June 13th, 2009, 10:29 pm
Wiki up
Our wiki is now up! To start us off, I have obtained permission from Broodkiller and DiscipleofAdun to move Starcraft: Unravelled (SCU) to Modcrafters. All significant pages have now been exported and imported to our wiki.
Purpose
The website frontend will utilize the wiki for its core data, fetching from certain protected pages. These pages will in turn fetch from different categories to compile sortable databases. Pages hooked to these categories will use specialized templates to package the data used by the tables. The website will present the information retrieved seamlessly and simply.
Deeper down the rabbit hole, the wiki will endlessly expand to consume all knowledge of Starcraft modding. Proper organization will be paramount, with the goal to deliver this information clearly and concisely without overwhelming the view with lists of links or walls of text. We want practical, user-friendly organization.
Editing
Currently, editing is restricted to a select few. Our trial run shall being with the following users, with more to be added as time goes on: BroodKiller, Voyager, poiuy_qwert, Corbo, bajadulce, A_of_s_t, Polaris. These people have been selected based on their past contributions toward teaching and promoting modding.
Logging In
You log in with the same username and password as your forum account. The wiki now refers to the forum's user database instead of using its own. A member must belong to a special usergroup in order to log into the wiki, however. This usergroup is titled "Scribes", and serves as a handy membership control. Right now, the group is closed, meaning I must manually add anyone wishing to contribute to the wiki, but later on I can set it to "Request" (and therefore will be able to take in requests to join), or "Open" (allowing anyone to join freely).
Location
In case you haven't noticed, or if lurking as a guest, there is a Wiki subforum here in News that will redirect you to the wiki. Only registered viewers are set to see this, however. The full web address is www.modcrafters.com/wiki.
Purpose
The website frontend will utilize the wiki for its core data, fetching from certain protected pages. These pages will in turn fetch from different categories to compile sortable databases. Pages hooked to these categories will use specialized templates to package the data used by the tables. The website will present the information retrieved seamlessly and simply.
Deeper down the rabbit hole, the wiki will endlessly expand to consume all knowledge of Starcraft modding. Proper organization will be paramount, with the goal to deliver this information clearly and concisely without overwhelming the view with lists of links or walls of text. We want practical, user-friendly organization.
Editing
Currently, editing is restricted to a select few. Our trial run shall being with the following users, with more to be added as time goes on: BroodKiller, Voyager, poiuy_qwert, Corbo, bajadulce, A_of_s_t, Polaris. These people have been selected based on their past contributions toward teaching and promoting modding.
Logging In
You log in with the same username and password as your forum account. The wiki now refers to the forum's user database instead of using its own. A member must belong to a special usergroup in order to log into the wiki, however. This usergroup is titled "Scribes", and serves as a handy membership control. Right now, the group is closed, meaning I must manually add anyone wishing to contribute to the wiki, but later on I can set it to "Request" (and therefore will be able to take in requests to join), or "Open" (allowing anyone to join freely).
Location
In case you haven't noticed, or if lurking as a guest, there is a Wiki subforum here in News that will redirect you to the wiki. Only registered viewers are set to see this, however. The full web address is www.modcrafters.com/wiki.
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