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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)

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?

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)