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− | <noinclude>{{Projectbox|content=This project page is for the maintenance of a News section on PCGamingWiki.
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− | '''Aims'''
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− | * Market people to view articles that will receive high interest based on recent news.
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− | * Highlight platform changes on articles which will require substantial changes/attention.
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− | * Encourage community participation in current events.
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− | * Make it easier for Andytizer (or anyone else) to create News articles quickly.
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− | '''Inclusion criteria'''
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− | * Any games with high wishlist/player counts/press coverage/notability/surprise announcement/releases.
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− | * Major platform changes e.g. GOG/Steam/Origin/Microsoft Store.
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− | * Major DRM changes e.g. removal of Denuvo or becoming DRM-free.
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− | * Major patches or content changes.
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− | * Notable sales.
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− | * Don't cover new releases, those are covered in [[PCGamingWiki:Assignments]].
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− | '''Title'''
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− | * Brief and concise and ideally a single sentence with period at the end.
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− | * Internally link where possible in order to encourage users to click through to an article.
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− | * Explain why the change might be considered interesting to the reader/PCGamingWiki visitor.
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− | * Add additional information that can't be summarised in the title can be placed in the Notes field.
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− | * This is currently set to an abbr tag which mouse users can use to hover. Mobile solution needs to be developed.
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− | '''Instructions'''
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− | * [[PCGamingWiki:News/Table]] - this is the area where the data is kept.
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− | * New rows are added newest at the top.
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− | * Currently Moderators and Editors only have permission to edit this page.
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− | * When the Table is edited, it also needs to be purged for the data to refresh in the queries.
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− | '''Syntax'''
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− | <pre>
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− | {{News/row
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− | |Title=
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− | |Date=
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− | |Link1=
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− | |Link2=
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− | |Link3=
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− | |Notes=
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− | |Community=
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− | |Pin=false
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− | }}
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− | </pre>
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− | * <code>Title</code> - concise title.
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− | * <code>Date</code> - Month dd format.
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− | * <code>Link1</code> - URL only.
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− | * <code>Link2</code> - URL only.
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− | * <code>Link3</code> - URL only.
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− | * <code>Notes</code> - any additional information, ideally a single sentence, no formatting/links.
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− | * <code>Community</code> - URL to community site only.
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− | * <code>Pin</code> - true/false - this will pin to the top in certain queries. Ideally only 2 or 3 pinned at any one time.
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− | '''Main contacts'''
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− | * [[User:Andytizer|Andytizer]]
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− | * Discussion should be in the #News channel on [[PCGamingWiki:Discord|Discord]].
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− | '''Related pages and templates'''
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− | * {{T|News/row}} - each data row is used in [[PCGamingWiki:News/Table]].
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− | * {{T|News/displayonly}} - only used for cargo queries so as to not duplicate table rows.}}</noinclude>
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| ==Latest 20 News rows== | | ==Latest 20 News rows== |
| * See the [[PCGamingWiki:News/Table]] for the full data. | | * See the [[PCGamingWiki:News/Table]] for the full data. |