Anonymous edits have been disabled on the wiki. If you want to contribute please login or create an account.

Difference between revisions of "PCGamingWiki:News"

From PCGamingWiki, the wiki about fixing PC games
m (grammar)
(6 intermediate revisions by 3 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
<noinclude>This project page is for the maintenance of a News section on PCGamingWiki.
+
<noinclude>{{Projectbox|content=This project page is for the maintenance of a News section on PCGamingWiki.
  
Related pages and templates:
+
'''Aims'''
* [[PCGamingWiki:News/Table]] for population of the rows.
+
* Market people to view articles that will receive high interest based on recent news.
* {{T|News/row}} - for populating the main data table [[PCGamingWiki:News/Table]].
+
* Highlight platform changes on articles which will require substantial changes/attention.
* {{T|News/displayonly}} - only used for cargo queries so as to not duplicate table rows.<noinclude>
+
* Encourage community participation in current events.
 +
* Make it easier for Andytizer (or anyone else) to create News articles quickly.
  
 +
'''Inclusion criteria'''
 +
* Any games with high wishlist/player counts/press coverage/notability/surprise announcement/releases.
 +
* Major platform changes e.g. GOG/Steam/Origin/Microsoft Store.
 +
* Major DRM changes e.g. removal of Denuvo or becoming DRM-free.
 +
* Major patches or content changes.
 +
* Notable sales.
 +
* Don't cover new releases, those are covered in [[PCGamingWiki:Assignments]].
 +
 +
'''Title'''
 +
* Brief and concise and ideally a single sentence with period at the end.
 +
* Internally link where possible in order to encourage users to click through to an article.
 +
* Explain why the change might be considered interesting to the reader/PCGamingWiki visitor.
 +
* Add additional information that can't be summarised in the title can be placed in  the Notes field.
 +
* This is currently set to an abbr tag which mouse users can use to hover. Mobile solution needs to be developed.
 +
 +
'''Instructions'''
 +
* [[PCGamingWiki:News/Table]] - this is the area where the data is kept.
 +
* New rows are added newest at the top.
 +
* Currently Moderators and Editors only have permission to edit this page.
 +
* When the Table is edited, it also needs to be purged for the data to refresh in the queries.
 +
 +
'''Syntax'''
 +
<pre>
 +
{{News/row
 +
|Title=
 +
|Date=
 +
|Link1=
 +
|Link2=
 +
|Link3=
 +
|Notes=
 +
|Community=
 +
|Pin=false
 +
}}
 +
</pre>
 +
 +
* <code>Title</code> - concise title.
 +
* <code>Date</code> - Month dd format.
 +
* <code>Link1</code> - URL only.
 +
* <code>Link2</code> - URL only.
 +
* <code>Link3</code> - URL only.
 +
* <code>Notes</code> - any additional information, ideally a single sentence, no formatting/links.
 +
* <code>Community</code> - URL to community site only.
 +
* <code>Pin</code> - true/false - this will pin to the top in certain queries. Ideally only 2 or 3 pinned at any one time.
 +
 +
'''Main contacts'''
 +
* [[User:Andytizer|Andytizer]]
 +
* Discussion should be in the #News channel on [[PCGamingWiki:Discord|Discord]].
 +
 +
'''Related pages and templates'''
 +
* {{T|News/row}} - each data row is used in [[PCGamingWiki:News/Table]].
 +
* {{T|News/displayonly}} - only used for cargo queries so as to not duplicate table rows.}}</noinclude>
 +
 +
==Latest 20 News rows==
 +
* See the [[PCGamingWiki:News/Table]] for the full data.
 
<onlyinclude>{{#cargo_query:
 
<onlyinclude>{{#cargo_query:
 
tables=News
 
tables=News
Line 16: Line 71:
 
|limit=20
 
|limit=20
 
|more results text=
 
|more results text=
}}</onlyinclude>
+
}}</li></onlyinclude>

Revision as of 12:46, 30 June 2020

This project page is for the maintenance of a News section on PCGamingWiki.

Aims

  • Market people to view articles that will receive high interest based on recent news.
  • Highlight platform changes on articles which will require substantial changes/attention.
  • Encourage community participation in current events.
  • Make it easier for Andytizer (or anyone else) to create News articles quickly.

Inclusion criteria

  • Any games with high wishlist/player counts/press coverage/notability/surprise announcement/releases.
  • Major platform changes e.g. GOG/Steam/Origin/Microsoft Store.
  • Major DRM changes e.g. removal of Denuvo or becoming DRM-free.
  • Major patches or content changes.
  • Notable sales.
  • Don't cover new releases, those are covered in PCGamingWiki:Assignments.

Title

  • Brief and concise and ideally a single sentence with period at the end.
  • Internally link where possible in order to encourage users to click through to an article.
  • Explain why the change might be considered interesting to the reader/PCGamingWiki visitor.
  • Add additional information that can't be summarised in the title can be placed in the Notes field.
  • This is currently set to an abbr tag which mouse users can use to hover. Mobile solution needs to be developed.

Instructions

  • PCGamingWiki:News/Table - this is the area where the data is kept.
  • New rows are added newest at the top.
  • Currently Moderators and Editors only have permission to edit this page.
  • When the Table is edited, it also needs to be purged for the data to refresh in the queries.

Syntax

{{News/row
|Title=
|Date=
|Link1=
|Link2=
|Link3=
|Notes=
|Community=
|Pin=false
}}
  • Title - concise title.
  • Date - Month dd format.
  • Link1 - URL only.
  • Link2 - URL only.
  • Link3 - URL only.
  • Notes - any additional information, ideally a single sentence, no formatting/links.
  • Community - URL to community site only.
  • Pin - true/false - this will pin to the top in certain queries. Ideally only 2 or 3 pinned at any one time.

Main contacts

Related pages and templates


Latest 20 News rows