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| ===== Exploring the Wiki ===== | ===== Exploring the Wiki ===== |
| Two great links that taste great together: the [[https://wiki.improbableisland.com/doku.php?id=start&do=recent|list of most recently fucked-about-with pages]] and the [[https://wiki.improbableisland.com/doku.php?id=start&do=index|sitemap]], both of which can be found under "Site tools" on any page. | Two great links that taste great together: the [[https://wiki.improbableisland.com/doku.php?id=start&do=recent|list of most recently fucked-about-with pages]] and the [[https://wiki.improbableisland.com/doku.php?id=start&do=index|sitemap]], both of which can be found under "Site tools" on any page. |
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| | ===== I'm new to the Island, help! ===== |
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| | You may find the [[gameplay:guides:newbie|Unofficial Rookie Advisory]] helpful, then! Despite many of the links currently being broken while we yell at our contractors to fix them, a lot of the information remains quite generally applicable. There is also a [[gameplay:guides:start|general page of guides]] if you want more information on a specific aspect of the game (sorry about the broken links, they are coming soon, <del>I</del> we promise). |
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| ===== What goes in the Wiki? ===== | ===== What goes in the Wiki? ===== |
| This wiki is for whatever random treasure or trash you want to stuff into it, but a place can be both //neat and tidy// AND //full of random crap,// and for proof of that you can ask anyone with a workshop. Remember, especially now in these fresh-wiki-smell times, that [[https://www.dokuwiki.org/namespaces|namespaces]] work just like folders on your hard drive, and the easiest time to figure out a folder structure is BEFORE you start filling it up with stuff and going "Hmm, does the What's New page belong in Guides or Meta?" and so forth. For example, [[characters:player:cavemanjoe|CavemanJoe's character is under characters:player:cavemanjoe]] and Mister Stern's character is under [[characters:npc:misterstern|characters:npc:misterstern]] and [[meta:history|the Island's history as a website can be at meta:history]], basically the colons work like / on your hard drive, you can go as many levels deep as seems appropriate. It'll be a lot easier to decide this structure //now//, in late 2023, than it will be to decide it later and move a bunch of pages. | This wiki is for whatever random treasure or trash you want to stuff into it, but a place can be both //neat and tidy// AND //full of random crap,// and for proof of that you can ask anyone with a workshop. Remember, especially now in these fresh-wiki-smell times, that [[https://www.dokuwiki.org/namespaces|namespaces]] work just like folders on your hard drive, and the easiest time to figure out a folder structure is BEFORE you start filling it up with stuff and going "Hmm, does the What's New page belong in Guides or Meta?" and so forth. For example, [[characters:player:cavemanjoe|CavemanJoe's character is under characters:player:cavemanjoe]] and Mister Stern's character is under [[characters:npc:misterstern|characters:npc:misterstern]] and [[meta:history|the Island's history as a website can be at meta:history]], basically the colons work like / on your hard drive, you can go as many levels deep as seems appropriate. It'll be a lot easier to decide this structure //now//, in late 2023, than it will be to decide it later and move a bunch of pages. |
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| See [[https://oldwiki.improbableisland.com/doku.php?do=index|this?]] That's the sitemap to the old wiki. As you can see, there's maybe two or three folders of stuff like Places guides that's decently organized, and then a mishmash of random pages inside the root of the site. How are folk supposed to find your cool stuff? It's like having your family photos, your memes and your tax documents all stuffed into the same folder in a tangled mess. Yeah, we're not gonna do that this time round, we know better now. If you have an idea for a page and there doesn't seem to be an appropriate folder ("namespace" in wiki-words) for it, you can conjure one into existence just by typing it out when making a new page. | See [[https://oldwiki.improbableisland.com/doku.php?do=index|this?]] That's the sitemap to the old wiki. As you can see, there's maybe two or three folders of stuff like Places guides that's decently organized, and then a mishmash of random pages inside the root of the site. How are folk supposed to find your cool stuff? It's like having your family photos, your memes and your tax documents all stuffed into the same folder in a tangled mess. Yeah, we're not gonna do that this time round, we know better now. If you have an idea for a page and there doesn't seem to be an appropriate folder ("namespace" in wiki-words) for it, you can conjure one into existence just by typing it out when making a new page. (There is a draft outline of namespaces available [[playground:wikitalk|here]], in case you want examples rather than just looking at the sitemap to see what already exists.) |
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| ===== Making new pages: two ways ===== | ===== Making new pages: two ways ===== |
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| == A Suggestion of Where to Put Stuff, as One Player Has Practiced It == | == A Suggestion of Where to Put Stuff, as One Player Has Practiced It == |
| | ** This tree is largely accurate, but has been superseded by the discussion [[playground:wikitalk|here]]**. |
| * Characters: individuals of the island, subdivided into | * Characters: individuals of the island, subdivided into |
| * npc - non-player-controlled characters like Mister Stern, Maiko, Seth, Emily, Dan, etc. | * npc - non-player-controlled characters like Mister Stern, Maiko, Seth, Emily, Dan, etc. |