots must have either a Tutorials (only if the picture has directions in it) or Modding category together with another category for the content of the picture ie Overgrowth, Lugaru, Photoshop, Blender . There is no need to include artsy screen shots either from Wolfire or one you took (and possibly enhanced) yourself. Place those instead into Wolfire Art or Fan Art with the game tagged.
- Textures (make sure to fill in the summary if you don't plan on writing an article explaining your texture)
- Wolfire Art (if it's part of a specific Wolfire universe add that after (ie Lugaru, GL Fighters, Overgrowth)
- Wolfire Music
- Wolfire Videos
After those three steps comes the last step, going over to either the concept art template or polished art template and adding a link to your photo there.
To include a file in a page, use a link in one of the following forms:
- [[Image:File.jpg]] to use the full version of the file
- [[Image:File.png|200px|thumb|left|alt text]] to use a 200 pixel wide rendition in a box in the left margin with 'alt text' as description
- [[Media:File.ogg]] for directly linking to the file without displaying the file
Games
- Black Shades
- GL Fighters
- Lightning's Shadow
- Lugaru
- Overgrowth
Help
Lore
- Characters
- Cats
- Dogs
- Rabbits
- Rats
- Wolves
- Weapons (anything lower than this point should be in a weapons page not a sub category. If you have a crucial detail for that weapon and there is no page, don't think you have to make an entirely new page. Add your words to the file's own page for example look at the staff. )
Modding
Portals
Wiki Contributors
Wolfire
Editing a Wiki Page
- ANYONE WHO UNDERSTANDS THIS SECTION PLEASE EXPLAIN IT MORE
Wiki Code
This article is a stub. You should help Wolfire by expanding it.
Here is the format that all edit code should start out with:
<!-- PRIVATE // Only displayed on this page, not transcluded on pages that use this template --><noinclude> <!-- Categories --> <!-- Constants --> <!-- Content --> <!-- --></noinclude><!-- INCLUDED // Not displayed on this page, only transcluded on pages that use this template --><includeonly><!-- Categories --> <!-- Constants --> <!-- Content --> <!-- --></includeonly> PUBLIC // Displayed on this page, and transcluded on pages that use this template Categories --> <!-- Constants--> <!-- Content -->
Links
To add links in your page you use:
to link to a page: [[page_name |Page Name]] == Page Name [[page name]] == page name [[Equipment and Weapons#Dog Weapons|Dog Weapons]] == Dog Weapons (inside the Equipment and Weapons page) to link to a category its important not to forget the colon ':' in front: [[: category: Wiki Contributors]] == category: Wiki Contributors you can also link to a special page by: [[special: Special Page]] == special: Special Page
Content Box
This article is a stub. You should help Wolfire by expanding it.
Contents are 'organized' by adding:
=={1}Intro==
=={2.1}Thing==
==={2.1.1}partOfThingOne===
==={2.1.2}partOfThingTwo===
=={3}OtherThing==
=={4}(actually no idea what this should be)==
...
...
...
- There is still no wolfire wiki convention yet to how you should organize your page. When it happens, though, please stick to the convention.
Templates
This Wiki makes extensive use of templates. Templates allow you to re-use Wiki code and allow for easy editing.
- SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS THIS STUFF SHOULD HELP ASAP
- This section should contain a more comprehensive tutorial on templates and how to build them.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_templates
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template
Example One
For instance:
<center>{{Wip}}</center>
adds
Work in Progress: Comments & Edits Welcome
In Category:Improvement Needed Templates there are a list of improvement templates. Open them up and see how they work. It will help you with understanding how to write you own.
Example Two
The to-do list template{{Wolfire Wiki To Do}} adds this: *REMOVED* (messes with the content browser)
Special Pages
This article is a stub. You should help Wolfire by expanding it.
- How can I limit the amount of content I want to show (ie only 15 recent changes or the most recent change per person)? - Conner36
{{Special:RecentChanges}} Adds the contents from the special page.
Be careful not to leave any spaces between the words.
Next Phase
Now goto to the Category: Wiki Contributors page and see whats happening with the wiki.
