Medieval Engineers Wiki:News
2018-06-06 Extensions
I've been working with some extensions to get some new functionality working on the wiki. One of the extensions has been installed since the beginning of the wiki but until now it was difficult to use. ~CptTwinkie
| Extension | Notes |
|---|---|
| MultimediaViewer | This extension provides lightbox functionality to images and galleries. There are no changes needed to articles...it just works. It can be disabled in Preferences. |
| CodeMirror | This extension provides wikicode highlighting in the editor. It is off by default but can be turned on by clicking an icon in the editor. |
| WikiSEO | This extension provides metadata for search engines and link embedding. I've created a simple template to use it called Template:SEO. This template should be used on ALL pages.
The image is optional. If you leave out the image url entirely from the template it will use the wiki logo instead. The description is mandatory but can be left blank if there is no description available. There should be a description for every page eventually so it can be copied to the template. I tried to find an automated solution for this but there was nothing that provided quality image and text results. |
| EmbedVideo | This extension has always been around but I made two templates for using it. It embeds video links directly into articles. Template:VideoID loads videos using service and id information. This method can break if the video site changes its link format. Template:VideoURL does the same using the URL of the video instead. This method is a little less reliable but is more stable over time. |
2018-05-22 The Long Form
I had time over the last month to write some text and I made the most of it by working on the How To Play category. I was able to get many of the pages there to a more-or-less complete state and the remainder are not far behind. This includes the Engineer's Book, HUD screens, and all other Non-HUD screens. I also made some progress on the Flora category which now has some basic information available. Taxes was updated and expanded. This includes the Taxation Table which was expanded and will provide additional information on all of the pages it is used on.
On the more technical side of things, I moved all of the medieval theme related styles out of the templates and into the site and theme css files. It's not the best css organization (meaning it will not be convenient to reuse the selectors I created) but it means that the current templates won't have medieval formatting when used with other themes.
I also installed the Popups extension. It is a light-weight version of Wikipedia's Navigation popups that displays summary text (usually stopping at the first heading) and an image (usually a large one) from the beginning of articles when you hover your mouse pointer over a wiki link. The text is quite predictable in most cases but the images seem to update slowly and don't always behave as expected. Even so, it is a helpful feature on Wikipedia and I think it will be appreciated here as well. Click the cog in any popup to configure or disable it. See any page's Page information to preview the image selection for that page. Image selection is only updated when a page is saved and it may take some time (tens of minutes or hours) to show in the popups. My guess is that it's related to the slow updates in this version of the wiki that can be seen in slow category updates. I don't have a plan to update the wiki itself but we are now at the tail-end of version support for most extensions so I may have to consider it sooner than later. The slow updates seem to not be a problem on newer releases. ~CptTwinkie
2018-04-11 0.6.3 Update
All data has been updated to 0.6.3. Template:Stat Effects has been updated to reflect the new stats system. Enjoy the update :D ~CptTwinkie