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Nexus wiki
The Nexus Wiki is a simple Wiki set up to replace the article database on the sites and provide a more central area for helpful articles and tutorials to do with the Nexus sites, the games and modding in general. The mission statement is in no way to attempt to replace any popular community wiki's (such as the UESP or the official SDK wiki's for the various games). It's designed to share information on making modding easier and provide tutorials and help for people struggling to install modifications or use the sites. MediaWiki as a platform is far more versatile than the article database ever would have been so it makes sense to do this switch.
The Wiki login system uses your Nexus username and password so you won't need to sign up again. Once logged in you can create new pages and edit current ones as you would any other wiki. Normal wiki etiquette applies and remember; everything is logged and vandalism will be handled and moderated as it would on any other section of the site (with a swift strike of the ban hammer).
The articles and tutorials in the Wiki are sparse right now and each article and tutorial of worth needs to be manually added to the Wiki from the old article database and rearranged to fit the Wiki template. It's a time consuming process that I've been working on when I can but I could definitely use some help.
As an added incentive for any budding wiki users I will be running a lottery on the Wiki from now until the end of the (soon to be announced) 2.5 millionth member competition. For every new helpful article or tutorial added to the Wiki your account will be entered in to a lottery draw to win a $100 Amazon gift voucher (or an amount of same worth in your own currency). If you write 10 helpful articles or tutorials you get 10 tickets. The draw will take place once the 2.5 million member mark is reached, so hop to it!
I will keep the article database on the sites in their current location (e.g. http://www.tesnexus.com/articles/ for the TESNexus article database) until I am satisfied all the articles currently in the database have been transferred over to the new Wiki.
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A moderator has closed this comment topic for the time beingI found the link to the MediaWiki Help:Formatting within the 'How to post a new wiki page' article. (I would have linked to the Help:Contents page, so any Help topic could be located, but that is just a matter of preference.) However, it seems some of the MediaWiki format codes are not implemented or at least not correctly in the Nexus Wiki. I have not been successful in finding any other equivalent guide listing any specific to Nexus. Any pointers to such a page would be appreciated.
In particular, the 'code' tag (on the Wiki) is not working correctly. The text within the tag block displays below the tag display box, with loss of original formatting. There have been a couple of other codes I had problems with, but since the XCOM space articles are mostly about modding the game executable directly, having a functional code tag is important.
Example of 'code' tag bug:
<code>
This long sentence is used to demonstrate text wrapping. This additional sentence makes the text even longer.
This second line should not concatenate with the first line.
</code><br>
Instead, the text is erroneously concatenated and appears below the box it is supposed to be displayed within.
<br>
Also: Would it be possible to have the page creation submission process for a page that doesn't already exist automatically add the page to a 'Pages' or '<namespace> Pages' navigation menu item, similar to how the 'Recent Changes' navigation link works now? That way we don't have to worry that a page becomes orphaned simply because the author or an editor forgot to add a category tag initially. I would think that would be helpful on any namespace. If there already exists a method to find a page not in any category, I could use a pointer.
-Dubious-
Agreed it will make it a bit easier to get to the wiki.
Can we get a link to the Wiki put on the Forum pages? Currently, it's actually kind of hard to find from within the Nexus site iteself when you go looking!
Thanks for the quick reply.
The wiki is more about how to use Nexus, how to make/install mods and utilities. Not so much about how to play specific mods/quests. That is better left to the mods discussion page or UESP, etc.
(Fixed that for ya')
See post #56, above, (or LHammonds' more complete instructions at #53 before that). Then notice that when you try to save any work in the wiki it refreshes the screen (keeping your work) but adding a small math problem above the editing panel. You have to solve the problem and hit Save again. (Prevents automated changes/defacements of the pages.)
Thx, that looks great now. And I see that there's already another article in the category, so we're on a roll!
Lon; So, I messed up again.
Please DELETE these two:
a) Using DA mods
b) Using DA Mods for Dummies
I finally got it on my third try.
The RIGHT title is: Using Dragon Age Mods for Dummies.
EDIT by LHammonds: Done