That's as easy as it can be, and Spirit has showed the path to several times on Quaddicted's forums. I myself have contributed adding some things there.

It isn't hard to find either how to do it. The matter is that almost no one has put the effort to do so, like negke have said.

Mind sharing this path one more time instead of just saying it is easy to find. I'd like to contribute if I can. 

As easy (or complicated) as most Wiki systems. Sign in on the forum page; then there aew "edit this page" links on each wiki page. You can create new pages from scratch by entering the corresponding url, e.g. quaddicted.com/tutorials_4_cats_etc. Images can be uploaded through the Media Manager at the bottom - awkward, but it works. Be sure to select the correct folder.

You can familiarize yourself with how things work by using the <a href=https://www.quaddicted.com/playground/playground">playground page</a> for testing and experimenting. 

Thanks negke, but I do not see "edit this page" links anywhere. Let's say in the links section I wanted to add another tutorial link for example.

As for the Media Manager, I just clicked on upload just to see what would be displayed and I get "You do not have the rights. This happens even in the playground section. Sorry I may just be confused here.

In the playground I see: "If permissions allow, you may create it by clicking on "Create this page". I do not see "Edit this page" or "Create this page" anywhere.

Is there a help page somewhere on quaddicted that explains this process? 

You need to be logged it, cookies and all. No special permissions required.

The only help page I know of is the Formatting Syntax. 

I am logged in and do not see "edit this page" on playground page either.

http://imgur.com/WYi2sbk

http://imgur.com/0IBAFWn

Where would we enter the page name (url) for a new article if we got this working? 

Will ask Spirit. 

 

it has several edit buttons of two kinds

https://www.quaddicted.com/links

In the playground I see: "If permissions allow, you may create it by clicking on "Create this page". I do not see "Edit this page" or "Create this page" anywhere.

Strange, it works for me too. Try adding /xxx to the url of any page in the wiki and see if the create this page button appears in that new one 

http://imgur.com/0IBAFWn

There should be in that screenshot a third line below ''Sitemap Recent changes'' that says ''Logged in as: '' so maybe it didn't log you in. I remember that happening to me time ago, so better try to check in several places and refresh the pages to be more sure that you are really logged in. 

Fucking built it and they will come. 

Stupid web monitor service sent me to an older post. I guess I should read above. Sec... 

dumptruck: It should mention your username at the bottom of wikipages. I am looking into it. Must have been broken for ages, ain't that telling that you are the first to notice.

So.

Outside a very tiny group of deligent, awesome contributors people never gave a fuck about being able to contribute. The Quake community does not work like that. It is driven by few people who like doing their niche well.

If you want a file added, just mail me the url of the upload at Quaketastic and it should be there hours to days later. Not some shit host, not some "oh this is a special version but using the same filename because I fixed a pixel that was off in the back corner of the map". I tend to ignore mails like that. Or those that are just help vampires.

If you are not a newcomer, you might remember Quaddicted being fully powered by a wiki. Low interest by others. There was also community driven news. Same there.

Not too long ago I ported Quaddicted to Wordpress, having a better community in mind, but realised that people are assholes and gave up the idea. There are plans for rebuilding the whole map system, including a proper metadata format that would make the Quake Injector (or a successor rather) much more powerful. But considering that people are still releasing utter SHIT in terms of packaging I have little motivation.

Oh and open-sourcing the map system? One (great) contribution three years ago. Woohoo. Yes, it is *shit* code, I wrote it many years ago but so what. If you want changes, PRs are welcome. Hell, even well planned feature requests might spur motivation. https://github.com/SpiritQuaddicted/Quaddicted-reviews

however, despite his sometimes seemingly excentric ways on handling the files
Fuck off. >:) I handle a file as it is, a file. Not my fault if people are anal perfectionists who cry if their urge to replace files does not work in an ARCHIVE.

And yes, it's pointless to discuss things regarding me here. There are some sociopaths here that just spread shit and negativity so I only notice things when pointed to.

Much love to negke and the other people who did and do tremendous work on and around the site over all those years. You are awesome and should feel good!

I tried so many times to get the community organised. Projects were burned so many times by people's burst modes (including mine).

Oh, do you guys know Quakewiki.org btw? 

Not my fault if people are anal perfectionists

Outside a very tiny group of deligent, awesome contributors people never gave a fuck about being able to contribute. The Quake community does not work like that.

help vampires.

having a better community in mind, but realised that people are assholes

You seem like such a lovely person, I wonder why so few people wanted to contribute to your website??? 

There are plans for rebuilding the whole map system
When you'll move from plans to action, there's one thing I wish Quaddicted would do:
Currently, when you're on the page of a multiple-authors release, you can only click ALL the authors' names at once. It would be nice to be able to click each name individually. 

Not possible because there is just one dumb string in the "author" field. 

Thanks anyway. 

I once had this idea to replace quake injector with a small app that is registered as a URL handler. Quaddicted would have a "play now" button which when clicked, launches a special URL, e.g. "quake://quaddicted.com/this_map". The URL would launch the app, which then would download the necessary metadata, download the map (and required mods, if possible), and launch a pre-configured quake engine with the required command line.

That would be great because the injector app could now skip the UI and handle only the downloading / launching part. Which is complicated enough already I imagine. 

https://github.com/hrehfeld/python-gpm is a python cmdline installer. Esp. https://github.com/hrehfeld/python-gpm/blob/master/gpm/quakebsp.py should be useful. 

Sleepy: Yeah! I think that was even part of my original design docs but memory might be off.

Maybe we should have a Great German Gettogether some day.

Anyways, back to life without func, it is a happier place. Take care. 

"And yes, it's pointless to discuss things regarding me here. There are some sociopaths here that just spread shit and negativity"

And yet, somehow, this is another fantastic year for Quake mapping across the board, old and new, modded and vanilla, simple and spectacular, individual and community (including this forum) driven.......... 

was a great author but a shitty human being. These traits aren't mutually exclusive.

You can't deny there sometimes is some toxicity around here. 

I know some other posts were a bit more personal but I wanted to re-iterate that Quaddicted is a tremendous resource AS IS. So warts and all you have a lot to be proud of and at least some of us do appreciate all the work that went and goes into the site. I would like to contribute and I appreciate you looking into the error that Bloughsburgh and I encountered. We'll keep our eyes peeled I am sure. 

 

Even if Quaddicted just sat there and was rarely updated, the contribution to the community over the years is just without parallel. The value of a stable, complete-as-possible archive of maps with screenshots and the ability to comment is also I think responsible to bringing new people into both playing and mapping to a greater extent than we usually recognize.

This is on total contrast to how Google, say, is currently eviscerating Youtube. 

Anytime! I think writing the app would be easy if the server has a simple interface for the app to use.