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MediaWiki Extensions Wishlist

Post what extensions you would like to see on the wiki.

Extension	Notes
ParserFunctions	For flexible templates
Pipe Escape
ConfirmEdit	For spam control, although Kornel said he will think this out first.
Semantic MediaWiki	To automatically generate lists (such as list of deep elves and Table of Armours), and allow users to make custom queries.
Scribunto	Templates written in Lua (probably something better than ParserFunctions)

ParserFunctions is crucial for creating elegant, flexible templates. Please install ASAP. Pex 11:49, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Whose palm do we have to grease to get ParserFunctions installed? This type of functionality could be very useful--Petzl 08:49, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

In January we'll be upgrading the ChaosForge Wiki's to 1.20, which will add ParserFunctions from core. If by February this isn't done, you can officially stab me with a pointy thing until it's done --Epyon 06:26, 20 December 2012 (CET)

It's February... -- Roy 02:22, 21 February 2013 (CET)

Semantic MediaWiki would offer two main advantages. First, most lists and tables on the wiki could be automatically generated. This means that most existing lists/tables could be kept automatically in sync, and it also means that adding more useful tables would be trivial. For example, I think it might be nice to have, on every page like list of deep elves, a summary table showing HP, HD, MR, etc., of each monster. The second advantage is that users can make custom queries, such as "show me all backgrounds and their starting spells" (i.e., spells from the starting spell books). -- Roy 18:29, 17 February 2013 (CET)

Style guide

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Old site

The old wiki has been put up at old-crawl.chaosforge.org. Username: old_crawl, Password: dungeon. --Flun 15:36, 24 March 2013 (CET)

Okay, does anyone know why the password on the old site stopped working? I was migrating a bunch of species articles and then it died... I hope I wasn't doing something incorrectly. -Ion frigate 23:38, 20 December 2012 (CET)

Should be fixed now. Next time e-mail me as soon as something like that happens! --Epyon 23:56, 20 December 2012 (CET)

Thanks! I will, next time. -Ion frigate 00:04, 21 December 2012 (CET)

Background articles

Just a general notice, I think a lot of these may be outdated, and they also tend to be woefully short. Admittedly, background isn't that significant, and I think that's why a lot of these articles haven't gotten much attention, but still, it's something we should work on (although it probably will have to wait until we have most or all of the articles moved over).

Something that will likely take a while

Just a general notice: redirects. They're never in categories on the old wiki, meaning they can't be conveniently exported. Thus, they're pretty much going to have to be created manually. So, if you see a red link in an article, search to see if the topic already exists, and if it does, create a redirect. -Ion frigate 02:14, 23 December 2012 (CET)

Strategy guides

A general guideline I think we should adopt for anyone writing a guide, and one that should be retroactively applied to already-written guides as much as possible: say the version(s) you are basing your guide on. That should give newer players a decent impression of how up-to-date/out-of-date the guide is. -Ion frigate 22:32, 6 February 2013 (CET)

This should probably apply to all articles - perhaps it should be a goal to tag every page with a version? -- Roy 20:43, 18 February 2013 (CET)

Wiki engine upgrade update

I sent Kornel an email about when the upgrade is coming. He is at the moment busy with getting a new version of DoomRL out and doing some server upgrades.

   At the moment the VPS split is our primary objective. Once that is
   done, we need to setup the dummy DoomRL modserver (also primary
   objective because it's stalling the 0.9.9.7 release :( ), and then
   we'll be updating all MediaWiki installations.

--Flun 15:41, 22 February 2013 (CET)

Inception

On the main page I found today a red link of "inception". The wiki search mask didn't give any hints what this could be. But especially on the main page there should remain NO red links longer than one day! Anybody able to "blue" it with some contents that males sense? -- Bwijn 11:05, 30 March 2013 (CET)

Whatever it WAS it's no longer there now. I'm removing it from the page. --MoogleDan 14:22, 30 March 2013 (CET)

"Inception" is the name of the branch where the new Abyss was developed. I guess that this branch was available in CSZO for testing purposes, and later it was removed when inception was merged into master. --CommanderC 19:35, 30 March 2013 (CET)

Attack Speed articles

I've seen that Attack Speed and Attack speed are both articles that exist, although it looks like Attack Speed is just an older version (0.11, to be precise). Is there a policy on keeping articles around that refer to old versions? If not, I propose turning the Attack Speed article into a redirect only. Antdos 16:30, 15 June 2013 (CEST)

Yeah, a redirect would be a good idea. There should be only once copy of that article. --Flun 16:58, 15 June 2013 (CEST)

I think the general rule is: if it's something currently in the game (not counting trunk), it should be updated and any outdated versions/pages should be deleted. If something is removed from the game, mark it as obsolete and keep the page for historical reference. --Lokkij 20:30, 15 June 2013 (CEST)

The Tavern & the wiki

I've seen some people on the Tavern saying this wiki is *not an accurate source of information*. This might be true for some articles, but really, most of them are up-to-date and have version tags if they aren't. So why are they saying that?
Also, if there isn't already, it might be a good idea to make a I-noticed-a-mistake-on-the-wiki-but-I'm-too-lazy-to-correct-it-thread (although it might have to be renamed :P). Do you think that would work? --Lokkij 22:39, 22 June 2013 (CEST)