Talk:Main Page
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I have had some good thoughts about this project, and I think it would be great if we could get some kind of dialogue going about what is important to this wiki's success. The long-term goal should be for the community to establish some kind of solution to the following inherent problem. I foresee an uncontrolled wild grow of pages about clans and individual players. Although this might not be such a problem in the beginning phase of the project, in the long term it will form a significant burden:
a. If every clan and players has his own page it will be extremely hard to guarantee the quality of every page. Not every clan will put enough effort into their page making it worthwhile for the wiki. Especially individual playernames have no significant value to the core principles of this wiki.
b. Although nobody likes to see it, sometimes people don't like each other in-game. This isn't such a problem as long as it stays in-game, but having a wiki with individual player-pages makes it tempting to continue the in-game trouble out here. It's a plausible thought this could cause a significant amount of vandalism, resulting in time-consuming corrections which mean less time for the actual improvement of the wiki.
c. I think clanpages will mainly be functional if we develop some kind of organized and structural way to present the factual data. I believe we all agree that pages boasting about the uber pwnage godlike skills don't mean much of an improvement to the wiki. Things like leaders, members, website and clan-events however could be very informative to the entire community. Azon 15:18, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
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Torch
I myself agree with points a and c, and see no possible treat from b. My suggestions about the structure of clanpages:
- Clan name, motto
- Founders, short history, philosophy ( what games do they play, etc )
- Members list, 2-3 sentences per member ( optional )
- Clanwars ( list of results )
- Contact ( mail, forums, irc )
And another thing I thought is that instead of lots of seperate version pages, merge them into one big topic, something like a developement roadmap, with target-links to each subversion, so they can be linked in individually from other pages.
Torch 17:19, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
Please do not create user pages yet
I think we need to specify this more. It is alright for people to give some information about themselves on their Wiki userpage, but we should not accept people creating normal topics about specific TeeWorlds-players. It's questionable if we should accept links from the playernames in clans to specific wiki userpages, because this would mean a large amount of registered users who wouldn't actually actively participate in the wiki. Azon 15:18, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
The reason for adding this rule is that we don't have a real rules-page yet. When we create this we'll probably rethink this rule. --Some 15:37, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
Pictures
Where are we suppose to upload pictures for the wiki? External uploadsites (like photobucket, or is there some sort of internal database?
It's possible to upload stuff. Check the upload file link in the toolbox. --Some 17:24, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
Writing syntax
I think it's time that we decide on how to do the syntax when editing and writing the pages. I personally think it's quite hard to see a clear line of how to edit, but I have one way of writing that I hope you can follow.
General
Each page should begin with a short summary of the subject. In some cases this is the only information currently available, so it should be written correctly. The page name should be made bold, and there are two ways of doing this: either use ''' around the word, or using [[ and ]] around the word. I like the last way better, since it's smaller and is just like any link. There might be problems when it comes to words that are written in another form than the page name, but then I think it's okay to use the first way.
Naming
The naming of pages is really important. Tutorials/guides that are about the same subject, but might be different depending on OS, should be named like the Server hosting pages are. This makes it easy to find the right page for your own OS.
Discussing
When answering to someone, begin the line with a : to make an indent. Place multiple to make it indent more.
This was all that I could think of right now. Feel free to comment and add stuff. --Some 21:44, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
