MacroQuest Wiki:Community Portal

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We would love for you to help us work on the wiki! There is much you can help with, even if you don't know what you are doing. If you can copy and paste, you can help out.

Contents 1 Things To Do 2 Wiki Editing 3 Useful Tips 3.1 General Editing 3.2 MacroQuest2.com Specific

Things To Do

• Review sections marked for review

Pages Needing Review

• Categorize

Uncategorized Pages

• Fill in unavailable pages with stub pages

Unavailable Pages

• Mark empty or nearly-empty pages as stubs
  • Add {{Stub}} to the bottom of the page
  • Use {{Command-Stub}} for commands
  • Use {{DT-Stub}} for data types
  • Use {{Macro-Stub}} for macros
  • Use {{Plugin-Stub}} for plugins
  • Use {{TLO-Stub}} for Top-Level Objects

• Mark empty or nearly-empty sections with a request for more information
  • Add {{ExpandSect}} to the bottom of the section

• Add macros to the list of macros

Macros

• Add Custom UIs to the list of UIs

Custom UIs

• Add plugins to the list of plugins

Plugins

• Add information to sections needing more information

Articles to be expanded

• Add information to stub pages
  • Command Stubs
  • Data Type Stubs
  • Macro Stubs
  • Plugin Stubs
  • Top-Level Object Stubs

Wiki Editing

Wikimedia has the most thorough information related to wiki editing.

Read up on editing first, then proceed to other links at the bottom of the page to learn more about style, lists, tables, and other advanced editing subjects.

While this wiki allows for the use of HTML, there is also an entirely different syntax to learn so reading more is suggested before editing pages.

Useful Tips

General Editing

• Once you have made changes to a page, always click Show Preview first. This way you can see what your changes will look like before you make them and have an opportunity to correct any mistakes before making them.
• When creating a new page, look at similar pages first. As the wiki has grown, certain page types have developed a format and it is best to use that as a basis for your new page.
• Be sure to categorize your page, either in an existing category or by creating a new one if none are relevant.

MacroQuest2.com Specific

• When adding a page relating to a macro, snippet or plugin, always link to the forum post where you found it.
• Avoid copying and pasting entire source code into the wiki page for several reasons.
  • Most obvious, by linking the forum post you won't have to update the wiki page every time the source changes.
  • Less obvious is that wiki formatting makes code alignment, line wrapping, and other tasks difficult or impossible.
  • This is not to say do not use code for example purposes, as that is welcomed. Use sound judgment.
• The wiki is designed to be a repository of information about MQ2, macros, snippets, and plugins.