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Tutorial

Should we throw together a simple tutorial? just a single page with all "need to know" information such as movement, interaction and so forth? Or should we wait on that since that page would need ALLOT of maintenance since the game is changing pretty fast?

Yeah I think this is probably the way to do it, as long as it doesn't end up being a walk through. Mmmicrophone - PZwiki administrator 09:25, 2 June 2011 (BST)

Map linked from Main Page

As of now, I notice no obvious link to the Suburbs page or the Map. I was unable to find it without Googling PZ map and linking to it from a random Someting Awful post.

Good point! Will sort this out in a very short while! Mmmicrophone - PZwiki administrator 20:15, 1 June 2011 (BST)

Done! Mmmicrophone - PZwiki administrator 21:22, 1 June 2011 (BST)

FAQ?

I'm not sure if we need a tutorial per se but a FAQ covering things like pausing the game, whether or not you can save your game, how to start a new game, tips for play, etc. might be a decent idea.

I like this idea. I think a page is still required for the tutorial, maybe just have it describe what it teaches you etc rather than a step by step guide? Mmmicrophone - PZwiki administrator 21:24, 1 June 2011 (BST)

Containers

Maybe a bit of a trivial topic. Should [these pages] all be on 1 generic containers page? Each of the current pages could have their own section. Just right now there doesn't seem to be a great deal of info for each page and I doubt there ever will be.. Mmmicrophone - PZwiki administrator 22:17, 1 June 2011 (BST)

done! if/when we have too much info on the page we can split it again.. Mmmicrophone - PZwiki administrator 19:35, 4 June 2011 (BST)

SPOILERS! (none in this post)

So some people have added a few spoilers to the tutorial and Kate Smith pages. Do we want to avoid having spoilers on here or should we just go for it? At the moment there is only really 1 or 2 things that can be spoiled story wise but I'm sure there will eventually be more..

Wikimark up help section

So I started adding a list of commonly used wikimark up to the help section here. It's a bit lacking right now so feel free to suggest any other bits you think should be added. I'd personally like to try to keep the help page simple so it doesn't scare newcomers off. Anything more complex like tables and whatnot could probably be linked to via the main mediawiki page.. Mmmicrophone - PZwiki administrator 12:15, 5 June 2011 (BST)

Two things

Just two things I'm concerned about right now:
1) There should be a strong protection on the Template:! page. (vandal edits could screw up templates).
2) PZwiki:Copyrights isn't filled out yet.
That's all. --DUMBELLS 04:47, 11 June 2011 (BST)

Number 1 is done. Will get to work on number 2 now. Mmmicrophone - PZwiki administrator 18:31, 11 June 2011 (BST)

Collapsible tables

Is the collapsible table class implemented on this wiki yet? Might be beneficial if it was. --DUMBELLS 16:19, 11 June 2011 (BST)

hm, have installed it as per the instructions on the mediawiki site however they don't seem to work. If they don't work it will probably be best to wait until the server move is sorted as I'll most likely upgrade the software to 1.17 when that happens which has collapsible tables out of the box. Mmmicrophone - PZwiki administrator 18:31, 11 June 2011 (BST)