Okay, I think the biggest problem with it is people wanted to be recognized. So I've made up this new template that will appear at the top of every single page, so absolutely everybody can have their 10 seconds of fame. The system will make sure that you get credited for your work, and if you want to name a series of events "Wedge's Awesome Clock" it will allow for it. Maybe if people realize they can name an event system after themselves they'll rush to make them.
http://i32.tinypic.com/2j0kumd.pngI whipped this up tonight. It lets you name your guide, (even seperately of the article if you wish, and if for some reason you want to put multiple guides on the same page it will create a table of contents with the name of each guide as an entry. In this example, if there were a table of contents, there'd be one entry and it would read "Redundant header that should probably be deleted."
It lets you set the guide author and the date you created the guide on. The wiki will automatically update the revision date as you edit it. The category also sorts the article into the category. By default there are Modding, Mapping, Eventing, and Building categories. It supports custom categories as well but you are discouraged from using them. We can't have 100 categories called "Blockhead57's Awesome Articles" that nobody can find. Only the main categories will get linked to on the main page, and custom ones can get added as they grow in size or as the become necessary.
As you can see, this article is in the category "Test Pages."
Anyway, that's all I have for now. I've got a couple of ideas as well, including setting up a usergroup and secret forum on the RTB forums that gives you whatever Ephialtes doesn't mind setting up (I'm thinking some sort of wiki mod powers as well as a cool colored name/fancy badge that gets you bragging rights). Anybody can join the group but you'll get kicked for not regularly contributing.
Also, I'm planning on making a template that will let you type in events in plain text (eg 30 ontouch player kill) and it will automatically put it into a beautiful table just like in the game.
I'm also going to be experimenting through all kinds of organizational methods using templates, hopefully this wiki will be a lot more automatic than the last one, with changes, new articles, categories, etc showing up right on the front page. I'd love to put in a top contributers list as well but that might be beyond my or mediawiki's ability.
What do you guys think? What do you guys want?
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