Path of Exile Wiki:Community portal: Difference between revisions

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Advanced editing
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Helping out on the path of exile wiki

The wiki is community maintained and we need everyone to help out.

If you don't have any ideas where to start, here are some ideas:

Browse Category:Maintenance and improve any pages
Improve existing pages (see the section below for more details)
Create new pages if you can't find the information you seek (or create redirect pages if the information exists)
Reduce content-duplication by implementing Labeled Section Transclusion
Help with any of the projects listed on this page

Improving existing pages

Correct spelling and grammar
Make sure the pages are in line with other similar pages (i.e. share similar layout and order of sections)
Adding sources
Add missing information
Improve the understanding of pages by
- rewording complicated/convoluted sentences
- adding examples (consider using the #expr parser function and SMW; avoid too many examples)
- adding LaTeX formulas with Extension:Math
Adding interwiki links to other articles
Verify the information on the page is still correct in regards to the current version of the game
Port existing templates to lua modules

Projects

Semantic Mediawiki rework (also see the discussion on the portal talk page)

Uncompressed DDS files from the ggpk for the wiki

If you've been trying to get images for the wiki from the content.ggpk recently, you'll probably have noticed that they are "no valid dds file".

The image files are compressed with google's brotli library. The first 4 bytes of the file are not part of the image data, but rather a byte-size of the uncompressed image. Some "dds" files may also be text file to contain a pointer to another dds file (like *2DArt/Whatever.dds

If you don't want to handle that yourself you can use PyPoE as long you install the brotli library manually, basically follow those steps

Install Python 3.4 (NOT 3.5) and PyPoE
Navigate to the brotli releases https://github.com/google/brotli/releases
Download the lastest wheel for 3.4, i.e. Brotli-0.5.2-cp34-cp34m-win32.whl
Install with pip install Brotli-0.5.2-cp34-cp34m-win32.whl

Then using the pypoe_ui command in the ggpk viewer, you have check in the options menu that dds files are uncompressed upon extracting them.

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 * [[Path of Exile Wiki:Semantic Mediawiki rework|Semantic Mediawiki rework]] (also see the discussion on the portal talk page)
-==Adding New Languages==
+==Uncompressed DDS files from the ggpk for the wiki==
-We get a lot of inquiries about adding new languages to the site, this section will help guide you through the process of what we need in order to implement these new sections.
+If you've been trying to get images for the wiki from the content.ggpk recently, you'll probably have noticed that they are "no valid dds file".
-If you would like to translate a page, first please let the head admin know on his talk page: [[User_talk:Iamacyborg|Iamacyborg talk]].
+The image files are compressed with google's brotli library. The first 4 bytes of the file are not part of the image data, but rather a byte-size of the uncompressed image.
+Some "dds" files may also be text file to contain a pointer to another dds file (like <code>*2DArt/Whatever.dds</code>
-The steps for translating are the following:
+If you don't want to handle that yourself you can use PyPoE as long you install the brotli library manually, basically follow those steps
-*Create a new page with "/languagecode" added to the end of the pagename of the page you wish to translate. ie. If you want to translate the page "Templar" to Spanish, you would create page "Templar/es". For a list of Language codes, please see: http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php
+* Install Python 3.4 (NOT 3.5) and [https://github.com/OmegaK2/PyPoE PyPoE]
-*At the bottom of the page edit, add the page to the category: <code><nowiki>[[Category:LANGUAGECODE Translation]]</nowiki></code>. ie. Translating a page to Spanish would have <code><nowiki>[[Category:ES Translation]]</nowiki></code> added to the bottom of the edit. This will put all translated pages into a single category.
+* Navigate to the brotli releases https://github.com/google/brotli/releases
-*If the main page and all pages linked to from the main page are translated a sub-domain will be set up for that translation. ie. A translated Spanish wiki would be at es.pathofexilewiki.com. Those who did the translating will be given admin access to this sub-domain.
+* Download the lastest wheel for 3.4, i.e. Brotli-0.5.2-cp34-cp34m-win32.whl
+* Install with <code>pip install Brotli-0.5.2-cp34-cp34m-win32.whl</code>
-We also hope that you can keep an eye on the wiki to prevent vandals, etc.
+Then using the pypoe_ui command in the ggpk viewer, you have check in the options menu that dds files are uncompressed upon extracting them.
-If you have any issues or additional question, post on [[User_talk:Iamacyborg|Iamacyborg talk]] or [[User_talk:Game_widow|Game widow talk]].