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| Blazinghand United States. July 22 2011 08:38. Posts 12225 | Profile Blog # |
My initial thought is: check out the list of stubs
 Category:Stubs
and find something that interest you and start researching/adding!
If you're more interested in copy editing or something, there's plenty of work to be done there as well. |
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| Stijx United States. July 25 2011 22:32. Posts 786 | Profile Blog # |
I had a question, and wasn't too sure about where to post it. So i'll post it here in the hopes it get's answered.
I've noticed there is no Template for casters on Liquipedia, would it be better to use the Player Template like other's have been doing or should I make a Caster Template? |
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| Stijx United States. July 27 2011 23:04. Posts 786 | Profile Blog # |
On July 27 2011 04:39 Noam wrote:
Show nested quote +On July 22 2011 08:29 Stijx wrote:
I've recently taken an interest in writing for Liquipedia as I have a lot of time on my hands, love writing and love everything Starcraft. I wanted to ask what exactly is important to be done, and what can I do that will make a different to the wiki?
Someone recently asked me a similar question, I'll paste my reply: IMO the best place to start would be in the area you are the most interested in. Some articles don't exist and simply need someone to compile all the data and write it in the standard liquipedia formatting. For tournaments we have compiled a List of Tournaments without a pageFor players the list is Template:Notable Players Without Their Own Liquipedia PageYou can also add to these lists if you notice something missing from them but cannot make the page yourself. If don't want to start off the bat with a whole page, you can take a look at Category:Stubs and its many sub-categories to see if you can help expand a page which is lacking. There are many problematic strategy articles which are listed in their stub category. And as was recently announced, the new Recent Tournament Results page is always looking for people to update it as soon as possible. About the Caster Template: Can you describe how a Caster template would differ from the Player template? The Player Template already has several attributes which are relevant for casters such as: site, stream, twitter, videoarchive. You can see a complete list here: Template:Infobox Player/doc
It would only differ slightly. The player pages as you say have all the correct sections there, but also some unnecessary ones. I would remove the "WOL Matches" and "Beta Matches" section, and turn it in to a "Notable WOL Events Casted" and "Notable Beta Events Casted" section. But even with that you could say that the information can just be included in the "Wings of Liberty" and "In Beta" sections, and you'd be right. So for a caster it would be either the removal of the two mentioned sections or the changing of them in to a "casted" section.
I ask only because I noticed that caster pages were rather bare, and casters are very important to the SC2 scene, much more so than they were to BW.
I've also gotten in contact with most of the well known casters and had them tell me some about their history and how they got started, what they're doing now etc... And when making these pages it would be good to have one set way to write them all.
Also, I'll have a look at those Tournament pages.
edit: I just realized, are the templates meant as just the box at the top, or the entire page? That might lead to some confusion in what I'm saying! I meant the page as a whole when i said "Template"
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| CDRdude United States. July 29 2011 18:10. Posts 5414 | Profile Blog # |
Is there a way to get to the non-mobile version of liquipedia from an iDevice? This is what it looks like for me right now:
+ Show Spoiler +![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/9y4t1.jpg) Landscape mode is no different. |
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| Stijx United States. July 29 2011 22:38. Posts 786 | Profile Blog # |
On July 29 2011 18:10 CDRdude wrote:Is there a way to get to the non-mobile version of liquipedia from an iDevice? This is what it looks like for me right now: + Show Spoiler +Landscape mode is no different.
Unfortunately, as far as I know there is no way to turn that off.
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| LoNeLyTrOoPeR United States. August 10 2011 15:58. Posts 23 | Profile # |
| Can I be an editor please? Last edit: 2011-08-10 16:07:12 |
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| iMAniaC Norway. August 11 2011 09:34. Posts 463 | Profile # |
I was taking a look at the special page Uncategorized pages and a very large part of those are brackets and subpages, so I thought it might be nice to have some sort of automation so that they get put into categories automatically.
Unfortunately, I don't have any specific suggestion as to what that automation would do. On the one hand, it would be nice to have pure brackets go into Category:Brackets, but it would become a very large (and perhaps eventually useless) category. It might also be convenient to have pages with slashes in their titles go into a category named Category:TitleBeforeSlash Subpages (so that North American Star League Season 1/Open Tournament/Bracket A would automatically go into Category:North American Star League Season 1 Subpages). Or perhaps even have brackets go into Category:TitleBeforeSlash Brackets, though that would perhaps prove to be a too narrow category to be of any use. And, of course, those suggestions are not mutually exclusive. Still, it might get tricky to get the automation to provide sensible results, like not throwing all pages containing brackets into the Brackets category, or having automation depend on the name and not a template etc. In the end, I just wanted to mention it in this thread so that those who know the templates and inner workings of LP better than I do, might get a few ideas or get inspired to work out something awesome.Last edit: 2011-08-11 09:35:35 |
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| flowSthead August 18 2011 23:21. Posts 1035 | Profile Blog # |
I recently edited one of the older tournament pages (HomeStory Cup). When I've made edits on newer stuff, it is usually reviewed within a day, while this one hasn't been. I realize people are busy, so it may just be that they have other stuff to do. But I was wondering if new changes show up for liquipedia staff that they see it? If not, could I request someone to review it or something?
Again, if people are just busy then it's no rush. |
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| Tryxtira Sweden. August 29 2011 19:05. Posts 465 | Profile # |
I have a question about the search function. I've several times noticed that it isn't very "intelligent". I understand that it can't be exceptional, but just now I searched for "GSL August", and the top hit was "CoCa". I would definitely be willing to help connecting search-terms with pages if this is possible. I'm not at all good at programming and such, but if it's a simple way of doing this, please tell me how! 
The Liquipedia is awesome guys, keep the great work up! |
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| Iyerbeth England. September 04 2011 06:48. Posts 2210 | Profile Blog # |
Posting this in the correct thread this time...
Is there anywhere to find information about what everything means? The main reason I don't edit is because I'm worried about doing it wrong, but having spent the past few hours looking for things I can improve I keep running in to things I don't understand and a few things I've learn by just doing it wrong and trying again.
+ Show Spoiler [Some Specific Issues] +
- What are the (+number) things after recent contributions?
- What exactly defines a minor edit?
- What exactly is a stub? (I thought it was a page that needed more stuff, but the TeamLiquid.net page is a stub)
- What happens if I do something wrong?
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 ZodaSoda Australia. September 04 2011 11:53. Posts 609 | Profile Blog # |
On September 04 2011 06:48 Iyerbeth wrote:Posting this in the correct thread this time... Is there anywhere to find information about what everything means? The main reason I don't edit is because I'm worried about doing it wrong, but having spent the past few hours looking for things I can improve I keep running in to things I don't understand and a few things I've learn by just doing it wrong and trying again. + Show Spoiler [Some Specific Issues] +
- What are the (+number) things after recent contributions?
- What exactly defines a minor edit?
- What exactly is a stub? (I thought it was a page that needed more stuff, but the TeamLiquid.net page is a stub)
- What happens if I do something wrong?
- + and - are characters changed from the previous edit
- Minor edits should be Updated results, spelling errors etc.
- Stubs are what require more info, TeamLiquid.net is a stub because well its not sufficient to not be a stub yet.
- Don't be afraid of doing anything wrong, if its wrong it wont be reviewed, so doing something wrong can never really be harmful, and if you ever do anything your not suppose to, you'll be notified as to why on your talk page.
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 tofucake United States. September 04 2011 14:03. Posts 11467 | Profile Blog # |
If you do something wrong and the reviewer who sees your edit is feeling unlazy they will help you out. If you intentionally and repeatedly do something wrong (aka vandalism) I'll ban you.
No pressure! |
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| Iyerbeth England. September 04 2011 19:55. Posts 2210 | Profile Blog # |
| Alright cool, thank you both. I shall go back to seeing what I can edit/add/otherwise change! |
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| Navillus United States. September 05 2011 00:20. Posts 1120 | Profile # |
| The one thing I would like better on liquipedia is better and more updated build orders in the strategy section, and I would happily help out or do it myself but I'm not at the level where I can accurately give those things, which I imagine is the problem I'm sure there's a limited group of people who are at the level that they can give up-to-date and good build orders in their matchup and have the time to do that. |
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| tofucake United States. September 05 2011 02:53. Posts 11467 | Profile Blog # |
On August 10 2011 15:58 LoNeLyTrOoPeR wrote:
Can I be an editor please?
Sure! Just get started editing. |
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| tofucake United States. September 05 2011 02:54. Posts 11467 | Profile Blog # |
On September 05 2011 00:20 Navillus wrote:
The one thing I would like better on liquipedia is better and more updated build orders in the strategy section, and I would happily help out or do it myself but I'm not at the level where I can accurately give those things, which I imagine is the problem I'm sure there's a limited group of people who are at the level that they can give up-to-date and good build orders in their matchup and have the time to do that.
Just do what Day9 says a and shotgun replays. When you see builds used that look like the ones in LP, set them aside. After you've got a handful, go through them all and note what each one is, then compare those and voila, you have a build order. |
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| iMAniaC Norway. September 06 2011 16:27. Posts 463 | Profile # |
On September 04 2011 06:48 Iyerbeth wrote:
What exactly is a stub? (I thought it was a page that needed more stuff, but the TeamLiquid.net page is a stub)
Perhaps I should've done this a long time ago, but I added what I consider the page is lacking for it not be a stub on its Talk:TeamLiquid.net page. Feel free to take a look. As you can see, you were right all along; the TL.net page is indeed a page that needs more stuff
Personally, I add a stub template if I've made a page and I want others to finish it  (which, of course is just another way of saying "okay, I started the page, but it still needs more stuff"). If you take a look at my contributions you'll find almost only stubs. In a way, it's a really bad habit, never to polish a page properly, but on the other hand, the alternative would be me not creating the pages at all, or polishing one or two pages and then tire and quit Liquipedia entirely, which would be even worse. That's one of the reasons I love Liquipedia (and wikis in general), because it's designed so that anyone can contribute with what they feel like and I can spend my energy there without feeling an obligation to spend more energy than I have.
Besides, if there exists an anti-me, someone who likes to polish pages but never bothers to start one from scratch, then they can take a look at the list of stubs, perhaps find some of my unpolished pages and polish it. Then the two of us, together, will perhaps have made an awesome contribution that none of us would have made on their own |
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| Stijx United States. September 07 2011 11:11. Posts 786 | Profile Blog # |
| How does one become a "Trusted User" on Liquipedia? |
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| tofucake United States. September 07 2011 11:55. Posts 11467 | Profile Blog # |
On September 07 2011 11:11 Stijx wrote:
How does one become a "Trusted User" on Liquipedia?
Edit a whole lot and the system will promote you automatically. Alternately you can make awesome edits and get the attention of staff. |
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