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Creating New Categories

For some of us overly-organized types, there is a tendency to want to categorise everything. In fact, a quick visit to Uncategorized pages should show only a very few pages. There's a place for everything else, and everything is in its place.

Others don't want to stop there, and that's where we need some good old NSwiki consensus. It's possible that Hell Bovines want a lettuce category for all their different brands, or SAG Weapons Corporation needs a complete catalog of handguns. Well, they both can, at present, by adding those items to their factbooks. What we're trying to avoid is the existence of standalone categories for Lettuce and Handguns.

If you want to create a new factbook for your main nation, go right ahead. Instructions are posted in Category:Factbooks. Before creating anything else, though, post a comment here, bring it to #nswiki, or drop a note on the Talk page of one of the sysops. Thanks.

Custom NSwiki Signatures

To add a custom signature, you can go to your Preferences panel (the link is on the top of the standard skin). There you will see a box with "Your nickname (for signatures): Here you can insert code to add more than just your User name.

Don't go overboard! This is more for convenience than for making some glorious sig that will awe and amaze your fellow NSwikians. Here's a suggestion for a simple modification that will make it easier for a fellow reader to click directly to your Talk page:

]]|[[User talk:YourUserNameHere|<small>talk</small>

Looks a bit funky, but that's how you code it. Yes, it really is supposed to start with the ]] facing that way. You may prefer to use a Greek (I use Θ because it looks like a little frisbee), Cyrillic or some other fun ♠ ♣ ♦ ♥ symbols instead of the <small>talk</small>.

Now be sure not to leave YourUserNameHere intact, please! Change it to your User name, which may or may not be the same as your Nation name. It's the name you log in with.

My resulting sig shows up as Frisbeeteria|Θtalk, and the talk link takes you directly to my Talk page. When a message is placed on your User talk page, a banner shows up stating that you've got new messages. Beats telegrams anyday, at least within the wiki.

Linking common terms to Wikipedia

There are a number of red links to 'common' topics, such as communist or human. Rather than fill up our NSwiki with a bunch of (probably-contested) terminology, it makes sense to link such things directly to the Wikipedia entry. The easy way is like this:

"It is a [[Wikipedia:communist|]] nation."

→ "It is a communist nation."

Or make it specific to a nation, as Constantinopolis has done.

"That Constantinopolite is a [[Communist Party of Constantinopolis|Communist|]]."

→ "That Constantinopolite is a Communist."

Take special note of the pipe ( | ) symbol before the final brackets. Add the pipe, and the word after the colon gets piped directly out. You don't see the Wikipedia or Constantinopolis reference. If you prefer, you can change the text after the pipe:

"Our national language is [[Wikipedia:Sindarin|Elvish]]."

→ "Our national language is Elvish."

{{stub}}

This article is a stub. You can help NSwiki by improving it.

Have you ever clicked that stub link? I hadn't. I thought it belonged on every article that needed more information. Not so, as it turns out. Click it and read.

This is a wiki. Every page could stand improvement. If you add a stub to every short page you post, they don't count in our page count. It's not that big a deal, but leaving off unnecessary stubs helps give us a better understanding of the progress we're making in building the wiki.

In short (stubbishly, you might say), don't use gratuitious {{stub}}s. Even this one's a fake, just so the Village Pump doesn't disappear into statistical oblivion.

Graphics with Wrapping Text

Adding text wrap in graphics is easier than you think. You just need a small table. For example, here's a simple pictureframe:

{| align="right" border="1"

| http://www.paranoia.ru/mn/x-files/images/ftr1d.jpg

|}

Can't Upload Graphics

I can't seem to be able to upload any files. I keep trying to upload the electoral symbol of the Communist Party of Constantinopolis, and I get the error: Could not copy file "/tmp/phpokoP44" to "/home/sc434/ns/wiki/images/c/c4/Communist_Party_of_Constantinopolis.gif". -- Constantinopolis 14:56, 15 Oct 2004 (GMT)

Uploads ought to work - I'll look into it when I get home. Possibly a naming problem? --Goobergunch|? 17:57, 15 Oct 2004 (GMT)

Okay, it's a PHP safe mode problem, which I can do very little about. I'd have to get Servage to fix it, which might not be that easy. --Goobergunch|? 19:57, 18 Oct 2004 (GMT)

iCapital!

Are NSwiki entries case sensitive? I'm just asking for the reason that I love things to be, Capitalized for some reason, and tend to turn many things into a proper noun. I created an entry regarding the Multiverse, realized there were entries linking to it, and went about Capitalizing the word Multiverse in all those entries. Anal retentive? Yes. While doing this though, in the page on Earth, I saw the couplet "fractal reality," and couldn't help but change it to "Fractal Reality." I did, but then the link wouldn't work! So I had to settle with "Fractal reality." Ahem. The point- Case sensitive NSwiki? --Fodian Federa 00:52, 25 Oct 2004 (GMT)