How to contribute

What to contribute?

We encourage every kind of contribution. Here are a few examples what you could do:

You can always fix problems, correct grammar, make sure wording is accurate, etc. (See Editing Pages)
Expand an article by covering another topic
Create videos for articles (How to create videos)
Write a new article. A variety of topics are yet to be covered
Here you can find articles that need content: Category:Needs Content

Changes made to the wiki go to a moderation queue, where moderators will check if the change you made is vandalism.

Here are our practices we follow when moderating content, which the extension itself recommends:

The following good-practices are advised:

Only vandalism should be Rejected. Not-so-good edits with good intentions (e.g. adding excessive plot details into the Wikipedia article about film) are better made Approved and then reverted as usual. This way the author is not offended and the text is saved in page history, viewable by anyone.
Any user that is deemed legitimate (does N good edits) should be added into automoderated group.
Adding users to automoderated group via $wgAutopromote is NOT recommended, as it motivates the vandals to do many very-minor edits (e.g. adding interwiki). Better promote them to automoderated manually for one good edit and not promote for 30 useless-edits-made-for-count.
Abstain from using blocks. Don't protect pages "just in case", except maybe for important templates.
Allow the full rehabilitation of users with a bad history of editing. Their useful edits to the articles should be allowed, no matter how many times they were blocked. At the same time, trolling on talk pages should be rejected, so are the purposely-low-quality edits.

(TODO: Update this section to be usable on the new wiki)

To use maps from videos in the wiki:

Right-click the video and click ‘View Video’, now you can find the name of the video in the URL
Go here and download the correct demo
Open the demo in your client (you need to move the demo into your data/maps folder)
While you have the demo open, go into the editor, click File, and select Load Current Map

Now you can edit and use the map for the demo.

Create a new map in the editor
Set the background color to #5E84AE
1. Click on the quads layer
2. Right-click the corners of the rectangle
3. Insert the color value #5E84AE into the third to last field each each
The main focus should be that it is comprehensible
Keep the style simple and similar to the other videos
- Use simple textures (preferably grass_main, combined with generic_unhookable and font_teeworlds)
- Make it loopable, you can get creative with that :)
- Insert a scale if suited

Turn demo recording on
- I suggest Settings -> General -> Automatically record demos
Load the map on a server
- Start your own DDNet server or use the Trashmap hosting service
Join it with your client, try the trick until you are satisfied with the result and keep loopability in mind

Set consistent skin:

In your client, go to Demos -> auto/
Open the demo you recorded
- Tip: Click on Date to sort by date
Press Escape for demo functions
Use the 2 buttons on the left of the camera icons to select a starting and end point
Use the camera icon to save the shortened demo

Tip: you can repeat these steps multiple times to be able to cut the demo more precisely

Once you have the client, converting a demo is as simple as:

If you identify a common occurrence, such as weapon info boxes, you can automate it creating templates, more info here.

List of created templates: