sure i'll help when i can with what i can (i do actually know html some css and such not that it matters apparently
why dont you just make a list for the wiki of people who play on the server. Those who play usually know and multiple sources are better than a few. Plus, if I'm scouring the net and find some extra info it'd be nice to just beable to add it in and get it approved by someone later than have to make a thread for it.
I'm not sure if 'applications' for this are still open. If not, ignore this I guess, but if they are, I’d like to contribute to the wiki. I'm not knowledgeable on all mods, although I’d like to think that I can write a comprehensive article on any mod, as long as I do the research (which I will of course do). I also think that I'm good at tidying up articles/expanding on stubs. If someone fitting my capabilities is needed, I'll gladly fill the roll.
To be honest, I while I agree modpack access should be something that is gated, why are we gating access to the wiki? Open it up to anyone with a SKCraft account in good standing (aka, not banned). If someone makes shitty edits, remove them; for everyone else, just let those who want to contribute do so. I don't think whitelisting those who are already whitelisted makes sense. Just allow everyone who can play on SK to edit the wiki, and remove the tiny minority who make poor contributions.
We are gating access because the wiki software is something I wrote from scratch in a matter of two or three days, and it's missing a small number of essential functions such as "revert all of a specific user." I was planning to finish it up pretty soon but the unexpected rebalance has put everything on hold for a few weeks now.
I didn't even see this until now, have been gone for a while. Kinda back now. Will likely hang out in the forums more than ingame, juggling two time-consuming games (WoW and SKCraft) is pretty difficult. I'll definitely help with the wiki though. Why not simply keep the Wikimedia software? It was good enough and it has all necessary functions.
It's a lot of work to edit and organize pages. I can write like 10 pages in the time it takes to write one page with MediaWiki.
It's definitely true that there are better markups than MediaWiki, but when you use a standard like that, you gain the value of learning that everyone acquired on the other Wiki. In other words, if doing this as a one-person editing, a unique markup has value; when trying to leverage the work of a community, then not sharing the markup of other major sites is a detriment. In addition, there are many existing wikis that support very clean syntaxes, such as Markdown.
Well, that would be the case if the wiki used markup, but I find having to write code to edit a page is silly. Pages are edited with a WYSIWYG editor like Word. Very few wiki software packages support this adequately. Even this forum's editor is pretty poor. The wiki also takes care of a lot of things such as linking to other pages, navigation, categories, item tables, and so on, which other wiki software require that you do yourself. Really, the best part is that you can just throw words on the screen, hit Save, and you're done. Nothing more to do.
The "word type" editor is nice, but personally, when offered plaintext with markup or a wordlike editor, I always choose the plaintext one, simply because sometimes the user has more control over things. There also are some very good markup types that are pretty elegant, such as markdown (which is what reddit uses). I also found this, although it doesn't seem to be active, nor public.
Okay, yeah, I hate tables when using markup/HTML. But why not have a toggle-able editor - one mode with, say, markdown or bbcode or sanitized HTML, and the other with WYSIWYG. Then we can get the best of both.
