FAQ on Wiki Updates

[Fyron]

The port of the FAQ on the SEWiki was getting a bit excessive with the sublinks, so I have now edited all of the pages to a new format. Now, every #.# section is entirely contained within one page. All of the extra decimal digits have been dropped, due to conflicts with how the table of contents boxes are generated for an article. I don't think this is a big issue, personally. This will greatly reduce the number of pages, while still keeping each page at a reasonable size. Navigation will be easier, finding information will be easier, and you can still make links to specific questions by copying the link from the Contents box. Note that some of these links can get rather long, so make sure to use the URL UBB code tags when putting them in forum links, like so:

Code:

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short text to display

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http://wiki.spaceempires.net/index.php/FAQ_for_SEIV

What do you think?

We could still use help porting over the data.

[Asmala]

Has anybody tried to make a script to port the data from forum FAQ to SEWiki FAQ?

[Fyron]

Unfortunately that only gets so far. What do you do with lines such as "6.4.1.2"? To make them look nice, they need that replaced with little section headers, which can't be automated. I have been using regular expression parsing for some grunt work, so all I need do is skim through and add the titles. Like these:

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^([0-9]+).([0-9]+).([0-9]+) 

becomes:

\n=== ===\n

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Check out sections 6.1-6.4 to see the latest progress!

[Fyron]

Fun with wiki templates! Added a nav box template to the bottom of:

http://wiki.spaceempires.net/index.php/FAQ_6.1_for_SEIV

Also, see discussion on FAQ formatting!

http://wiki.spaceempires.net/index.p...#Fancy_Nav_Box

[Asmala]

I see the problem. It's a huge amount of work to port the whole FAQ.

[Asmala]

I just made the section 1.2 to WikiFAQ. What do you think?

By the way, I don't quite understand the answer to the question in that section. I mean it's like the answer is to a different question.