PCGamingWiki:News
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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 eg removal of Denuvo or becoming DRM-free.
- Major patches or content changes.
- Notable sales.
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
- {{News/row}} - each data row is used in PCGamingWiki:News/Table.
- {{News/displayonly}} - only used for cargo queries so as to not duplicate table rows.
Latest 20 News rows
- See the PCGamingWiki:News/Table for the full data.
January 1 · UEVR mod by Praydog has entered public beta, adding virtual reality support to thousands of Unreal Engine 4 games.[1]
December 13 · Epic Games Store Winter Sale is live until January 10, 2024.[1]