err, is it just me or are the class weapon pictures not showing up :/

I've been doing the Sniper weapons section, and when I went through the primaries, the images didn't show up for more than an hour. Currently doing the secondaries, and the same problem is back. It might just fix itself over time.

it's a known issue with mediawiki, we're working on it
to be more specific, the wiki can't automatically downsize images

I will look into it later today, currently on lunch break so not much I can do.

Really thanks! Means a lot! But I couldn't have done it without the help of everyone editing the wiki, major props to them!

By the way, just to look at the huge work put into the wiki already, we went from this to this in 2 days, we are really a fantastic community!

PS: Don't forget to join our steamgroup, and if possible invite all your friends to it. It really supports and helps spread the site. Also thinking about future contests to promote the activity and quality articles on the wiki. (maybe even a 6v6 newbie tournament sponsored by us later on).

Please start cataloging pages under categories

To do that you just need to put the tag [[Category:Name]] at the start or end of each page

To create templates to use on pages use the Template:templatename (as the page title, so you have to create it with that name) and just create it like you normally would, then to include it in another page you just need to use {{templatename}}

someone killed the offclassing page

i wrote it specifically for scout and in an order that made sense when reading it from top to bottom. it looks strange now

I've reordered the Offclass page to have the same order of classes as did the Scout page originally.

I've actually removed all the content from the original Scout page and linked to the Offclass article instead earlier, but that's purely because offclasses aren't intrinsic to the Scout, so having a separate page seems like a better idea than copying the same material to the Soldier/Roamer pages.

I updated the player info template drought created.

You can start creating player pages easily now using the template in this page http://comp.tf/wiki/Template:Player_infobox

I really wanted to have an automated template that would add the country flagicons to each country, but I have no idea how to do it.

Same for links, for example add an automatic image to steam profile with the steam icon, youtube icon for youtube account, twitch, etc... If anyone can help me out let me know

Link doesn't work?

my bad, fixed
http://comp.tf/wiki/Template:Player_infobox

You can see it in action
here

http://comp.tf/wiki/Heavy#Primary

U can b sneky hevy man wiht tihs gun,

http://comp.tf/wiki/Epsilon_eSports

http://comp.tf/wiki/Template:Team_infobox

Team infobox created

still couldn't get thumbnails to work

I guess now would be a good time to say I hope you're backing up everything (off-site!?!)

The weapons are in a mess. There isn't enough room on a class page to include weapon info and playstyles. Stop putting anything but a list of weapons on class pages.

Are mod member "applications" still open? I'm planning to work on a lot of the formatting for the links and map pages as well.

I'd like some opinions on whether we are set on doing the formatting similar to http://comp.tf/wiki/Cp_badlands (Badlands), or http://comp.tf/wiki/Koth_pro_viaduct_rc3 (Viaduct Pro) -- I remember someone posting about it earlier in response to my original idea.

I want to follow that up and hopefully have a consensus on these, so I can get to work on others maps, if possible.

Anything else we need to work on? I've got a few days with nothing to do -- and I want to help out this wiki as much as I can. :)

http://i.imgur.com/hSzbF4O.png

http://img.acianetmedia.com/i/Ppxt7.gif

later scout

always has been. but soldier and demo and med are better core classes, hense why scout is used instead of heavies for picks instead of "more core"

and seriously, highlander is a thing you know

doesn't matter if it's technically true, nobody cares about that. when you think of core competitive classes, it's medic soldier demo scout. heavy is support.

why so angry
also meh.

As for the first part, I don't think it would be very hard to do, but to avoid any problems, the icons need to be uploaded on-site, so that nothing weird happens. And uploading flags one by one (curse you MediaWiki!) will be a pain. Maybe you can get them in a separate folder on the server or something, without actually uploading them onto the wiki?

The second part is done.
http://comp.tf/wiki/Template:YouTube
http://comp.tf/wiki/Template:Steam (supports only unique IDs now, I doubt it'll be much of a problem. Also fetching Steam icons would probably require fiddling with the Steam API, as the avatar URLs don't seem to follow any particular template, as far as I'm aware)
http://comp.tf/wiki/Template:Twitch

Didn't do it yet. But I will now! :)
Always have the host daily backups if needed

Weapon templates should really be standardized accross the entire wiki.

The current templates are not dynamic (not using variables) so they would be a pain in the ass to update each at a time, we need the same template for every class for all types of weapons.
I made a quick mock up in paint, please don't take it seriously, but it's a bit more compact then the ones in use and I feel it would make up more space for what we really need to talk about which is strategies and uses of that specific weapons in each format. Not sure what you think about it. http://i.imgur.com/IjPpzkZ.jpg

Also, I'm still not entirely sure weapons should be talked about in the main class page or only on the specific class page for each gamemode, what do you think? The problem here is that if we talk on the main page, visitors can see the difference in bans from one game mode to another where if we talk on the specific gamemode page it wouldn't have that much of a comparison purpose

what shadow was trying to say was, we are not a 6v6 centered wiki, we are a competitive centered wiki, so we have to be impartial with that. The best solution here altogether wpuld be to remove the class roles in the main page and only include them in the specific gamemode pages to avoid further discussion

I could definitely do that, let me just find a pack with properly named flags with standard icon size and I will upload directly through ftp, it should work

Those templates are sick btw, but any chance you could remove the text altogether and just leave the image linking to the profile? Or create new templates for Icon only without text. I think it would look more like in liquidpedia and certainly look much better when grouped in player profiles

Yes as always, but you don't need to be mod to help out as you know. I am not adding anymore mods in the near future tho because we already have 9 people in our team and I think that's more than enough for now. But if you show enough quality work of course I will invite you to the team, regardless of the number of mods.

Maps need to be rethinked, I think we should base ourselves in something like this and this, we should definitly work on a template infobox for maps similar to that one for use on all map pages. If no one creates it meanwhile I will do it when I have time.

As for what we need work? Everything! :D Almost every single page and bit of content needs work, we are still in a very young phase. But a cool way to know what you can do is check the To do page

I can do that, sure. By the way, can you get this extension installed? It would help a lot with so much template stuff. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ParserFunctions

give me 5 mins

What are its features btw?

It allows conditional instructions (if/switch) that make creating templates much easier. For example, I'll be able to switch between text/no text in the templates I created without having to create a new one.

I see... Done btw

Also, should I enable this or not? (I enabled it already just in case but I'm not so sure what it does and apparently it's optional

A note, please keep the weapons in chronological order on the weapons pages.

Make some invite player pages if anyone can.

No, I don't think that's necessary. Thanks for installing the plugin, I'll get cracking on stuff after I'm done writing some articles.

You can always do them yourself! Thats the wiki purpose!
comp.tf/wiki/Template:Player_infobox

The icon-only templates for YouTube/Steam/Twitch are done now.