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==2018-04-11 0.6.3 Update==
==2018-05-22 The Long Form==
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  [[User:CptTwinkie|&#126;CptTwinkie]]
I had time over the last month to write some text and I made the most of it by working on the [[:Category:How_To_Play|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 [[:Category:Engineer%27s_Book|Engineer's Book]], [[:Category:HUD|HUD]] screens, and all other [[:Category:Non-HUD_Screens|Non-HUD]] screens. I also made some progress on the [[:Category:Flora|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.


==2018-02-02 Update Complete==
I've finished copying the export data. The wiki is now (mostly) up to date for 0.6. There may be some categories that need to be touched up. I plan to go through all of them one last time today. Blocks, block groups, items, quests, and schematics are all up to date. Everything is now fair game for descriptions and improvements. [[User:CptTwinkie|&#126;CptTwinkie]]


==2018-01-05 Preparations Complete (mostly)==
I also installed the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Popups 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. [[User:CptTwinkie|&#126;CptTwinkie]]
Twenty Eighteen...that phrase will take a while to get used to. I have written a rather large news post and changelog so I'm making use of that nice expandable template I worked out. There have been a lot of organizational changes lately but no content. As far as I can tell, I've reached the end of 0.6 organization and I'm ready to move on to data exporting. Hopefully I'll be flooding the wiki with data updates soon. [[User:CptTwinkie|&#126;CptTwinkie]]
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<h3>History</h3>
In the past few days I've focused a lot on history in the wiki. I realized, very slowly I know, that keeping history for an early access game will have some challenges. I had already done some research about wiki history so I knew some methods but it was only now that I rationalized those methods to our humble ME Wiki.


There are two main/popular/easy methods of history for any given article on a wiki: history references and sub-page archiving. References are the easiest because you only need to link to a history state of the page and you're done. This works well for, what I call, non-functional pages. You can view them and with a little effort you can even update them (edit &rarr; save &rarr; undo &rarr; save &rarr; new history created). This doesn't work well for functional pages, things like categories and templates. A good example that we have is ''Category:Schematics''. Schematics have changed completely from 0.5 to 0.6 and they cannot be updated. The old schematics no longer exist and a bunch of new ones are in their place with new rules. This is where archiving comes in. Move the category to ''Category:Schematics/0.5'', re-link all of the schematic pages, create a new ''Category:Schematics'' and add new schematics pages to it. This gives us separate content, separate histories, and easy updates. It's also a lot more work.


With all of this history activity going on I realized that a lot of pages were acquiring links to the past. I started making a history template when I realized that our two kinds of history keeping (references and archiving) called for two kinds of template (it's technical :P). So I made ''Template:HistoryId'', which uses reference ID's, and ''Template:HistorySub'', which uses archived sub-pages. They have identical formatting to each other and the Version template. Place just after the version on pages.
==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  [[User:CptTwinkie|&#126;CptTwinkie]]


<h3>Tags</h3>
Do you look at the Recent changes page? As an admin I'm on that page all the time. Like right now I'm looking up my own recent changes to write this news. With so many changes happening it's not always clear why a change was made. Sure, I could go back to adding messages every time I save a page but that takes time and I can't always remember how I worded something before...so I don't do it. I know, lazy editor. Those messages are still an option for something truly out of the ordinary. For the most part, I tend to do mass updates for simple things like template changes and re-linking. Having a way to quickly identify those common action in the recent changes is really attractive to me. It turns out that the MediaWiki software has my back! I've added some basic tags for template updates, linking, categorization, pasting game data, and importing pages (yes, I have an offline test wiki I can export things from). So far I've only found one thing confusing. When I change a template or category and I need to touch all of the linked pages, should I use ''Tag:Template'' and ''Tag:Categorization'' or ''Tag:Links''? What I decided is that I will use ''Tag:Links'' anytime I'm just changing the target of something. If I move/rename a category - links. If I rename a template or image - links. If I move pages from one category to another (reorganization) - categorization. If I update a template with different attributes - template.
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===Change Log===
==2018-02-02 Update Complete==
*Created [[Template:HistorySub]] to link archived sub-pages.<br/>
I've finished copying the export data. The wiki is now (mostly) up to date for 0.6. There may be some categories that need to be touched up. I plan to go through all of them one last time today. Blocks, block groups, items, quests, and schematics are all up to date. Everything is now fair game for descriptions and improvements. [[User:CptTwinkie|&#126;CptTwinkie]]
*Created [[Template:HistoryId]] to link history ID's.<br/>
*Created [[Template:Anchor]] because it seemed like a good idea at the time.<br/>
*Created [[Template:TransclusionNotice]], used on [[Taxation Table]] which is transcluded into [[Claim Block]] and [[Wooden Claim Block]].<br/>
*Created [[Template:Quest]] prototype. It has some cool categorization behavior but, I had to guess at the information I would export from quests so, it may not be complete.<br/><br/>
*Updated [[Template:Crafting Blueprint]] with more concise labels.<br/>
*Documented [[Template:Fullurl]], which is actually broken but does exactly what it needs to do so don't judge the source.<br/>
*Fixed [[Template:Infobox/End]] by adding more robust linking to work properly with categories.<br/>
*Fixed [[Template:Version]] to have consistent padding.<br/><br/>
*Archived [[:Category:Research and Quests/Schematics]].<br/>
*Archived [[Template:Resource]].<br/>
*Archived [[Template:Crafting Schematic]].




Revision as of 08:46, 22 May 2018

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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


2018-02-02 Update Complete

I've finished copying the export data. The wiki is now (mostly) up to date for 0.6. There may be some categories that need to be touched up. I plan to go through all of them one last time today. Blocks, block groups, items, quests, and schematics are all up to date. Everything is now fair game for descriptions and improvements. ~CptTwinkie




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