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I added some items (like [[Peas]] and [[Dry Ramen Noodles]]) with crafting-recipes in them, but are the done correct? If not, how do I set them up the right way? Really confusing for me...
I added some items (like [[Peas]] and [[Dry Ramen Noodles]]) with crafting-recipes in them, but are the done correct? If not, how do I set them up the right way? Really confusing for me...
  Hey Doc. I wish I could offer more help (hopefully someone with more knowledge will come by). Take a look at the code behind the molotov
  cocktail page and model your code upon it. When you see recipelookup it is referencing this page- Template:RecipeLookup which you will
  need to go into edit mode to see that it is a list of recipes that can be used on multiple pages. Also I believe some of your underlying
  ingredients either do not have pages yet or your links are incorrect - they are linking to a valid page.          Pianoman 14 March 2012

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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..

I think this depends on whether we are going to add a walkthrough for stories. In that case I would suggest the use of spoilers, but to warn for them explicitly on the top of the page Jhw 23:35, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

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)

crafting tables

I feel that these really should be as simple as possible so that anyone can jump in and change things if needed. I'm not 100% convinced that different templates is really the way to go with this, although can see the benefit in only having to change something once and have it update on all of the pages. templates also seem to scare people off at times.. (they also seem to have broken during the server move and I have no idea how to fix them!).

I've started up another revision of the crafting tables format which you can see starting to take shape on the crafting page. It just uses basic wikimarkup tables and all of the info will go straight into the page (for now at least). I personally think this looks a bit nicer.

Sure it might be a bit of a pain to keep them up to date when things change, but at least anyone can edit it right away without having to navigate a host of different templates.

Discussion on this is very much appreciated! Mmmicrophone - PZwiki administrator 19:32, 12 June 2011 (BST)

Looks like reinstalling some of the extensions has fixed the broken templates! The crafting page now has both old and new table styles if anyone wishes to comment? Whatever get's decided we'll stick with.. Mmmicrophone - PZwiki administrator 19:59, 12 June 2011 (BST)
On second thoughts, lets stick with what dumbells has sorted out. Although I do stand by my comment that it needs to be as simple as possible for people to add and edit things as easily as possible! Will revert the changes I made. Mmmicrophone - PZwiki administrator 22:00, 12 June 2011 (BST)

The news section

So the news section on the front page seems a little redundant. Does anyone think it's worth keeping? Could we replace it with something else? Any suggestions?

One idea I have is that it could be made into a section listing tutorial pages as well as help resources for any newbies out there. --DUMBELLS 04:20, 26 June 2011 (BST)

Image upload currently disabled.

Due to an issue which is preventing the deletion of images we have temporarily disabled image uploading. Hopefully this will get fixed asap and we can reactivate the feature.

Aaaaaand it's fixed! Big thanks to Kirrus for sorting it out. Mmmicrophone - PZwiki administrator 00:59, 20 June 2011 (BST)

Spamming

I've been having to manually revert these annoying spam edits for a while. There's gotta be a way to stop them from spamming the main page talk like this. Maybe if you required newly registered users to fill out a CAPTCHA or something? I hope something can be done about this. --DUMBELLS 16:59, 29 June 2011 (BST)

I just deleted a link from the main "Item" category page advertising loan services. I am not sure if I was supposed to do that, but I left a note in the edit summary all the same. Rachealica
You really should consider installing this Captcha-Extension for MediaWiki, if you need any assistance, I am more than willing to help: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit Jhw 20:57, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Either we have installed something to take care of the spam or those rascally spammers have taken a couple of days off. Strange. Pianoman 14 February 2012

Spiked baseballbat

I noticed that the current page about the spiked baseballbat said you kill zombies with one hit with it. I have played enough with the spiked baseballbat to notice that it kills in one hit IF you hit with while the zombie is on the right distance.

Spelling Conventions

Hi, I noticed the page http://pzwiki.net/wiki/Hypercondriac and was tempted to correct it to hypochondriac , or possibly more correctly hypochondria but I actually can find no spelling conventions for the wiki. Are things to be spelled as they appear in the game - possibly with a (sic) afterwards if it is miss-spelled, or are there to be conventions as to capitalisations of links, etc...

Guides

Mash suggested I put a link to my starvation calculator on here somewhere, as well as add a page that is similar to my food guide... I'm not really sure how to do that or where to put it... Suggestions? AdricTheGreat 8:20pm, July 13 2011 EST

Traits

The Wiki is missing most of the traits and their effects I want to add those pages ASAP.

Link all items to items category

I think all items should be linked to items category including ammo, consumables, ect. Good idea? Bad idea? - Rachealica 19:20, 26 December 2011 (CST6CDT)

Index Page/ Contents Page

I am finding it hard to find pages, or linking relevant pages; there isn't much organization right now. There should be some sort of index or contents page that lists all up-to-date articles (not editing help or things that haven't been implemented -other than the planned features page) I think. If I wasn't familiar with the ins and outs of the game already, I'd be hard pressed to finding out on this wiki. -- Rachealica 28 December 2011 8:58 CST

French wiki main page

Hi. I'm admin of a french fansite zomboid-fr.net and I started updating this wiki in french. I saw that english and russian main page are more complete than the french mainpage. I'd like to modify this mainpage like english or russian ones. How Can I do ? I have no access to the "edit" fonction, which is normal I think...

German Mainpage and other german wiki parts

Hallo,I would to start updating this wiki on german, but the problem is,I don't know how can I do it ...

German Mainpage and other german wiki parts

Hallo,I would to start updating this wiki on german, but the problem is,I don't know how can I do it ...

How to create crafting-recipes?

I added some items (like Peas and Dry Ramen Noodles) with crafting-recipes in them, but are the done correct? If not, how do I set them up the right way? Really confusing for me...

  Hey Doc. I wish I could offer more help (hopefully someone with more knowledge will come by). Take a look at the code behind the molotov
  cocktail page and model your code upon it. When you see recipelookup it is referencing this page- Template:RecipeLookup which you will
  need to go into edit mode to see that it is a list of recipes that can be used on multiple pages. Also I believe some of your underlying
  ingredients either do not have pages yet or your links are incorrect - they are linking to a valid page.          Pianoman 14 March 2012