How to contribute: Difference between revisions

We welcome you to contribute to this wiki. Feel free to edit any pages to improve this wiki. All changes made in good faith are welcome. [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Be_bold|Be bold!]] When you are unsure about something, you can always ask in the #wiki channel on [https://ddnet.org/discord Discord] or [https://matrix.to/#/#ddnet-wiki:matrix.org Matrix]. This page should help getting started to contribute. You need to register in order to contribute.

We encourage every kind of contribution. Here are a few examples what you could do:

* You can always fix problems you see, correct grammar, make sure wording is accurate, etc.

* Expand an article by covering another topic

* Write a new article. A variety of topics are yet to be covered

Articles should be related to the DDNet and Teeworlds community/projects/ecosystem.

Please do not put "Made by X" or "Wiki Article by X" when writing an article, authorship is seen by contributions that can be looked up on "View History", not at the article directly.

Changes made to the wiki go to a moderation queue, where moderators will check if the change you made is vandalism.

Here are our practices we follow when moderating content, which the extension itself recommends:

The following good-practices are advised:

# Only vandalism should be Rejected. Not-so-good edits with good intentions (e.g. adding excessive plot details into the Wikipedia article about film) are better made Approved and then reverted as usual. This way the author is not offended and the text is saved in page history, viewable by anyone.

# Any user that is deemed legitimate (does N good edits) should be added into <code>automoderated</code> group.

# Allow the full rehabilitation of users with a bad history of editing. Their useful edits to the articles should be allowed, no matter how many times they were blocked. At the same time, trolling on talk pages should be rejected, so are the purposely-low-quality edits.

To use maps from videos in the wiki:

# Right-click the video and click ‘Open Video in New Tab’. Now you can find the name of the video in the URL

# Open the demo in your client (you need to move the demo into your <code>data/demos</code> folder)

# While you have the demo open, go into the editor, click <code>File</code>, and select <code>Load Current Map</code>

Now you can edit and use the map for the demo.

# Create a new map in the editor

# Set the background color to <code>#5E84AE</code>

#* Insert a scale if suited

# Turn demo recording on

#* I suggest <code>Settings -> General -> Automatically record demos</code>

# Join it with your client, try the trick until you are satisfied with the result and keep loopability in mind

Set consistent skin:

* Hammer: brownbear

* Pistol: coala

* Jump: bluekitty

# In your client, go to <code>Demos -> auto/</code>

# Open the demo you recorded

# Use the camera icon to save the shortened demo

Tip: you can repeat these steps multiple times to be able to cut the demo more precisely

Once you have the client, converting a demo is as simple as:

* Open the client (with the converting functionality)

* Set zoom to 10: <code>cl_default_zoom 10</code>

* Click <code>Render</code> at the bottom

Some of the following steps might be a little overwhelming. You can simply ask one of the wiki admins to do the remaining steps.

Using your preferred video editor, crop the video, so that only the relevant cutout of the video remains. You can look at other videos from the wiki to get a feel for how much you should crop.

To upload a video to the wiki first you need permissions, if you are considered a trustworthy contributor you will get them, if you consider yourself trustworthy you can ask an administrator to consider giving you the permission to upload files.

To upload a file you can go to [[Special:Upload|Upload file]] link on the sidebar.

To insert a video into an article, first you have to choose whether it fits in the text or on a side.

Usually, if the text mentions some steps to take or the video is directly related to a text, it's better to put it there like this:

<nowiki>[[File:myvideo.mp4|gif]]</nowiki>

If you consider it better to be floating on the right side, you can do this

<nowiki>[[File:myvideo.mp4|right|gif]]</nowiki>

Or with a thumb and a label:

<nowiki>[[File:myvideo.mp4|thumb|This video shows this!|gif]]</nowiki>

If you think the video is too small, you can specify a size:

<nowiki>[[File:myvideo.mp4|gif|400px]]</nowiki>

You can learn more in detail about media placement here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images

If you identify a common occurrence, such as weapon info boxes, you can automate it creating templates, more info [[mediawikiwiki:Help:Templates|here]].

List of created templates:

[[:Category:Templates|Category:Templates]]

To translate the title you can go to "Edit source" and add <code><nowiki>{{DISPLAYTITLE:Translated title}}</nowiki></code>  to the top of the page replacing "Translated title" with the title you want displayed.