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Foxy
United Kingdom Join Date: 2014-08-19 Member: 198032Members, NS2 Playtester, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Shadow
United Kingdom Join Date: 2014-08-19 Member: 198032Members, NS2 Playtester, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Shadow
Hello,
I've recently (with thanks to Comprox) undertaken some major house-keeping on the Wiki. (30,000 spam articles deleted!) but there's still a whole lot more to do! I'm in the process of blocking all the nasty bot accounts and after that will be focusing on updating as much of the content as is possible. There are already a core of users that maintain certain articles, and they do a great job, but hopefully the wider community will take a renewed interest in it, as it's a great resource for players, both new and old! Multi-lingual users in particular would be great.
Anything you think you can do to help, please do!
Any questions? Please ask away!
Thanks!
I've recently (with thanks to Comprox) undertaken some major house-keeping on the Wiki. (30,000 spam articles deleted!) but there's still a whole lot more to do! I'm in the process of blocking all the nasty bot accounts and after that will be focusing on updating as much of the content as is possible. There are already a core of users that maintain certain articles, and they do a great job, but hopefully the wider community will take a renewed interest in it, as it's a great resource for players, both new and old! Multi-lingual users in particular would be great.
Anything you think you can do to help, please do!
Any questions? Please ask away!
Thanks!
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Does the wiki have the Cite extension installed? @d4rkAlf wanted to put some footnotes in, but have had no luck.
Good Work FoxyUK for killing the spam pages.
edit: typos
Yes, I've noticed the great work you've done on the patch notes so big kudos for that and big thanks to @d4rkAlf for his work on the dedicated server page, I've updated the Biomass template and I'll update the Kharaa tech tree fully to reflect the new build, then see what else I find that needs updating, The installed extensions are here http://wiki.unknownworlds.com/ns2/Special:Version I've already requested Nuke to be installed to ensure we can quickly kill any pages created by spam bots in the future and I'm working on obtaining some efficient abuse filters from people I know in the wikipedia/wikimedia crowd.
@soccerguy243 :
Check here:
http://wiki.unknownworlds.com/ns2/Main_Page
As far as I can tell the Cite extension is needed for proper footnotes. Could you request that as well?
I'm feeling the same for the French translation.
Le jeu est actuellement au stade d'une version pré alpha.
@FoxyUK That would be okay for me. I don't know how to manage that, but doing/checking one article after another would be better instead of randomly translating wrong stuff.
That definitely makes sense once the wiki is more up to date. As it stands now however it might just confuse new players more than it helps them.
Anything you break can easily be reverted, the beauty of a mediawik is it retains all changes and even keeps deleted articles (unless they are suppressed or oversighted etc.) which in itself requires additional extensions, just be brave and edit
Definitely, I like my links hard and clickable!
Also is a outsourced wiki an idea, something like... I dunno... haven't really looked into it but... Google says wikia...
Wikia is just a free wiki hosting platform, there is already an NS2 wiki there, but it is very lacking in content. Generally Wikia is only used when there are no alternatives, in this case, UWE has been kind enough to host a wiki, now its up to us to keep it up-to date!
Good to see this new initiative though =D>
The article spam is manageable and preventable, I'm working on preventing the account creation in the first place - there's anywhere from 10-40 or so new spam accounts created every day!
Thanks for checking this out. Oversight on my part. I will correct on the wiki.
This is part of the reason when I wrote my guide and manual, I didn't put numbers on there (because it can change).
The thing is, in its current situation, it looks super confusing to know if we can translate this article, or this other.
There's no way to figure out what can be changed and what cannot be. I'm always like: "Can I update this or will it also change the English version despite the fact I'm supposed to be in the French part?". There's also lots of things that I cannot modify because I don't find where they are such as the one mentioned below about the game being still in beta or something. I can't see any option to update that.
Honestly, it'd be easier to remove the whole French translation, await the English one to get up to date and then, doing the job again. I don't even know who's been in charge of translating the Wiki in the past.
I don't speak any French I could use, so whatever you think we need to do then go ahead. I suggest adding {{Delete|reason=Outdated}} to the top of every French page that needs deleting and I will remove them. Additionally, I'll make an infobox that we can add to articles that reads something along the lines of "This article is up to date as of build XXX"
Foxy, can you get a pic of the tech tree for aliens (I put it in the to do list). There is an old pic for the alien commander that still had shadow step. I can't find the techtree in the ui folder.
I have the one from the wiki, I'm just editing it to be up-to-date
Okay, this infobox is nice for the future, but right now we have no overview... ATM I'm not sure but what do you think about a Google Excel sheet with all articles (yeah I know...) on it and checkboxes where we can see who has allready updated what pages. We could also add the languages for the translators so we know whats done and whats pending.
Same in german... Totally outdated, wrong translated and only ¼ of the actual english content translated... Aliens:de
I will try to do so when I get time.