The AC2 Wiki

[ete]

Done. I'll make the params do fancy stuff sometime (when I have net and time+there is a decent bunch of scenarios with faction info filled in).

Edit: BU you can track various things about the scenario project from here: http://alphacentauri2.info/wiki/Category:Scenarios

e.g. you can get a list of scenarios which don't have factions listed, or ones without downloads, ect. Also see how many there are total.

[vv221]

Hi!

I haven't taken the time to go through all this thread yet (it's on the top of my TOREAD list), but I'm hopping here anyway to say that I'm volunteering for anything needed to improve/expand the Wiki.
A good Wiki is something I would have loved to have when I discovered Alpha Centauri…
(actually, I think I didn't even have an Internet connection at the time, but that's not the point)

Could you tell me what are the priorities at this time?

I'm not a native English speaker, so I may let let some strange phrasings and such behind me, but usually I try to be extra careful about it when writing on a Wiki.
(at least a lot more than when I'm writing on a board)

Oh, and did I tell you that I've awful lots of free time these days?

[ete]

This is /very promising/ . There's a few fairly simple but time consuming tasks that need doing:
Most custom factions are missing the http://alphacentauri2.info/wiki/Template:LeaderInfoBox so adding that would be cool
Scenarios need uploading (I posted how to do this exactly on the previous page)

More involved tasks include hunting down all the cool things Yitzi and other .exe guys have found in the code (formulas, how various things work) and adding that information to appropriate pages. If you're not super comfortable with english I'd suggest making a post in each thread you find information in with a quote of the change you make to the wiki page to make sure you've got it right.

Trawling the web for more custom factions that have been missed would also be good, as would uploading the recent custom factions and making sure they're all on wiki properly (iirc Dio's are not uploaded at all, several of JarlWolf's are not on the wiki, and a couple of Sigma's are missing their text files).

Another useful thing would be searching for useful strategy articles and creating pages for them (include link back to original source for credit).

And at some point I'd like to add {{SMAX|stuff}} and {{SMAC|stuff}} tags so we can easily tell what's in which game.

If you're good with web design making the infoboxes look more pretty would be nice, and if you're really keen maybe even a modified skin for the wiki.

If you're good with technical things (or have time to learn) then making a way to turn wiki XML exports directly into datalnks entries would be awesome. This may help: http://superuser.com/questions/564623/how-can-i-perform-a-large-number-of-different-find-replaces/564733#564733 since I'm pretty sure a set of regex find/replaces should do the job.

Related to ^ it may make things much easier if links are formatted in a specific way across the datalinks part of the wiki. If you want to take a crack at that project, let me know and I'll explain more details.

Let me know if you need advise or help figuring out how to do stuff, and remember nothing you can do can break or really harm the wiki. Edit and try things, worst case you have to change back.

[vv221]

Most custom factions are missing the http://alphacentauri2.info/wiki/Template:LeaderInfoBox so adding that would be cool

Okay, it seems to be a good thing to start familiarizing myself with the Wiki.

Scenarios need uploading (I posted how to do this exactly on the previous page)

Seems easy too, something I could do.

More involved tasks include hunting down all the cool things Yitzi and other .exe guys have found in the code (formulas, how various things work) and adding that information to appropriate pages.

I'm quite passionated with all this hacking stuff, should be a plesaure to work on it.

If you're not super comfortable with english I'd suggest making a post in each thread you find information in with a quote of the change you make to the wiki page to make sure you've got it right.

Oh, I've no real problem with understanding English, the risk is more about strange phrasings
But on Wikis I try to stay quite formal, which is a good way to be understandable.

Trawling the web for more custom factions that have been missed would also be good, as would uploading the recent custom factions and making sure they're all on wiki properly (iirc Dio's are not uploaded at all, several of JarlWolf's are not on the wiki, and a couple of Sigma's are missing their text files).

Another useful thing would be searching for useful strategy articles and creating pages for them (include link back to original source for credit).

Another thing I should be capable of.

And at some point I'd like to add {{SMAX|stuff}} and {{SMAC|stuff}} tags so we can easily tell what's in which game.

I won't be able to create tags, but assigning them is something I can.

If you're good with web design making the infoboxes look more pretty would be nice, and if you're really keen maybe even a modified skin for the wiki.

Not my part: I don't know anything about web design

If you're good with technical things (or have time to learn) then making a way to turn wiki XML exports directly into datalnks entries would be awesome. This may help: http://superuser.com/questions/564623/how-can-i-perform-a-large-number-of-different-find-replaces/564733#564733 since I'm pretty sure a set of regex find/replaces should do the job.

Related to ^ it may make things much easier if links are formatted in a specific way across the datalinks part of the wiki. If you want to take a crack at that project, let me know and I'll explain more details.

Hey, I don't even understand a word of what you're talking about
But I do have time to learn.

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But first things first: I'm going to spend a couple days wandering on the Wiki before editing anything.
I like to know my environment before doing any actual work.

[ete]

Sounds good! https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Editing_pages and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents are useful places to look for editing help.

[sisko]

CivBE is making planetfall on Oct.24th and i think a BE wiki tailored for AC fans would be a nice addition to our content.

@ete: a CivBE section inside the AC wiki? what do you think about it?

[ete]

No objection from me so long as the AC content is not made less accessible (specifically, links from the main page), but I'm not likely to be working on it in the short term.

[Buster's Uncle]

That's passing up a recruiting opportunity for the wiki...

[ete]

I'm willing to be around sometimes to answer questions and teach people, but I'm not particularly interested in committing a large amount of time to developing a wiki for a game I've never played.

[sisko]

No objection from me so long as the AC content is not made less accessible (specifically, links from the main page),..

Right now we have links to the wiki from the main menu (under 'Resources'), from the forum index (right column), as well as from every page of the AC forums (also on the right column).

..but I'm not likely to be working on it in the short term.

I'm willing to be around sometimes to answer questions and teach people, but I'm not particularly interested in committing a large amount of time to developing a wiki for a game I've never played.

That's fair enough.
It will be hard to find someone with your wiki skills, but we need a volunteer to wikify our CivBE content.

Anyone?

[ete]

I meant the front page of the wiki, the expandable list of AC pages, that should stay.

[sisko]

I meant the front page of the wiki, the expandable list of AC pages, that should stay.

Aww.. sorry. I misunderstood. The main page will remain almost the same, but we'll have to add at least a link to the CivBE Section.

[ete]

No problem, and it's fine to add a decent section on BE to the main page with a bunch of links, just so long as we don't lose AC links in the process.

[Buster's Uncle]

When I was swapping the BE stuff back out recently, I wanted to add

to the top of the wiki main page -if not every page- along with a line of text like "The Largest Alpha Centauri Community/Forum On The 'Net" centered underneath, all hyperlinked to the root index, of course -actually went to the main page and looked at it for a minute- but I'm not a fan of figuring out how to do stuff on wikis...

Let's make that happen, though - I never understood why ete didn't want the host labeled more prominently, as is only fair...  Branding really matters, darnit.

I've got some less-wide versions, if that one doesn't suit the layout...

[Buster's Uncle]

Well, I poked around and did something on the main page - but I wish I could figure out how to get into the page template instead...