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Re: Glest Wiki - Artists wanted for Background
« Reply #75 on: 19 September 2010, 00:03:44 »
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I think having pages for individual factions, techtrees, and units is a great idea, and would like to see more pages (Magitech has been started) and certainly more editors could be very helpful for such massive tasks.
Yeah, it is a great idea. Although most of the time when I create the pages, I kinda fail to have information on it...just basic stuff usually. Hopefully others will help.
Stubs are fine. By the way, with the templates, its worth mentioning that if you create a stub (a short article with just the basic information), please add the {{Stub}} template to the bottom of the page. This will automatically add it to a stub category (allowing editors who wish to expand stubs, such as myself, to easily find them), as well, lets the viewers know the article is not fully complete and may be expanded in the future.

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A quick note that pages for individual maps ARE allowed, though because of the large number of them, and the possibility of name conflicts, they should be a sub-page of 'Maps' (ie: in the forest map would be 'Maps/In_the_forest'). Happy wiki-ing!
Good idea. Although I still don't know why there is a Glest Map wiki...but anyways speaking of maps, should the image for it be the map editor image or should it be an actual image of the map (probably/like when you zoom out all the way in GAE/MG.)?
Well, I would think that having an actual image of the map is infinitely more useful, since most people can't read the map editor well and even those that can may be surprised by the actual output. One can post the map editor image in there as well though.

On another note about images, one should seek to upload high quality images for the wiki, because the wiki software can scale down the size when using thumbnails. For example, I uploaded a 257 x 525 px image of the behemoth (102kb). That's larger than most articles will need, but it can be scaled down within the article, and if anyone needs an image of a different size, it's always available, and for thumbnails, when the image is given to the client, it is a scaled down image, so has reduced filesize (recommended to use thumbnails whenever possible, to allow pages to load as fast as possible). Also, images should generally be PNG. Yes, jpg has smaller filesize, and you may question the logic of using PNG when you don't need transparency, but JPG is a LOSSLY format, meaning that every time it's saved, it loses data the user does not choose to save. For example, if user A saves it at 90% quality, then user B edits that and uploads it also in 90% quality, that's further loss which stacks.

Finally, if an image can benefit from it, it should have transparency.
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Re: Glest Wiki - Artists wanted for Background
« Reply #76 on: 19 September 2010, 17:31:14 »
Stubs are fine. By the way, with the templates, its worth mentioning that if you create a stub (a short article with just the basic information), please add the {{Stub}} template to the bottom of the page. This will automatically add it to a stub category (allowing editors who wish to expand stubs, such as myself, to easily find them), as well, lets the viewers know the article is not fully complete and may be expanded in the future.
Oh yeah...that is the word and template for that...
Ok, I'll do that.

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Well, I would think that having an actual image of the map is infinitely more useful, since most people can't read the map editor well and even those that can may be surprised by the actual output. One can post the map editor image in there as well though.
OK, but if people were to add to the map editor image too, where would they put it on a map page?

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« Reply #77 on: 19 September 2010, 17:43:04 »
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Well, I would think that having an actual image of the map is infinitely more useful, since most people can't read the map editor well and even those that can may be surprised by the actual output. One can post the map editor image in there as well though.
OK, but if people were to add to the map editor image too, where would they put it on a map page?
Well, as you know, the {{Map}} template has a place for on picture, which should generally be an actual picture. After that, we can have whatever there is for an article (ie: description of the map, etc) and the image can be on the page too, generally as a thumbnail, floated to the right (worth mentioning now that all thumbnails should be floated to the right unless they would benefit more from being placed as normal. I think right is the default as well, but not totally sure.
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« Reply #78 on: 19 September 2010, 18:13:01 »
Ok, thanks for the tips.

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« Reply #79 on: 21 September 2010, 22:28:38 »
Well, the tech page is finally complete, and the magic and magitech ones were done a bit back.

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Why not give a hand to the wiki and help with the unit pages now? I've already created one you can use as an example for the Swordman. First of all, a few general tips:

-If the article is grossly incomplete, please add {{Stub}} at the bottom of the page.
-Please add all unit's to the 'Units' category. This can be done on the edit screen or at the bottom of the page.
-If there is/may be/you-aren't-certain another unit with the same name in another faction (ie: the unit "Swordman" is fairly common and appears a bit), please make the article named 'Unit Name (Faction)'. For example, the swordman's page is called 'Swordman (Tech)'. This prevents different units of the same name from being mixed up. In the future, when an article for that unit is made, the base page (ie: 'Swordman') can be a disambiguation page, allowing you to choose which one you really meant.

Happy editing!
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« Reply #80 on: 28 September 2010, 23:03:45 »
Well, we got no choice, really. The wikis will ALL convert to the controversal new wiki skin, and by november, Monaco (the current skin) will be....gone. The current logo will not work, it must be long and short, thus, I propose the classical Glest with the sword through it logo, the one you see if you scroll all the way up to the top of this page. I will also end up making a custom theme for the wiki too, I suppose, that can have images on the side (similar to many other wiki's, such as the red dead one) though no clue where to get good, high quality, anti-aliased, transparent background images from... :|

Notable changes in the new theme:
-The side bar is shrunk and at the top of the page.
-all the junk is on the right instead of the left.
-BIG wikia ribbon at the top, showing their beloved products...
-The logo has to be long and short, instead of the large rectangle it currently is.
-Lots of stuff moved around, notably, the talk pages don't actually say talk, but are a little dialogue button at the top of the page, to the right of the edit button.

Best example is the Red Dead Wiki.
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« Reply #81 on: 28 September 2010, 23:16:57 »
Yeah I just saw this today, hmm...I wish there was a choice.

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« Reply #82 on: 2 October 2010, 03:45:21 »
Also, a crucial notice: I noticed while looking at the map editor page, that links to images were a new page with an absolute image link... Please DO NOT DO THIS. Instead, link directly to the image page itself, which can also hold a description, among other things. To do this, the WYSIWYG editor has no problems linking to an image (ie: File:Archmage.png), or, in the code editor, simply place a ":" before the word file to prevent it from displaying the image and instead display a link to that image (ie: [[:File:Archmage.png|The Archmage Picture]]).

Now, I got about two dozen of these on the Map Editing page, and really need some help to fix. It's not explicitly hard, but it takes some time and my internet can't handle the large number of page loads. Instructs to fix (note: requires Sysop privileges):
-Open the "Map Editing" page.
-In a new tab or window, begin editing the page.
-Hover over all links to see which ones are "image pages". You'll know when they end in an extension, such as jpg. Make sure the name doesn't start with File:, because that would be one of the few I did fix. Alternatively, click through all the links. It's pretty obvious since the pages are just a picture and a description (optionally, the description may be moved to the image page, but that would add even more time to an already tedious task).
-Change the links when you find a page. The links all seem to be the name of the page (plus the file prefix). ie: if the link points to a 'my_image.jpg' page, then the link is probably 'File:my_image.jpg'. Using the WYSIWYG editor will be handy because it checks to see if the link exists when editing a link.
-Delete the image page. Specifying a reason is optional, but can say anything about linking directly to the images instead of creating a page for them.

While that may sound a bit tedious, it's a lot easier than it sounds, just there's a lot of links. As well, you can check out the category "Articles in need of cleanup" to see which articles may need a major edit. I'll go through most of these eventually, but this one here, with all its different pages to visit and load, is a bit difficult on my internet.

Thanks to whichever editors help, and happy wiki-ing!



For the most part, I'm going to be searching through the pages, determining ones that need to be improved drastically, then adding the appropriant templates, so that later, I can fix them up, as well, other editors are able to easily find pages in need of some TLC. I recommend you add the {{In-use}} template to pages you will edit so that other editors won't edit it as well.
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« Reply #83 on: 2 October 2010, 06:52:16 »
OK, done. Too bad a lot of those images need updates anyways...

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« Reply #84 on: 3 October 2010, 00:20:37 »
Ah, thanks for volunteering Ultifd. As for updating the images, no worries, as they can be easily updated once the links point to the actual image.

On a related topic, I noticed some of those pages link to the image by using an absolute URL to the wiki hosted image. If you upload an image, it's relative path is simply File:Image_name.extension (ie: File:Archmage.png). Because wiki commonly uses thumbnails and different sized images, it often resizes images, which are actually resized, not just in the browser (which speeds up loading drastically). Because of this, the links differ, and are NOT permenant links, and may change. It's very important that you always link to the File:Image_name.extension thing instead because it prevents broken images, and when the image is updated, so is that link.

Some handy image code (all using "File:Archmage.png" as the example):
[[File:Archmage.png]] - Barebones image.
[[File:Archmage.png|thumb]] - Thumbnail image, floating to the right, size depends on the user.
[[File:Archmage.png|thumb|250px]] - Same as above, but the size is set to 250px width. The height will scale accordingly.
[[File:Archmage.png|thumb|250px|Comment]] - Same as above, but with a comment, the text beneath the image. RECOMMENDED. All images should have a comment describing the image, even if it appears self explanatory.
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« Reply #85 on: 3 October 2010, 18:21:21 »
Hmm, looking at the page, it's not done, sorry. I see you edited it a bit, but still lots of links. To find the links, in code viewer, use CTRL+F (find) and search for image extensions, namely .jpg, .png, and .gif. All of the images seem to have an extension in their name. Good luck.

Also, another large list of pages that can be improved is the Dead End Pages:
https://docs.megaglest.org/Special:DeadendPages
These are pages with no internal links in them. They need to be wikified to include internal links to other pages.
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« Reply #86 on: 4 October 2010, 23:03:08 »
OK, I think it's done... still needs a lot of work, but I stopped, since I saw a lot of the images/info need to be updated anyways...

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« Reply #87 on: 5 October 2010, 00:48:29 »
I updated it drastically. Some images still need updates, but its much better than before. Also, congratulations to Ultifd for being the featured user of the month! He will appear on the main page!
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« Reply #88 on: 5 October 2010, 01:16:32 »
Wow, thanks. Although, I think it's rather you that should be featured...for obvious reasons. :-/

Well, now that you fixed it up, I guess we need to update the page...along with all the other pages.
I'll probably also create some more stubs or more pages of techtrees, factions, and/or maps later...
I do wish others could help more, as it would be really...helpful. We're all busy, but I'm pretty sure that some people can give a little bit of their time to help edit or create a page... Especially for people who have made maps or mods...
For the map editor page, I'm kinda confused about it...after all, we have the new map editors, which are both (at least a little bit) different from each other. Then we need to update info...etc.

RfD...Request for Deletion. Wouldn't just "Deletion" be better? Maybe not, but I guess I'm just thinking that it would be better since it has always been like that before and at other wikis... :-/
Anyways, moving on... Now it isn't possible to put a reason...
Also, the template page is supposedly up for deletion... :-/ I guess that can't be fixed, or can it...

Space Faction? Huh?
I didn't recognize it, so I put a RfD since it seems to be an unknown and abandoned mod.

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« Reply #89 on: 5 October 2010, 02:34:04 »
Wow, thanks. Although, I think it's rather you that should be featured...for obvious reasons. :-/
Nah, you deserve it bud. Besides, do you know how bad it would look to go, "User of the month: Meeeeeee". ;)

I'll probably also create some more stubs or more pages of techtrees, factions, and/or maps later...
I do wish others could help more, as it would be really...helpful. We're all busy, but I'm pretty sure that some people can give a little bit of their time to help edit or create a page... Especially for people who have made maps or mods...
For the map editor page, I'm kinda confused about it...after all, we have the new map editors, which are both (at least a little bit) different from each other. Then we need to update info...etc.
Yes, we'll eventually need pages for all the map editors, as well as, my dream is to see a full Wiki. After all, the Granity rule states that no matter how small it is, if it's glest related, it deserves an article in the Wiki. I recently made a G3D page, and would love to see some technical data about the format from those who are more experienced with it. As well, I'd like to eventually get started on the full unit list for Magitech, then expand onto my own mod, military, which is getting a bit left behind in all the edits, but first of all, I set my priority as fixing up all existing pages. Better off to improve existing pages before making more. Particularly the pages linked from the main page. I also noticed some of them have names that are unnecessary and actually detrimental for searching, and am moving them to new names, leaving behind the redirects (note: if you plan to do this, keep an eye on the double redirect page to make sure you don't accidentally create a double redirect).

RfD...Request for Deletion. Wouldn't just "Deletion" be better? Maybe not, but I guess I'm just thinking that it would be better since it has always been like that before and at other wikis... :-/
Anyways, moving on... Now it isn't possible to put a reason...
Also, the template page is supposedly up for deletion... :-/ I guess that can't be fixed, or can it...
Good point. I can't believe I forgot a reason slot for that.  :P Added. As well, I created a duplicate of {{RfD}} called simply {{Delete}}. It's the exact same, though RfD is the main one mentioned on the Template page. For the most part, most of my Wiki skills are orientated from other wikis I frequent, such as the Runescape wiki. The set a good example to me of what a wiki should be like.
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« Reply #90 on: 5 October 2010, 03:07:08 »
Nah, you deserve it bud.
Well, I think I would deserve it more some other time...or maybe once I create all those pages it'll be ok.  :O
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Besides, do you know how bad it would look to go, "User of the month: Meeeeeee". ;)
It might be bad, but that would be the only thing bad about you being it.  :-/ I mean really, the wiki is much better only because of your editing...mostly. For example, the templates, the main page, and the info... Oh well, everyone knows you're like the good dev of Glest, MG, or GAE... just for the forum and the Glest wiki  :O Anyways...

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Yes, we'll eventually need pages for all the map editors, as well as, my dream is to see a full Wiki. After all, the Granity rule states that no matter how small it is, if it's glest related, it deserves an article in the Wiki. I recently made a G3D page, and would love to see some technical data about the format from those who are more experienced with it. As well, I'd like to eventually get started on the full unit list for Magitech, then expand onto my own mod, military, which is getting a bit left behind in all the edits, but first of all, I set my priority as fixing up all existing pages. Better off to improve existing pages before making more. Particularly the pages linked from the main page. I also noticed some of them have names that are unnecessary and actually detrimental for searching, and am moving them to new names, leaving behind the redirects (note: if you plan to do this, keep an eye on the double redirect page to make sure you don't accidentally create a double redirect).
Yeah, that is true...
I guess I'll try to fix up the pages that have old/incorrect info. The problem is that for some pages, I don't know much about that...subject? I wish other people would help...more. Just a little bit is good enough, since of course, we all have lives.

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« Reply #91 on: 5 October 2010, 22:55:57 »
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Got any good ideas to try and advertise the Wiki? Short of a PM to EVERYONE?

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« Reply #92 on: 6 October 2010, 22:55:30 »
Well, the new look has arrived... For now, you are probably (?) looking at a "default" generic skin, but I'm working on porting a custom skin, so just sit tight. At the moment, only logged in users who have set the skin in their preferences will see the skin, but eventually, it will be everyone, logged in or not.

This is what it's looking like at the moment, but it will improve as I customize it manually.


(To be honest, I'm not even 100% sure what other logged in users see... Anyone wanna share? I assume they still see the default for now.)
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« Reply #93 on: 6 October 2010, 22:57:53 »
Well, the maps page has the image problem, but I think we should ignore it since we are going to have maps...have their own pages, so the actual maps page will probably be totally different...
(To be honest, I'm not even 100% sure what other logged in users see... Anyone wanna share? I assume they still see the default for now.)
I saw...just the old format of the wiki page, with no skin. So everything was white...cept the ads...

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« Reply #94 on: 7 October 2010, 03:26:28 »
Gah...so lost... They moved around some of the CSS's, so I'm pretty lost there... However, I hope to get a global CSS up soon that will (1) apply a custom theme. The one I showed is just the basis I could make in a few seconds. I'll need a better background image and more detail obviously, something only some hardcore manual editing will do. As well, I want to try and modify the fixed width of the page. It's simply too narrow...By expanding it to have a max width instead, we can have proportional pages while still not suffering the main reason that the width is fixed for anyway (non standard widths made it display differently on very large and very small screens, something I hope to solve for everyone with a max width).

I posted for the location of the user css's on the forum, and hopefully I will get a reply very soon and can port over to a global css.

EDIT// Actually, the new skin IS global, it seems, but you need to choose the new skin in the preferences. To do so, head over to your preferences page, under the skin tab, choose the new look radio button, then press "save" at the bottom of the screen.
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« Reply #95 on: 23 October 2010, 00:17:21 »
A starter custom skin is now released! Of course, the background could still use some work, bearing in mind that we have to use 8 bit graphics because the max filesize is 100kb...
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« Reply #96 on: 13 November 2010, 03:15:04 »
Heh...no more uncategorized mods/factions on the mod list...
Gah, that was tough. A lot of "research" and editing.

edit: oops, I forgot "un"...+ though   :-[ I must be too tired...

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« Reply #97 on: 13 November 2010, 03:43:26 »
Am I the only one who thinks the layout is much too narrow?  I always have to scroll sideways to see all the content in the XML examples.

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« Reply #98 on: 13 November 2010, 03:47:48 »
Am I the only one who thinks the layout is much too narrow?  I always have to scroll sideways to see all the content in the XML examples.
Yes, I agree too. Can we can do anything about it? Since that is just how the new wiki layout is...
edit: unless Omega can edit it...not sure if he can.

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« Reply #99 on: 13 November 2010, 06:29:32 »
Am I the only one who thinks the layout is much too narrow?  I always have to scroll sideways to see all the content in the XML examples.
Yes, I agree too. Can we can do anything about it? Since that is just how the new wiki layout is...
edit: unless Omega can edit it...not sure if he can.
I *can* do edit it, but am not allowed. The stupid new TOS means you can't change the width of it for everyone. Likewise, you can't modify or move the GUI elements, nor can you remove the pointless image attribution. Frankly, I'm not the only one upset with the new TOS, but nothing I can do about it. It's way too narrow though, you're right... You'll have to try and keep that in mind when you edit.

Of course, you *can* do those changes to your personal CSS, just not to the global. I have code to remove the image attribution if anyone wants. Though I don't recommend changing the width (and will not supply said code) because it will mess with your ability to edit (since you become dependent on that size. The entire reason there's a set width now is so different resolutions don't make a difference. Of course, it also prevents images that are too large from cropping up in articles...), plus, when I tried to do so, everything went horribly wrong (did you know the GUI elements are relatively positioned to the content div? I didn't. :O).

Of course, I'd REALLY like to see one of the more artistic of you improve on the current background image. Bearing in mind that it MUST be under 100KB (or the wiki won't let you use it) and be either a jpg (recommended, because of the 100kb limit), png, or gif. As well, it should display properly for all users, regardless of screen size, so watch the edges.  Lastly, I'd recommend that you take into aspect that the content area needs no details, as it will be obscured by the content (btw, the content area is 1000px).

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