How to contribute: Difference between revisions

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

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# 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

# Go [https://gitlab.com/ddnet-wiki/ddnet-wiki.gitlab.io/-/tree/master/static/videosherehere here] and download the correct demo

# 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:MyLanguage/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]].

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.

You can archive the same in the visual editor, by first linking the translated page: e.g. by typing <code>[[</code> to open the linking page. Enter <code>Jump/de</code> to link to the correct page and then modify the display text to the translated version.

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