sl.Wiki:Prerequisite

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NOTE: This article is part of our sl.Wiki section.

Contents 1 General 2 Article Naming 3 Templates

Before you start editing articles in this wiki you need to know some things.

General

• Please create an account before you start. This helps you and us to keep track of all changes. Additionally some articles can only edited by members.
• You should know the MediaWiki specifc formats. You can find a short overview on the Wiki-refcard [1]. A complete list you can find in the MediaWiki Handbook [2].
• Sometimes its usefull not to edit an article directly in the browser but to use an external editor. For Windows the Crimson editor [3] is small, but has several advances over the Notepad editor (the search function, multiple documents etc.).

Article Naming

Article names consist of 3 parts:

• The namespace defines a section in our wiki where the article belongs to. See the list of recommended categories & namespaces for an overview including comments. Currently the following namespaces are defined:
  • sl
  • sl.Wiki
  • sl.help
  • RtCW
  • ET
  • ETQW
  • FarCry

• The "real" name describes the topic of the article. Usually its written in the same language as the article.
• The country code identifies the language which is used for the article. We use ISO 3166-1 codes to identify it. Currently defined are:
  • en
  • de
  • fi

These 3 parts are glued together by a colon and a forward slash. E.g. for an article about Enemy Territory (namespace: "ET") in English (code="en") which is called "Enemy Territory is cool" the full name would be: "ET:Enemy Territory is cool/en" (of course w/o the quotes). When someone translates this article into German and names it "Enemy Territroy ist toll", then the article name would be "ET:Enemy Territroy ist toll/de".

Article names should always be in singular, e.g. "Example" instead of "Examples". If you wish you can create a redirect page, e.g. from "Examples" to "Example" with a redirect command.

Templates

We use templates to categorize articles and for some special formats. The list of available templates lists all including example and a description. Remember that templates start with double opening curly brackets "{{" followed by the template name and possibly some arguments sepreated by pipe characters "|". The template is terminated by double closing curly brackets "}}".