Talk: Community portal

== Adding new scrolls ==

A set of step-by-step instructions for adding new scrolls would be very helpful.  I was trying to add a relatively new scroll (Ripper) and managed to figure out that it needed a /data page, but that's about as far as I got.  I seem to have set up the /data page correctly: [[Ripper/data]] but I don't know how to get it added to the [[List_of_scrolls]] and such.  Will it update automatically, given enough time?

I imagine that with a set of step-by-step instructions for adding scrolls, the database here would be updated much more quickly.  Perhaps it could be added to the [[Help:Contents]] page, or linked from there?

[[Special:Contributions/98.27.60.200|98.27.60.200]] 06:07, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

: Hello! You're absolutely right about that there should be some instructions about adding new scrolls (and actually updating existing ones). That was something I wanted to do (and should have done), but unfortunately I'm lacking the time to write them at the moment and nobody else is active enough on the wiki either. :( 
: For your information, you were right about using [[Template:Scroll data]] for creating [[:Category:Scroll data pages|data subpages]]. As for [[:Category:Scrolls|scroll pages]] themselves, they're using a combination of [[Template:Scroll page]], [[Template:Scroll infobox]], and [[Template:Scroll data]]'s [[Template:Scroll data#Related templates|sub-templates]] which allow us to display data previously stored in /data subpages. I actually implemented a way to preload these pages with appropriate templates but it wasn't quite accessible, so I've just added a section about that in the documentation of [[Template:Scroll data#Preloading|Scroll data]] and [[Template:Scroll page#Preloading|Scroll page]].
: In order to update [[List of scrolls]], and any such scroll table, one have to manually insert the new rows in [[Template:Scroll table]]. However, thanks to data storage subpages, only scrolls' name is to be specified in the table, other information is retrieved from these subpages.
: I hope this helps... Creating help pages is definitely a thing to do, but I can't guarantee it to be done in the near future as there are still many things to update and improve on this wiki, and I unfortunately seem to be the only one to do it...  :( However, if you feel confident enough with what I said, feel free to initiate them. I was planning to create two pages: [[Scrolls Wiki:Scroll pages]] for explaining the scroll page and data storage structure, and [[Help:Creating a scroll page]] with detailed steps about how to properly create these pages. A page with a list of actions to do when a new Scrolls version is released would probably be useful as well. That would include creating new pages and adding rows to the scrolls table as I said, but also updating the [[version history]] and add the release date to [[Template:History/row]].
: By the way, I created all scroll (and data) pages that were missing as of now. Some existing scrolls may not be up-to-date yet though (probably since [[Version history#beta_0_110|0.110]]), so feel free to update them as you can.
: -- [[User:Fomtg|fomtg]] 23:42, 14 January 2014 (UTC)