Difference between revisions of "PCGamingWiki:News/Table"
From PCGamingWiki, the wiki about fixing PC games
m (updated the Sinking City row) |
(Shortened The Sinking City note for better grammar. I don't think we need to specify the length) |
||
Line 80: | Line 80: | ||
}} | }} | ||
{{News/row | {{News/row | ||
− | |Title=[[The Sinking City]] becomes available on [[Store:Steam|Steam]] | + | |Title=[[The Sinking City]] briefly becomes available on [[Store:Steam|Steam]]. |
|Date=January 5, 2021 | |Date=January 5, 2021 | ||
|Link1=https://steamcommunity.com/app/1151760/discussions/0/2992045729277926992/ | |Link1=https://steamcommunity.com/app/1151760/discussions/0/2992045729277926992/ |
Revision as of 10:56, 9 January 2021
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 only Moderators and Editors 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.