Func_Msgboard: Quake Documentation Project

Posted by SleepwalkR on 2013/03/17 15:55:36

Quaketree brought up the idea that the community needs to rescue / dig out the information from this forum and other sources and store it in one accessible place.

Others chimed in and most agree that this place should be a wiki. Spirit has suggested Quaddicted, and I personally agree that it's the right place for such a project, but the Wiki over there seems to be limited. Others (Willem, me) have also volunteered to set up such a Wiki.

Let's discuss this idea further in this thread. I think it would be a fantastic thing to have a community Wiki for Quake level design.

UPDATE: there is now a URL: http://quakewiki.org/

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I Like The New Logo!

#44 posted by SleepwalkR on 2013/03/22 00:31:43

#45 posted by starbuck on 2013/03/22 01:05:41

oh my word Ricky, does it honestly look like a nice semantic theme that's going to react well to responsive layouts? I mean they've used bloody tables for positioning. Tables! Feel free to inject the media query CSS using dev tools or whatever, if it works well I will eat a whole suitcase full of shorts.

Unless you're aware of a modern standards compliant theme that runs on that wiki software? That'd be awesome. Otherwise though, maybe there's a dedicated mobile theme out there? We could set up a m.quakewiki.org subdomain and do a browser check...

Maybe We Should Write Some Articles First

#46 posted by SleepwalkR on 2013/03/22 06:57:21

Also how many people are going to seriously read this in their mobile phones?

#47 posted by metlslime on 2013/03/22 07:42:12

added URL to the the thread text.

#48 posted by Spirit on 2013/03/22 07:51:47

oh god, Ricky is right about the maximum width!

I could not care less about mobile version, opera mobile makes reading normal versions of websites fun. if someone writes it though, sure thing.

don't waste your time writing content, wait until the import has happened to see what is there.

Spirit

#49 posted by starbuck on 2013/03/22 11:31:11

You get my email dude?

#50 posted by Spirit on 2013/03/22 11:41:12

yes but I am not a dog!!

(out of town right now, will do it in about 7 hours)

Woof

#51 posted by starbuck on 2013/03/22 12:04:49

cool beans, no rush.

Thanks To LordHavoc

#52 posted by Spirit on 2013/03/23 00:42:01

I successfully imported a database dump of the quakery.quakedev.com/qwiki wiki locally now. More later.

#53 posted by matfac on 2013/03/23 04:19:38

Great!

Looking forward for updates!

Oh, and hi, my name's matfac!

@ Starbuck

#54 posted by quaketree on 2013/03/23 05:50:56

I like the new colors and backgrounds however the "More" menu is unreadable right now.

Some Text Is Too Small On Firefox / Mac

#55 posted by SleepwalkR on 2013/03/23 08:13:51

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7009168/quakewiki_firefox_mac.jpeg

It looks fine on Safari:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7009168/quakewiki_safari_mac.jpeg

Also, what font is that in the Safari screenshot?

Hmm

#56 posted by oh, that person on 2013/03/23 09:25:14

Seems like the font isn't Futura after all.

Maybe

#57 posted by SleepwalkR on 2013/03/23 09:40:05

The font is not available on Macs. I would like to urge you guys to not use a special font for Quakewiki. Please use something that everyone is used to such as

Helvetica, Arial, DejaVu sans, sans-serif

Spirit suggested these for TrenchBroom's site, and it works quite well on all operating systems.

Hold Off On The Feedback Until It's Somewhere Near Done Please

#58 posted by starbuck on 2013/03/23 12:05:45

I'm having to develop the theme on the live site, this is obviously a work in progress. There's a rats nest of existing CSS rules, and it's neither complete nor cross-browser tested so you're only wasting your time.

Alright

#59 posted by SleepwalkR on 2013/03/23 13:34:55

Wasn't aware of that, apologies.

#60 posted by Spirit on 2013/03/23 19:24:53

sexy looks are gone for now as I am working on the import

Looking Good, Another Saturday Night Wasted

#61 posted by Spirit on 2013/03/23 23:37:31

Alright, if you want to help:

Play around on http://quakewiki.org/ and test the functionality.

Do not do any constructive work since I will reimport from scratch!

Test things, edit, register, visit random pages. try features.

If you had an account at quakery.quakedev.com/qwiki it should work. Go to http://quakewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Preferences&success=1#mw-prefsection-rendering after logging in and choose the Monaco theme.

See http://quakewiki.org/ for a list of bugs and errors and please add ones you find there.

#62 posted by quaketree on 2013/03/24 03:50:41

Ok. I played around with it (and made the bug report page so people can edit it and add their reports easily). It seems to work ok but I was fooling around with my own page (QuakeTree) and can't figure out how to imbed an image. I'm a complete noob when it comes to Wiki editing so perhaps a link somewhere that is just a tad dumbed down on proper formatting for things like that might be helpful when you get it fully functional.

Sigh

#63 posted by quaketree on 2013/03/24 03:56:39

imbed, embed, ombed, ambed, umbed... what's a vowel between friends right? That's what I get for trusting spell check.

What Is The Wiki For Exactly?

#64 posted by than on 2013/03/24 05:56:14

Is the plan just to write as much information about modding and mapping for Quake as possible, or are we going to add information about the monsters, levels etc. in the original game, document important mods, maps, collect interviews etc?

Btw, it's not super important, but if you are creating a new account and press tab to switch between the password and retype password boxes, the cursor goes somewhere completely unexpected (in Chrome at least). This also affects the login page, where tab from the password box takes you to the search box instead of the remember me checkbox.

#65 posted by necros on 2013/03/24 06:28:08

i'm not sure if i'm missing something, but the font is tiny, like 6 or 7 pixels high.

#66 posted by necros on 2013/03/24 06:29:40

Firefox 19

#67 posted by Spirit on 2013/03/24 08:09:46

quaketree: yeah, I think the help link is broken.

than: everything!

necros: absolutely right!

#68 posted by Text_Fish on 2013/03/24 09:29:20

Yay Everything!

I can't wait till it's ready to be written on.

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