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| − | ==Introduction==
| + | Hello and welcome to the Discovery help section! |
| − | This wiki uses [http://www.mediawiki.org MediaWiki]. For a more detailed overview about editing please consult the [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing MediaWiki Handbook] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext_examples Wikitext example page].
| + | With the wiki getting older and older, we need your help to keep things up to date. With more then 3,000 articles it is hard to do it alone. So, do some thing to help the community! |
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| − | ==Editing basics==
| + | Q: Where can i help? |
| − | '''Opening the edit page'''
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| − | To start editing a page, click on the '''"Edit"''' link at the top of the article. You will come to a page with a textbox with the ''wikitext'' of the article.
| + | A: You can help all over the forum, but the main place to first get started is by helping the community and even the admins, by fixing, or updating: |
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| − | '''Summarize your edits'''
| + | - [[:Category:Outdated|Outdated]] |
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| − | Below the textbox, there's a field where you can summarize your edits.
| + | - [[:Category:Systems without descriptions|Systems Without Descriptions]] |
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| − | '''Preview before saving'''
| + | - [[:Category:Systems without profile images|Systems Without Profile Images]] |
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| − | Before saving your changes, it's a good idea to look how your changes will look. Repeat the process of edit/preview until your satisfied of the result, then click the '''"Save"'''-button and the changes will be made to the article.
| + | - [[:Category:Stubs|Incomplete Pages]] |
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| − | ==Wikitext - How to make the page look the way you want==
| + | - [[:Category:BadVersion|Bad Versions]] |
| − | ===Basic text formatting===
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| − | |You can ''italicize text'' by putting two apostrophes on each side.
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| − | Three apostrophes will '''bold the text'''.
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| − | Five apostrophes will '''bold''' and ''italicize'' '''''the text'''''.
| + | - [[:Category:Factions without profile images|Factions Without Profile Images]] |
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| − | ==The following need to be discussed==
| + | And even more! So the best thing you can do is to go surfing the wiki! |
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| | + | Q: How do I contact the GC discovery support? |
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| | + | A: You can reach them at info@discoverygc.com |
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| − | ===Linking to existing pages===
| + | Need any other help? And if you can, donate knowledge to this section! |
| − | ====Linking technique====
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| − | There are variations.
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| − | *[[NPC Factions]] <pre>[[NPC Factions]]</pre>
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| − | *[[NPC Factions|NPC Factions]] <pre>[[NPC Factions|NPC Factions]]</pre>
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| − | *[[NPC Factions#Bretonia NPC Factions|These are the Bretonian non-player factions]]<pre>[[NPC Factions#Bretonia NPC Factions|These are the Bretonian non-player factions]]
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| − | ====Repeating the linking in an article====
| + | - [[:Category:Help|Help]] |
| − | I find it a bit tedious to read if all the words are linked, so it could be
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| − | *First encounters in the whole article of the word should be linked?
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| − | *First encounter in a paragraph should be linked?
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| − | *Sprinkle them using common sense?
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| | + | '''If you can contribute to, then do so!''' |
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| − | '''Discussion:''' One the first point: Personally I like links to be like of last format of linking since it's explicit and works in all cases allowing also to make the link text to be anything you like. | + | Oh but please note, any page that has the following [[templates]] or any page that is not in the game any longer we'd like to keep untouched or labelled, because these are important to the history of the Discovery mod. |
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| − | On the second point: Somehow I think sprinkling could be the best solution. Once in a paragraph is enough I think. If the article is long then it makes sense to have the linking done several times.
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| − | [[User:Looqas|Looqas]] 15:12, 6 August 2008 (GMT)
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| − | :Perhaps "Sprinkle" with only one link of any particular word per article would do the trick? So for example, if there is a link in a Ships statistics for [[Corsairs]] then there need be no other Corsairs links on the page.[[User:Chovynz|Chovynz]] 16:14, 6 August 2008 (GMT)
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| − | ===Writing style conventions===
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| − | *Are we gonna capitalize the text that are links e.g.
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| − | ...this will lead to [[Jump Hole|Jump Hole]]...
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| − | or should we stick to English
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| − | ...this will lead to [[Jump Hole|jump hole]]...
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| − | *In-universe or out-of-universe style?
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| − | '''Discussion:''' I'm inclined to using the small letters, but whatever...
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| − | [[User:Looqas|Looqas]] 15:12, 6 August 2008 (GMT)
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| − | :Same here. Just use the pipelines (linking technique of the link|name). And I don't really understand the difference between In-Universe versus Out-of-Universe. That's a Praetyre thing. Praetyre! please explain it to us![[User:Chovynz|Chovynz]] 16:14, 6 August 2008 (GMT)
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| − | ===Page composition and templates===
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| − | ====Page types====
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| − | These are types that come to my mind and all should have some sort of common template of layout. We should have links into each page type in this very guide after we have decided upon a format.
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| − | *Ships, e.g. [[Odin|Odin Very heavy fighter]] (and their info boxes)
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| − | *Systems, e.g. [[New York|New York System]] (I like this page and it looks good)
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| − | *Indivual pages for NPC Factions. All we have now is all of them grouped together [[NPC Factions|NPC Factions]]
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| − | *Terms and definitions, e.g.[[Trade Lane|Trade Lane] (This is one of the page types I'd like to see more clarification on since we have multiple formats there)
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| − | *Misc pages
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| − | ====Templates====
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| − | A long list of links to different templates below. Basically we should have some sort of template to cover all the page types.
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| − | *Template for systems
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| − | *Template for ships
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| − | '''Discussion:''' The list contains only of a few that came into my mind quickly.
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| − | [[User:Looqas|Looqas]] 15:12, 6 August 2008 (GMT)
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| − | :Here are [[User_talk:Chovynz#Things_to_keep_as_templates|some]] that I have used. Bear in mind that as templates are being developed the things that we base them off will change. Case in point, Blodo has made a [[Template:Ship_Infobox|new actual template]] that renders my ship one obsolete. So this list would need to be updated to let people know which template to use. The good thing about using Blodos one is that any ship page that uses that template can easily and quickly be layout or style changed whilst still keeping the info, by only changing the template. Using my own, thats not possible, and it also means that any ship pages has to be converted to the Blodos one. The good thing about the ships issue specifically is that the info is already ON the wiki so it shouldnt take too much time to convert them. [[User:Chovynz|Chovynz]] 16:14, 6 August 2008 (GMT)
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| − | ===Using Categories===
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| − | '''Discussion:''' Should we included categories in all the pages? My personal opinion is yes. It would help.
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| − | [[User:Looqas|Looqas]] 15:12, 6 August 2008 (GMT)
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| − | :Definitely yes.[[User:Chovynz|Chovynz]] 16:14, 6 August 2008 (GMT)
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Hello and welcome to the Discovery help section!
With the wiki getting older and older, we need your help to keep things up to date. With more then 3,000 articles it is hard to do it alone. So, do some thing to help the community!
Q: Where can i help?
A: You can help all over the forum, but the main place to first get started is by helping the community and even the admins, by fixing, or updating:
- Outdated
- Systems Without Descriptions
- Systems Without Profile Images
- Incomplete Pages
- Bad Versions
- Pages Without Profile Images
- Factions Without Profile Images
- Reviews Missing Valid Mod Version Numbers
And even more! So the best thing you can do is to go surfing the wiki!
Q: How do I contact the GC discovery support?
A: You can reach them at info@discoverygc.com
Need any other help? And if you can, donate knowledge to this section!
- Help
If you can contribute to, then do so!
Oh but please note, any page that has the following templates or any page that is not in the game any longer we'd like to keep untouched or labelled, because these are important to the history of the Discovery mod.
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See also:
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