Conclave of Shadows

General Index

• About Section section provides help on various topics.
• General Information is home to a bunch of useful general guides.
• Group Strategies for all your grouping needs.
• Raid Strategies are mandatory reading material for all raiders.
• Rules Index are the heart of the guild. Read them.
• Lists are a moving target, keep an eye on them!

About the wiki

Yeah, a Wiki. You ask why? Well… Most guild sites use forums for everything, ranging from out-of-game loot auctions, to polls, to information sharing, and a very very very long etcetera. IMHO, there’s nothing quite up to par with a Wiki for shared information.

It’s very simple ATM, but I’m working on stuff, and will be releasing it as I get it done. Currently up the agenda:

• Fulltext search using Ferret.
• Support for WikiLinks everywhere else, including news posts, forums, etc Sorted as of last night.
• Breadcrumb hierarchical navigation on pages sorted.

As we build more stuff into this, I’d be very proud to hear people talk about our wiki. So, spread the word!

Editing stuff

We use textile all over the place. It’s a really easy way to write html in a clean way. There’s one only custom extension to textile at work here: our wiki links. The parse engine is damn simple and fast. You basically just have to write WikiWords within two pairs brackets, and they will be turned into a link. You can also use categories in there, like StuffCategory/StuffPage.

You can also use raw html, as long as you separate it from any textile by a single blank line. I have not yet tested wether WikiLinks get parsed inside raw html, so either try yourself or use textile.

Any page can have sub-pages nested within. However this is currently not represented on the pages, but only in the url. Officers creating pages should make sure to add links to the page on it’s parent pages, where corresponds. For example, there’s About the Website, which is a child of About Section. I have already added a link to the former within the latter.

Generally, when accessing a non-existing page, it will be created for you and opened for edition. However, this is, for now, only doable by officers.

To edit a page, just access it and you’ll see an “Edit” link at the top. Alternatively, you can directly access the edit form by appending “/edit” to the url. This front page is a special duplicated page. It’s real url is /root_index.

Every time you save a page’s content, it’s saved as a “revision”. This means, that the previous content hasn’t been overwritten, but is saved as a “previous state” in the database. When accessing a page, you will always see the latest revision.

This also means that you can go wild editing pages, and if something goes wrong, just ask an officer to “undo” your mess.

Guidelines

Textile allows you to use the raw power of html. For who knows the stuff, this means that you could break the site’s layout. A little bit of care is advised.

Headings

The site layout only uses H1 and H2, so you can use H3+ yourself.

Images

We do not allow file upload at the moment. I recommend using flick, dropbox, or some other free image hosting service for the time being. I use flickr myself.

You should generally not use images that are too large. The content frame for the two columns layout is ~600px wide, so don’t make them larger. There are plenty of programs for image resizing out there, just google for them.

Content

Keep what you write concise and informational. For subjective, opinionated discussion, I’m writing a fora software for us to flame each other.

The content you post should be contrasted information, and not “something you heard”.

As a member, you can edit anything, really. A wiki is meant to be a form of free expression. Whatever I write, you can change, and viceversa. There are no “ranks” in here, beside page creation or deletion.

Don’t bother vandalizing (as if one of our members would ever do such a thing, tsk tsk). I will just undo what you did and be really really pissed at you for a week or two.

Also, content authors are never shown in the wiki. There is no attribution, just information. The system tracks what members change, however. I thought of adding some sort of statistics page, but never got to do it. The system still tracks users, though.

I have changed my mind about this, mainly because I was told that I was being stupid. Wiki pages will now show the author and date of the last revision.