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Revision as of 16:12, 26 April 2019 by X010 (talk | contribs) (er, that is a copypaste and will need some discussion)
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Creating rules and guidelines

Hi all, I think it's time we introduce some clear rules and guidelines for the wiki, preferably supported by consensus. Please comment on the proposals below. If you think there is another topic to be raised, feel free to add it. X010 (talk) 17:52, 26 March 2019 (GMT)

Build naming system

Currently there is no clear policy on the build naming system. I've seen a few possible options from discussions on Discord and elsewhere:

Personally,

  • that will lead to fragmentation as there is no clear 'collection' of the builds and one will simply have too many pages with the same 'depth'
  • my preference. MediaWiki recognises that it's a subpage and makes some optimisations for that; see mediawikiwiki:Subpages for details.
  • that is confusing as not only does it look cluttered, it looks like a namespace, which it isn't.
  • that would lead to fragmentation and the main pages will simply be too large

Please comment on what you think on them. If you think another option is better, please feel free to add them. X010 (talk) 17:52, 26 March 2019 (GMT)

Comments

WILSON2bGg That's pretty much the same as my first option, as the parent OS and the build will still be in the same depth. I've edited the options to make that more clear, and hence removed your option. Please let me know if it's still not correct. X010 (talk) 21:53, 26 March 2019 (GMT)

X010 I made the 1st option a little more like my proposal. WILSON2bGg (talk) 22:01, 26 March 2019 (GMT)

Result

Thanks to all for the discussion. Based on Discord conversations, there is a 2:2 deadlock on options 1 and 2. We've decided to implement option 2 in the end. X010 (talk) 22:47, 31 March 2019 (BST)

Uploading images

For some reason, I can't upload images, it gives a 503 error.--MCpillager - remember, a build list is just a lot of numbers. 17:06, 26 April 2019 (BST)

@MCpillager How are you uploading them - through a URL or through a file source? X010 (talk) 17:11, 26 April 2019 (BST)