Spring:WikiEtiquette

About this wiki

This page is about editing the springrts.com wiki so that we can all together make it nicer and useful. ♥

Any contributions you make to this Wiki are in the public domain.

Anybody can contribute

The Spring project is very dependent on its community of users to help new players and developers.

There is no need to worry about messing up if you use the preview function. Even if you "accidently the whole page" it can be reverted. Log in with your forum account but keep in mind that some account names do not work because of this bug. Just make a new/second account.

Editing Guidelines

• Write in english.
• Use the preview function.
• Do not abuse the "save page" button as preview: It clutters the Recent Changes page.
• When saving, fill out the Summary field.
• Use Templates when possible, instead of eg coloring everything "by hand".
• Generally a page should be reachable by links from other "high level" pages.
• Links to non-existent pages are bad. Avoid unless you plan to add them. Same with pages that are only a "skeleton" with no content.
• Category tag goes to bottom of page, not hidden somewhere in middle. Use existing categories when possible.

Valid Topics

• Content Creation: games, maps, scripting
• Engine development
• Trouble shooting/Help for problems with the engine
• Other development: Lobbies, download systems, various tools

Invalid Topics

• Please no game specific articles. On the respective games' webpages that is welcome though :)
• Projects that do only exist as vague plans

Pages about games/projects

If you made a game, you can (should!) create a page about it. Please keep it to one page though: The wiki is still cluttered with subpages from projects that have died years ago. If that is too restrictive, get real webspace which nowadays you can get for free on the interweb.

Forum <-> Wiki

The next time you are writing a long post or chat to explain something, consider of adding to the wiki and then link to it. You are writing the stuff anyway: So why not make it easier for others to find it again later or improve it?

To Do

Some to-do list can be found here: Spring:WikiToDo

Help on wiki synthax

See here: Help:Editing