New Q3Wiki available!

Post by **Foo** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 10:08 pm

The Quake 3 Wiki <-Click Me!

A Wiki is a website which can be edited by anyone. The Q3 Wiki has been set up as a place for people to post any information they have about Q3. The game, troubleshooting information, level editing tutorials, even information about their homemade levels.

The Quake 3 Wiki is open for anyone to add to and edit. It is hoped that with the collective knowledge of the Q3 Community, the Wiki will grow into the definitive information source for Quake 3.

Currently, the Q3 Wiki is under heavy initial development. There is a lot of content which could still be added, or is incomplete. Please feel free to add and expand articles wherever you can, this Wiki needs your knowledge!

Getting Involved
To get started with Wiki editing, you may find the following links useful:
*The Meta Wiki - The Wiki about Wikis
**Editing Editing Guide - Lots of help on adding to and editing the Wiki. All of this applies here too!
*The Wikipedia Quake 3 Entry - A good example page from Wikipedia (The Encyclopedia Wiki)
*Unreal Wiki - Another good example, the Unreal Engine Wiki

Discussion and Collaboration
Wikis are collaborative creations. Use the options below to get in touch with other Wiki contributors, and start coordinating and sorting your knowledge.
*An IRC Channel has been set up as a place for contributors to meet, discuss the wiki, and hang out. It can be found on irc.quakenet.org #Q3Wiki.
*Each Wiki page has its own Discussion page attached. Here any discussion surrounding an article can be added and read. Frequently, the outcome of these discussions results in changes to the article itself.

Some Ideas
Want to contribute, but don't know where to start? Here are a few ideas for 'articles wanted':
*Console commands and what they do
*Articles on custom maps (add your personal reviews and recommendations!)
*Tricks and tips for official maps (found something not listed?)
*Secrets and Easter Eggs
*Level Editing tutorials
*History - Ever been to a Q3 Tournament or LAN? It probably deserves an article

How do I make a page?
Just take this address and add the name of the page you want to make to the end: http://www.quake4world.com/q3wiki/index.php?title=

Post by **Zyte** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 12:10 pm

nice idea!

Post by **Foo** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 4:09 am

Q3 Preview Screenshots Added!
Managed to find a lot of the original Q3 Prerelease screenshots, and have created an article for them.

It's odd to see the differences between the screenshots and the final game. Even minor things like the shape of the shotgun look strange.

http://www.quake4world.com/q3wiki/index ... ew_gallery

Post by **plained** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 12:55 am

wiki you Foo wiki yooo

Post by **CrinklyArse** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 12:32 am

added a lil bit here and there, nn

Post by **CheapAlert** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 12:37 am

i like this wiki

Post by **NullMind** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 12:18 am

Awesome stuff, I enjoy the wiki's to get a little help as I am new to this.

Thanks

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 8:16 am

Quake III Arena was released for the Sega Dreamcast in 2001 and featured 4 player online play versus Sega Dreamcast and PC gamers. It is considered one of the best console ports of a PC first-person shooter because of its smooth frame-rate and online play. PC players could download the Dreamcast map pack to join in but after the demise of the Dreamcast console, the map pack remained at PC version 1.17. The current PC version 1.32 effectively makes the Dreamcast maps obsolete.

how so? that would only apply to Seganet servers.

Post by **Foo** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 12:07 pm

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:
Quake III Arena was released for the Sega Dreamcast in 2001 and featured 4 player online play versus Sega Dreamcast and PC gamers. It is considered one of the best console ports of a PC first-person shooter because of its smooth frame-rate and online play. PC players could download the Dreamcast map pack to join in but after the demise of the Dreamcast console, the map pack remained at PC version 1.17. The current PC version 1.32 effectively makes the Dreamcast maps obsolete.
how so? that would only apply to Seganet servers.

I have no idea, because I didn't write it. Use the 'discussion' page associated with that page to disput ethe validity of information, or if you have the right answers, rewrite the article :icon14:

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 5:24 pm

Foo wrote:
+JuggerNaut+ wrote:
Quake III Arena was released for the Sega Dreamcast in 2001 and featured 4 player online play versus Sega Dreamcast and PC gamers. It is considered one of the best console ports of a PC first-person shooter because of its smooth frame-rate and online play. PC players could download the Dreamcast map pack to join in but after the demise of the Dreamcast console, the map pack remained at PC version 1.17. The current PC version 1.32 effectively makes the Dreamcast maps obsolete.
how so? that would only apply to Seganet servers.
I have no idea, because I didn't write it. Use the 'discussion' page associated with that page to disput ethe validity of information, or if you have the right answers, rewrite the article :icon14:

okiesdokies.

Post by **Survivor** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 5:45 pm

How the hell do you start a translation?

Post by **Foo** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 5:46 pm

Good question. I'm going to look into that.

*looks*

Hmm, seems the neatest way of doing it is to make a new page for the article you're translating, and prepend the language name to the page name.

So if you wanted to translate the main page to french, create a new page here:

http://quake4world.com/index.php?title=FR/Main_Page

Interlinking I'm gonna have to look into. The internationalisation support in MediaWiki is not as well featured as I was led to believe

Post by **Survivor** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 5:50 pm

The way it's done on wikipedia it goes from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ to http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/. But i don't see how this would work with changing languages.

Post by **Foo** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 5:55 pm

Yeah. I mean, I could set it up like that, but it would mean creating a seperate installation of mediawiki (and new set of DB tables) per language added.

Which is a shame.

Post by **Survivor** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 6:04 pm

Maybe a content switch or something. Hit the switch for your language and the article is loaded in your language. For ordinary wikis this should suck but q4 only uses english terms as far as i know so the keywords in which you will find them are the same and you could change language when you don't understand it in english

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 2:16 pm

dead.

Post by **Foo** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 2:24 pm

Completely. Saw no activity for over 2 months.

No point keeping things up if they're not used.

Same goes for the Q4 wiki and, soon enough, Q4W

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 2:27 pm

that sucks.

ok, i just noticed the link to this thread in Riddla's (read this shit noobs) sticky.