Oct. 03, 2015 8:44 PM
As you have seen from the latest big announcement, Beywiki is merging with Beyblade Wiki, and this of course involves a lot of work that we cannot do all on our own, so we'd like to ask for your help!
This topic is actually the easy part of the whole move: all you need is an account on the Beyblade Wiki, and then you do copy-paste!
Worklist:
(Article titles in blue have a formatted full-Beyblade article already; only the separate parts' articles need to be created.)
This is not to say that it is not up for debate, but globally it should be safe to transfer the above articles from Beywiki to Beyblade Wiki, whether the articles exist there already or not.
And of course, please post about your progress here, to avoid people working on the same thing twice!
As more articles are categorized into the two main lists, the copy-paste sections will be posted here so that you all can know which articles are OK to move. Thank you to all who will contribute, in advance! Get your eyes on that Peridot Face!
This topic is actually the easy part of the whole move: all you need is an account on the Beyblade Wiki, and then you do copy-paste!
Worklist:
(Article titles in blue have a formatted full-Beyblade article already; only the separate parts' articles need to be created.)
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This is not to say that it is not up for debate, but globally it should be safe to transfer the above articles from Beywiki to Beyblade Wiki, whether the articles exist there already or not.
And of course, please post about your progress here, to avoid people working on the same thing twice!
As more articles are categorized into the two main lists, the copy-paste sections will be posted here so that you all can know which articles are OK to move. Thank you to all who will contribute, in advance! Get your eyes on that Peridot Face!
(Oct. 10, 2015 8:18 PM)~Mana~ Wrote: [ -> ]It has come to my attention that a few people have some misconceptions on how this article conversion should be going. I implore that everyone reads this guide for a general idea on the conversion process, as it should clear a few things up for everyone.
I'll also elaborate once again; "copy-paste" does not mean to directly copy and paste the entire article. It's the content on the article that needs that, not the layout and the templates. If you're going to be copy and pasting as well, I advise you hop into the editor on Beywiki and copy from there, as you can see the source code for the article there, and it prevents the formatting (font, colour, size etc) from being copied as span tags as well.
If anyone does have any questions, pop me a message here and I'll reply as soon as I see the message. If you prefer quick responses as well, message me and ask for my Skype, as a few editors have asked already.
EDIT: Just checked over The Beymaster's issue and thought I'd touch on it; for Beyblade articles, the Article Layouts include text under each part heading that looks something similar to {{Part|PARTTYPE - PARTNAME}}. This is a Part Import, which will fetch the information needed from the article for that part. For example, for Round Shell MS, the article for the Attack Ring would be "Attack Ring - Turtle Crusher".
Of course, if you go to create the Beyblade article using those, as you haven't created the Part articles yet, you're just going to see a wall like this when you preview your edit:
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Because of this, when working on a Beyblade article, you must create the articles for the individual parts used on the Beyblade first. Your process should basically consist of:
Check the Part Articles already exist >>> Create any Part Articles that don't exist and fill them in with the information from the Beyblade article >>> Wrap the "Description" heading in <onlyinclude> tags (see How to Utilise Part Imports) >>> Create/Edit the Beyblade Article using our Page Layouts >>> Test that the finished result appears properly.
It makes Beyblade articles seem like a lengthly process, but that's exactly what it is. We never expected the process to be easy, but it makes the article system as a whole function far better.