Getting Started – Bohemia Interactive Community

Revision as of 16:07, 16 November 2019

Account Creation

In order to prevent vandalism and bot spam, self-creation of accounts has been disabled.
You need to ask for an account creation, Wiki account that will be linked to your Bohemia Interactive account.

Do you need an account?

Before asking for an account, ask yourself:

Do you want to edit only a couple of pages where you noticed an error?: If so, it is better to ask someone to edit said page(s) on the Arma Discord in the #community_wiki channel.

Else, head towards Dwarden (or any available official Community Manager) and ask for a Wiki account on BI Forums or the Arma Discord!

Rules & Recommendations

Read the Bohemia Interactive Community Guidelines
Use the BI Community Wiki naming conventions
Check the cheatsheet, it holds all the basic editing information
You can refer to Bohemia Interactive Community:Formatting for information on wikitext
Use categories to distinguish content specific for a particular project (e.g. not everything for OFP makes sense for Arma etc.)
Check the "This is a minor edit" box for small edits to keep version history easy to read
Include some summary text of edits you have made
Use the AnswerMe template if you have a question
Add your signature on talk pages (with four tildes ~~~~) - see these instructions.
Collaborate with other contributors on the Arma 3 Discord #community_wiki channel.
For experimentation either use this public Sandbox or the one in your personal space.

You can find some excellent starting points for learning to edit the BI Wiki below, and on the help page

MediaWiki Tutorials & Guides

BiKi TODO list

Expand Stubs pages or remove the {{Stub}} marker
Add examples to Examples Needed pages
Add "See Also" related links to See Also Needed pages
Format function's description for unformatted BIS_fnc pages
Fix or remove dead links in Broken Links pages
Answer questions asked in Answer Me pages
More generally, BiKi maintenance according to what is listed in Maintenance and Tracking Categories

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-[[Category:BI Wiki Policies]]
+== Account Creation ==
-[[Category:Community Wiki]]
-==Account Creation==
+In order to  prevent vandalism and bot spam, self-creation of accounts has been disabled.<br>
-In order to  prevent vandalism and bot spam, self-creation of accounts has been disabled.<br> Therefore you need to ask''' '''''@Dwarden''''' '''for an account [http://discord.gg/arma at our discord], or on [https://forums.bohemia.net/profile/743078-dwarden/ BI Forums].
+You need to ask for an account creation, Wiki account that will be linked to your [[Bohemia Interactive]] account.
+=== Do you need an account? ===
+Before asking for an account, ask yourself:
+; Do you want to edit only a couple of pages where you noticed an error?
+: If so, it is better to ask someone to edit said page(s) on the [http://discord.gg/arma Arma Discord] in the {{Inline code|#community_wiki}} channel.
+Else, head towards {{User|Dwarden}} (or any available official Community Manager) and ask for a Wiki account on [https://forums.bohemia.net/profile/743078-dwarden/ BI Forums] or the [http://discord.gg/arma Arma Discord]!
+== Rules &amp; Recommendations ==
-==Rules & Recommendations==
 * Read the [[Bohemia Interactive Community:Guidelines | Bohemia Interactive Community Guidelines]]
 * Use the [[Naming_Conventions|BI Community Wiki naming conventions]]
-*[[Cheatsheet|Check the cheatsheet]], it holds all the basic editing information
+* [[Cheatsheet|Check the cheatsheet]], it holds all the basic editing information
 * You can refer to [[Bohemia Interactive Community:Formatting]] for information on wikitext
 * Use categories to distinguish content specific for a particular project (e.g. not everything for OFP makes sense for Arma etc.)
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 * Include some summary text of edits you have made
 * Use the [[:Category:AnswerMe| AnswerMe template]] if you have a question
-* Add your '''signature''' on talk pages.
+* Add your '''signature''' on talk pages (with four tildes <tt>~~<nowiki/>~~</tt>) - see {{Wikipedia|Wikipedia:Signatures|these instructions}}.
-**See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sign_your_posts_on_talk_pages these instructions.]
+* Collaborate with other contributors on the [https://discord.gg/arma Arma 3 Discord] {{Inline code|#community_wiki}} channel.
-* Collaborate with other contributors on the [https://discord.gg/arma Arma 3 Discord #community_wiki] channel.
 * For experimentation either use this public [[Sandbox]] or the one in your [[Special:Mypage|personal space]].
 You can find some excellent starting points for learning to edit the BI Wiki below, and on the  [[Help:Contents|help page]]
+=== MediaWiki Tutorials & Guides ===
+* [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User's Guide]
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial An excellent Wiki tutorial]
+* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:FAQ MediaWiki FAQ]
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+== BiKi TODO list ==
-<div class="floating-box">
-===Tutorials & Guides===
-:[http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User's Guide]
-:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial An excellent Wiki tutorial]
-:[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:FAQ MediaWiki FAQ]
-</div>
-</div>
-<div style="margin:0 auto; width:1024px;">
+* Expand [[:Category:Stubs|Stubs pages]] or remove the <tt>{{<nowiki/>Stub}}</tt> marker
-<div class="floating-box">
+* Add examples to [[:Category:Example needed|Examples Needed pages]]
-===BiKi To-Do===
+* Add "See Also" related links to [[:Category:See also needed|See Also Needed pages]]
-:[[:Category:Stubs|Stubs]]
+* Format function's description for [https://community.bistudio.com/wiki?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/BIS_fnc_exportFunctionsToWiki&limit=50 unformatted BIS_fnc pages]
-:[[:Category:Example needed|Examples needed]]
+* Fix or remove dead links in [[:Category:Pages_with_broken_file_links|Broken Links pages]]
-:[[:Category:See also needed|See also needed]]
+* Answer questions asked in [[:Category:AnswerMe|Answer Me pages]]
-:[https://community.bistudio.com/wiki?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/BIS_fnc_exportFunctionsToWiki&limit=420&from=0 Need formatting]
+* More generally, BiKi maintenance according to what is listed in [[:Category:Maintenance|Maintenance]] and [[Special:TrackingCategories|Tracking Categories]]
-:[https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Pages_with_broken_file_links Broken links]
-:[[:Category:Stubs|Stubs]]
-:[[:Category:AnswerMe|Answers needed]]
+[[Category:BI Wiki Policies]]
-</div>
+[[Category:Community Wiki]]
-</div>