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I want to write articles! What can I do?
[ul][li]The page PCB:Potential Articles has a list of articles that could be created, as well as further links to articles that need improving[/li][/ul] How do I even write an article?
PCBWiki uses the same wiki software as Wikipedia. They have a few useful articles.
How do I do add an Infobox? Or a template? Or anything else?
For now, look at other articles that use the same thing you’re trying to use. Click Edit and look at their template code. You can copy and adapt this to your page. Proper documentation coming soon.
What do we intend the wiki to be? A causal place for communicating articles (that I feel no one would read anyway) or a formal, more documentive one? (I’d much prefer it to be the latter.) Can we draft a list of policies?
It’s original intention was to be documentative, as the forums aren’t a particularly good way to store history. Admittedly I’m not a fan of having solid written policies, it seems excessive for what is a relatively small project. In short, I’d say to have articles in Wikipedia-style and following their conventions.
Also as a side note, there are a few articles that are solid blocks of text. It’s a better idea to break them down into a short summary paragraph and then a series of subheadings.
Remember, if you’re saying something on a Talk page, sign your message with ~~~~. I’ve added a reminder of this to the talk page edit notice.
Maybe some more player articles, giving information on senior staff members or other notable players (i.e. ones with extensive builds, contributions to events, etc. Fatso12321 and myself ran the classic fallback server, Ouhai became one of the earliest to reach SOP rank through playing exclusively on there and helping us run it)
Notable builds (e.g. Carpe Diem and it’s future iterations come to mind)
Major server crashes/errors (Classic going down, etc.)
You’ll notice there are two edit buttons: Edit and Edit Source.
Edit will launch VisualEditor, which is much easier to use.
Edit Source will launch the normal WikiText editor, which is easier to use if you know what you’re doing.
It will take a few seconds to process the first time a page is edited with VisualEditor. It’s much quicker afterwards though.
Also thought I’d mention that if anyone has screenshots (especially screenshots of historical stuff like classic and early survival) please upload them and/or place them on the wiki pages. My screenshot collection is limited and it’d be a shame to lose some PCB history
So just as a guideline on player pages: Only make player pages for present and past Admins, SOPs (or classic equivalents), and people who are notable (e.g. borbor). I’ve deleted pages that don’t fit this.
No, but you can create your own albums and put them on that page.
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There seems to be a bit of confusion about map names.
As far as I’m aware, “Creative 1.7” refers to the previous creative map. Towns that currently exist are not Creative 1.7 towns. The current map is as far as I’m aware 1.8.
If you are right @TheOctopus, then the cities that need to be moved to a new 1.8 category are Budapest, Hokkaido, Kistelek, Konin, Portland, Tentari and Victoria (at least i think they are the ones)