NWAC wiki

[General Baker]

Well, it's not much right now, but I can imagine it becoming quite informative in the long-term...

I have a webserver/domain for a few different projects, and with some geeky excitement (and a measure of boredom) a while ago, I quickly set up a mediawiki site in a subdomain (http://nwac.ecitizentools.com/). It was basically to hold some XML schema data (which I suspect is a tad borked), but I think it'd be cool to put other things there.

I might get a proper domain name for it eventually, unless the devs make an official one or someone else gets there first. But hey, just an idea

Feel free to register, make pages, contribute etc!


P.S. ignore the ugliness of the site, I'll refine it at some point

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To the devs: hope you don't mind me using the cover art/forum badge graphics!

 

[Gorduz]

Nice Ill start adding stuff this evening!

 

[unmerged(255172)]

Awesome. We are very unlikely to make an official wiki. If you guys want to build and maintain such a resource that is great, and we'll help where we can.

 

[unmerged(398368)]

Great stuff! - dont forget to add a tactics page!

 

[General Baker]

I guess we need to add all sorts of stuff really. It'd be cool to document the interface, campaign (maybe mission walkthroughs?), maybe host a 'new player tutorial' etc.

We just need editors

 

[Stealth17]

Nice! I'd like to help General Baker. How can I contribute?

 

[General Baker]

Top-right of the screen, there's a 'create account' link. Go through all that (doesn't take long at all) and for now, just add what you want/can.

I guess if we get a priority list charted soon, we could introduce some kind of organised editing

 

[nimitz98]

Naval War:Actic Circle? LOL.

 

[General Baker]

Good spot, fixed

 

[Sn3ipen]

This is good. Registered and will see if I get the time to make some contributions.

 

[General Baker]

Awesome. I've made a brief (provisional) set of new article guidelines for those who want to crack on with content. Will be doing some templates that units/weapons/etc can use to display standard information, much like the infoboxes on Wikipedia - probably tonight/tomorrow.

 

[General Baker]

Well, I just did something awesome

http://nwac.ecitizentools.com/Template:FixedwingAircraft

The template automagically grabs the data it needs from the game XML files, and nicely formats it. So you can stick that template atop any aircraft page, input the three values, and get a full page of data to start off the article! Good for when the db updates.

I'll do the same for the other unit types/weapons etc tomorrow Then I'll focus on making the thing look pretty

 

[Sn3ipen]

Thats really nice.Will make it allot easier to add info about all units in the game. All we have to is write something meaningful about each unit. But not tonight. Have to go to bed now.

 

[General Baker]

Shameless bump?

I want to highlight that people are free to make articles and edit the wiki as they please. Alot of people have signed up, but we need content added for it to be useful

Myself, I'll be too busy these next few months to do anything productive on there, so it's on you chaps to make use of it

 

[unmerged(478870)]

Well, I just did something awesome

http://nwac.ecitizentools.com/Template:FixedwingAircraft

The template automagically grabs the data it needs from the game XML files, and nicely formats it. So you can stick that template atop any aircraft page, input the three values, and get a full page of data to start off the article! Good for when the db updates.

I'll do the same for the other unit types/weapons etc tomorrow Then I'll focus on making the thing look pretty

Oh thats nice! The lack of such a database made me do the Data_Reader =D

But be carefull with looking up the data with the short name only.
For example, there are 7 missiles called "Tomahawk" by short name.
Only the full name or the <id> tag show the difference.

 

[General Baker]

Indeed, hence I made sure to use the longname

 

[unmerged(478870)]

Indeed, hence I made sure to use the longname

Then all is good =)

The example template made it look like the short name is used as key:

|shortname=JAS 39 Gripen <!-- short name, very important for loading the data. Find it in the XML database -->

 

[General Baker]

Hmm, strange that. I was fairly sure I used the long name... an easy fix anyway, will do tonight Thanks for the heads up hehe!

 

[unmerged(255172)]

Loading and finding is all about the Id. If not unique, strange things may happen.