The EN How2 is the page of how to do something in the Ryzom Forge Wiki.
If you're not familiar with wikis and, more specifically with Mediawiki, editing and creating pages may seem complex. Good news: we use a wiki engine that is well documented in every language.
As a user, the most useful information is available here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_hub and more precisely here: Mediawiki FAQ.
MediaWiki is used by Wikipedia, which has lots of very good tutorials. Getting the Wikipedia introduction page is a great way to understand what a wiki is and how to begin.
To write the Wiki markup is very complete, and the Cheat Sheet help you to quickly find the most rules used.
Finally, you may also read the "Introduction to the Ryzom Forge Wiki" which is a summary adapted to our Ryzom wiki. In addition, there are several "Templates" to initialize pages, especially including multilingual mode, as you can see in the next paragraphs.
All features available on MediaWiki / Wikipedia is not available on this wiki: some need to be added by an administrator. If you are missing something, contact one and ask him nicely. You can also use the page "Wiki_on_Work" (reaction time variable depending on the time). Be free to write in it in your language: it is easier for us to have only one page.
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When a category appears in red in the bottom of a page, you can document that category explaining what is in it and with what associated rules if necessary. Remember that the text of the Category is not a documentation page itself.
There are two kinds of documentation of categories, and so two kinds of treatment:
{{subst:CategoryShortDesc}}
{{CategoryTab}}
The description of template is usually longer and more complex than a category .
<noinclude>{{{{FULLPAGENAME}}/Documentation}} [[Category:foo]]</noinclude>
{{subst:Template Documentation}}
{{subst:Template FR Documentation}}
When a document page already exists always in at least one of the 5 languages of Ryzom, it remains to translate it into the others.
The document pages have on the top 5 language tabs created by the {{TabLang}} .
By default, until the page has not been translated, there is at the top of the original page something like:
The indications " ... | DE | EN | ES | ... | RU " show the missing translations, and clicking on the language tab, we are led to a page like FR . Follow the instructions on this page to create a new translation.
When all the pages are translated should find something like:
The only rule to choose a documentation page title is not to take unfortunately the same name as another page in any language. This rule is less flexible for the categories and templates because of the associated automations. (See: 'WikiRF')
This part is old, and would need to be rewrite (before wikis merge ?)
The categories are unique: they gather all the documents in all languages except for categories of languages themselves: "category: DE", "category: EN", "category: ES", "category: FR" and "category: RU".
Their name should be as neutral as possible, that is to say often basic English.
The documents of the categories are always formated in the same manner to ensure the operation of bots: XX_YYY, where XX is the two-letter language and YYY the exact name of the category.
More than for the categories, the best and wiser is to no create templates in different languages. Only documentation should be translated. On the other hand, documentation template is often embedded in the template itself, and especially this documentation should not change the behavior of the template. It goes without saying that inside the templates common to the 5 language, it is written as "neutral" as possible.
Open the document page of the template:
Put at the top of the page the banner template WIP
{{WIP}}
Now we use 2 templates: Template:Trad end Template:TIP
Old informations:
Put on the top banner template:toTrad.
{{toTrad| A precise language: DE, EN, ES... | Leave a comment if necessary }}
By default {{toTrad}} indicates that the article is to be translated and is added to the category ToTrad:
It may be useful for Ryzom wiki contributors to know what are your language, technical skills ... You can use for this two infobox:
You can use a special box to alert: Template: Banner