Armagetron Advanced - User contributions [en]

Help:Contents

2006-01-17T23:04:01Z

Luckyboyzz:

Do you need help?

Before sending your help request to /dev/null, you might want to check a few other sources. You may also want to read up on [[Armagetron_Advanced_Wiki:Policy]] wiki policies.

== Creating a New Page ==

To add a new page to the wiki, first find the page that belongs on top of it. For example, if you want to add a new page that gives new tips and tricks for players, go to the [[Player Tricks]] page and add it to the appropriate place. Come up with a title for your page and insert it into the text like this:

<nowiki>
[[Your Page Title]]
</nowiki>

It will look like a regular link, but it will be red. Click on the link and you will see a box where you can edit it.

=== Style ===

As remarked below, use proper heading styles. Write a brief paragraph describing the topic at the beginning without a heading. It will be displayed above the generated table of contents and will be slightly easier to read. If you want a longer introduction, feel free to make an <nowiki>== Introduction ==</nowiki> area, but always make the first paragraph without a heading. It's the same way Wikipedia does it and it happens to work very well.

== Editing a Page ==

There is a [[SandBox]] for you to get started in. Go there and fool around and see if you get the hang of editing a page.

Editing a page is really very simple. To mark something as a heading, use a number of equal signs.

<nowiki>
=== Heading ===
</nowiki>

Looks like:

=== Heading ===

The wiki will generate a table of contents based on headings, so make sure you use them and use them well. Start with a depth of 2, i.e. <nowiki>== First Heading ==</nowiki> and then put 3 for the next section that's inside this one. It will generate a table of contents like this:

1.1 Section
1.1.1 Subsection
1.2 Section

Each equal sign used in the heading adds another digit, essentially. If that doesn't make sense, experiment on the [[SandBox]] with it.

Use the apostrophe to emphasize stuff.

<nowiki>I ''like'' Chinese food. I '''love''' Thai food. I ''''''prefer'''''' Texan food.</nowiki>

I ''like'' Chinese food. I '''love''' Thai food. I ''''''prefer'''''' Texan food.

For more advanced stuff, please [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing Read the Fine Manual].

== Adding a picture ==

Press the "embedded image" button. "[ [Image:Example.jpg] ]" will appear where the text cursor is. (NOTE: The brackets will not have a space inbetween eachother.) When you preveiw page, There will now be a link like this: [[Image:Example.jpg]]. Click the link, there will be a secion called "Source File Name". Click browse and find the image you want to upload into the wiki. After youve found that, go there will be a space titled "Destination Filename" right below the section before. Delete the "Example.jpg" that it says now, and name the file anything you want. Make sure you dont drop the extention. It tells you the extensions there. When your all done, click "Upload". Hit the back button on your browser and delete the "Example.jpg" part out of the brackets. You should now have "[[Image:]]" Add the filepath name after the Image: and before the brackets, don't forget the extension! You can now click veiw page or save options and the picture will be there.

If you want your picture to be on the right of your text, add |right|thumbnail after your filename, and before the brackets.

=== Example ===
<pre>
<nowiki>[[Image:ICON_FOUR.png|center|thumbnail|A tron light-cycle]]</nowiki>
</pre>
[[Image:ICON_FOUR.png|center|thumbnail|A tron light-cycle]]

== External Links ==

To hide a link in a different, clickable word, click the external link button. <nowiki>[http://www.example.com link title]</nowiki> will appear. Erase everything inside the brackets and type in the address, followed by a space, followed by what word(s) you want to be able to click to go to the link.

== Documentation ==

This wiki is powered by MediaWiki, so you should [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation look at MediaWiki's documentation] to learn more.

== Problems with Users ==

You should take problems with users to their talk pages first, secondly to the forums. If a user is just plain being abusive, you can email the administrator, but your best bet is to go to the forums.

The administrator of this wiki is mostly Lucifer, because it's on his server. But other moderators will be created as needed, and if you just need to get his attention, you'll have the best luck on the forums (until I figure out how to set up emailing from the wiki, that is).
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Talk:Main Page

2006-01-17T23:03:41Z

Luckyboyzz:

Any particular reason your locking everything? I thought it was for players to edit and add stuff they thought people should know?

--TiTnAsS

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I locked exactly two pages, the main page, and the page that explains why I locked the main page. ''--Lucifer''

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Yarr, but why was the other one locked? O_o

--TiTnAsS

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So nobody could edit it? Maybe you could read it and find out, that way I don't have to type the reason twice. ''--Lucifer''

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Just a reminder for Luci: make the lag section. Also, can we get a game mode section?

-- TiTnAsS

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You're getting a Miscellaneous section, and periodically when complete sections develop from it then we'll worry about how to link them in, right?

Also, a player's guide. You can talk about lag and game modes there. Makes sense, right? Server Admin Guide, Player Guide.

''--Lucifer''

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Yup, sounds good.

-- TiTnAsS

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How about having the wiki policy on the front page?

-- TiTnAsS

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Is that so people who post to the talk page of the front page will remember to leave their name and a horizontal line?

Other than that, it doesn't really belong here. A feed of newest pages would be better. I'll look at what wikipedia uses for their front page, that's along the lines of what should be here. ''--Lucifer''

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I'm sry i actually thought i did..

- TiTnAsS

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Can we get rid of that News section and make it a link, the each day put the date and the new news? We would put the new news on top, but never delete the old, and if there wasnt any news just say No significant news today. That would be cool to be able to look back on past news and stuff. (in the following i wasnt sure how to color text, but the "IMPORANT" would be red :). The kind of news that would go here is:

== News ==

IMPORTANT: 1/1/06:
New ArmagetronAD version 1.0.0 "Bacchus" has been released. It
includes all of the following fixes and features:
blah blah blah...

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12/9/05:
Lucifer has been elected President of the United States, ALL
REJOICE! Now cannibalism is legal!

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12/5/05:
Tigers Network has returned! Its back with better settings
then ever, some of the new settings include: new flying cycles,
a statue in the middle dedicated to Tank Program and an all new
moviepack!

[[User:TiTnAsS|TiTnAsS]] 19:08, 29 October 2005 (CDT)
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Go read the MediaWiki docs and figure out how to do it and I'll be happy to do it. I tried already to get it to show a feed of latest articles, I'd like that and about 4-5 news items. I think that would be cool. --[[User:Lucifer|Lucifer]] 19:37, 29 October 2005 (CDT)

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- [[User:Nemostultae|nemostultae]] 20:15, 29 October 2005 (CDT)

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We don't need special commands to do it, ill make one and you can revert if you guys dun like it okey?

[[User:TiTnAsS|TiTnAsS]] 21:27, 29 October 2005 (CDT)

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Why oh why. Hm. Yeah, we do need special commands to do it. Ideally, each news item would be a separate, detailed article, and we'd just feed the headlines and summaries to the front page. Over time, doing it manually becomes very difficult to maintain, and eventually makes it impossible to do certain things with the news. Pretty frustrating.

--[[User:Lucifer|Lucifer]] 21:29, 29 October 2005 (CDT)

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check how it is now, i think that is fine for now. Or at least give it a try? it wont be to much of a pain to maintain... besides i like the colors :).. if not ill put it back :/

[[User:TiTnAsS|TiTnAsS]] 21:44, 29 October 2005 (CDT)

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We're on the same page for what it looks like, but you're going to have to trust me that a manually-edited feed is a pain to maintain. Here, look at this:
http://jameshoward.us/Main_Page

Also, dark colors on light or light colors on dark, but never light colors on light. Reason? Visually impaired people can't read them at all. Except for the really blind, who use a screen reader, but I imagine those folks aren't likely to be playing the game in the first place.

--[[User:Lucifer|Lucifer]] 21:51, 29 October 2005 (CDT)

ok so here are my suggestions for the main page. if this is the first page that potential new players visit, which it should be, then there should be several screen shots, and possible some art and a title of some sort other than Main Page. ---''raoul''

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It's not actually supposed to be the first page potential players visit, we have a new website for that. This is for people already playing, and for new players who have found the game and played it and want to learn more.

--[[User:Lucifer|Lucifer]] 03:34, 30 October 2005 (CST)

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on the main page, How about putting pictures of light cycle with long trails and having quotes from players written on the trails?

(pinkbike)-(trail)better then Bottled water-nemo(/trail)

(purplebike)-(trail)try the crack pipe-luci(/trail)

etc etc

-- Your_mom

* Sure, upload the graphics (link in the toolbox on the lower left) and come back here and put the filenames and I'll take care of it. --[[User:Lucifer|Lucifer]] 18:36, 2 November 2005 (CST)

* what size should they be? i have it at 915x35 wxh of course should the tail be shorter/longer? and what colors--Your_mom
** Try not to make the width more than 200px unless you really need a few extra pixels. A hard limit of about 275. Then whatever height you need. Colors? I don't know, pick some. :) Also, can you make one with alpha instead of cycle color? And without text on the trail? I could use that at some point to use dynamic colors and text. :) --[[User:Lucifer|Lucifer]] 19:19, 2 November 2005 (CST)
*** http://wiki.armagetronad.net/index.php/Image:Bikewht.png i have different colored ones is this what we where looking for --Your_mom
*** I don't know, is that what you were thinking? That's about the width you generally want on a web page where you need to intersperse text with the graphics, but is it what you were thinking about how it should look? --[[User:Lucifer|Lucifer]] 19:59, 2 November 2005 (CST) (P.S. if you use <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki> for your signature, your wiki username and a timestamp will be put there instead)
***[[image:Biketest1000.png|left|]] can you right over top of that inside the wiki?, think that would be ok?, yeah it wasnt the look i was going for, but this is slightly better -- [[User:Your mom|Your mom]] 20:21, 2 November 2005 (CST)
**** The cycle's kinda small. Maybe a larger cycle? It's ok if the cycle size doesn't quite go with the wall size, that makes the picture more cartoony anyway. I know you can associate text with an image, but I don't know if you can specify whether to show the text on top or on bottom of the picture. --[[User:Lucifer|Lucifer]] 20:25, 2 November 2005 (CST)

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image#Putting_text_in_an_image.2C_superimposing_images.2C_e.g._for_locator_maps http://wiki.armagetronad.net/index.php/Image:Bikex5.png
-- [[User:Your mom|Your mom]] 20:57, 2 November 2005 (CST)

<div style="position: relative">[[Image:Bikex5.png]]
<div style="position: absolute; left: 35px; top: -3px">
{| style="background:transparent"
|-
| <em style="color:white;font-style:normal">testing this is for the weaks- blah blah</em>
|}
</div>
</div>

if i knew how to change font size and color it might look better-- mom
* Looks like you've just about got it. Here's a little trick that might come in handy, though. Say you put two spans right next to each other with no distance between them. Make one have in the background the cycle and the first part of the wall, and put a   in the foreground. However many &nbsp's you need to make it fit. Then in the other put a tile-able background that is the rest of the wall. Then you should be able to put text in such a way as to stretch the second span so cover the whole phrase, within reasonable sizes of phrases. --[[User:Lucifer|Lucifer]] 22:02, 2 November 2005 (CST)
** I dont quite follow -- [[User:Your mom|Your mom]] 22:17, 2 November 2005 (CST)
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Heh, when you figure it out tell me, i wanna post one in ym names link. It'll say "THE DRUMMER FROM ''''''DEF LEPPARD'''''' ONLY HAS ONE ARM!!"-Blood Hound Gang.. lol

[[User:TiTnAsS|TiTnAsS]] 18:59, 3 November 2005 (CST)

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Hows that luci still look/sound like a good idea? i can post different color bikes. finished testing for now. - [[User:Your mom|Your mom]] 22:07, 2 November 2005 (CST)

<div style="position: relative">[[Image:Bikex5.png]]
<div style="position: absolute; left: 33px; top: -3px">
{| style="background:transparent"
|-
| <em style="color:white;font-style:normal"><font size="1">"thedrummerfromdeafleaperdonlyhasonearm!"-bhg</font></em>-tna
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-mom again

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Luci, i caught my mistake before you did, check my user info >.<..
lol

[[User:TiTnAsS|TiTnAsS]] 22:10, 3 November 2005 (CST)

* I saw that, but you still didn't catch it before I did. :) --[[User:Lucifer|Lucifer]] 22:58, 3 November 2005 (CST)

== the main page ==

1
could you add a section to do with the history
as in
who designed the game
something about the film
that kind of thing?

2
what on earth is
extending armagetron advanced
meant to mean?
as a newbe
must i click on it to understand it?
surely the title is meant to mean something
before i click on it?

3
the game is simple
and startup for me was supersmooth
given the amount of energy generated from playing
(
i mean
we love getting on the grid
)
the wiki mainpage
could be a little more embracing
i have been around here a few times
and it is a little tricky to work out where is what
.
you know
something like:
newbe introduction page
that kind of thing
simple
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