There are now 7 wikis.
Tikiwiki (http://wiki.simutrans-germany.com/) ( German, English, Swedish, Czech, Português ) Development section (http://simutrans-germany.com/wiki/wiki/tiki-index.php?page_ref_id=150) 20 languages
english (http://en.wiki.simutrans.com/) ( Mediawiki ) out dated - moved to Tikiwiki
japanese (http://www.japanese.simutrans.com/) ( Pukiwiki )
french (http://fr.wiki.simutrans.com/) ( Mediawiki )
spanish (http://es.wiki.simutrans.com/) ( Mediawiki )
italian (http://it.wiki.simutrans.com/) ( Mediawiki )
Programming Wiki (http://simutrans.wiki.sourceforge.net/) english, not editable by normal users
Dat-reference on the German wiki:
http://simutrans-germany.com/wiki/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=en_dat_Files
The pages on the 'German wiki' are partly translated to English (and other languages). Pages in German are usually up-to-date. Any help with translation is appreciated. This wiki allows anonymous edits.
I hope that I am posting this in the right place - I should like to apply for a Wiki account. I am interested in completing the .dat file reference for the English language.
for Tikiwiki wiki.simutrans-germany.com (http://wiki.simutrans-germany.com) register in wiki your self
other wikis ( MediaWiki ) create a admin your account
The Tikiwiki is just in the German language, isn't it? I tried creating an account in MediaWiki, but there was no option, and I was directed to the forum to ask somebody here to create an account for me, which is what I was doing with the message above...
the development section is in 21 languages
en (http://simutrans-germany.com/wiki/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=en_dat_Files)
en-uk (http://simutrans-germany.com/wiki/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=en-uk_dat-Files)
missing the text, parameters to 95 % completly
Ahh, I see. Is the Tikiwiki the most up-to-date one, then? I was under the impression from the original post in this thread that that wiki was only German.
Edit: Whenever I tried to register on that page, it gave me an error without any further information (it just said "Error" at the top, and, further down, "You are not logged in").
Javascript and Cookies activated?
I think so...
the register page (http://simutrans-germany.com/wiki/wiki/tiki-register.php) works for me ( testet de-IE7 and en-FF3 )
you can edited en and other languages by anonymous
de require register
I tried again using IE-tab, but I had no success - it still gave an error message that simply said "error". Also, that wiki is in German - I cannot find the English version. Is it not possible to register for the MediaWiki?
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Seriously. Who is that mythical admin of English wiki? Last I remember it was Benjad - and that was perhaps two years back. Now try perhaps Dirk Burkholz (dburkholz?) and Kristian (aka stormoog).
If nobody steps up within a week, I will edit database and proclaim a random user of choice new admin for life. And cage him so that he can't run away like the previous failed experiments 8)
German wiki is lately more offline than my grandmother :( edit: ok, now it is back. Probably bad timing (every day?).
because nobody in the last 1 1/2 years managed the German translated into English
english development section (http://simutrans-germany.com/wiki/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=en_Devel_index)
in english Mediawiki in last 1 years no write a user a longer texts
the English Mediawiki has not even the contents of the old English Tikiwikis after nearly 2 years
I have no problems, and I call on the wiki several times daily on
If I may, I would maybe like to take a shot at at least trying to update a little bit of the Wiki reference- I've been playing with Simutrans for about 9 years now. And I will try to exploit as many of the features in some test games and perhaps have English text to contribute for the wiki.
Heheh though interestingly the development moves at light speed with Simutrans.
-Seth
I'm still administrating the English wiki and even seldomly adding new users. Unfortunately none of them are contributing currently...
My idea was to make the english-wiki much better. This was for a lot of month. But I wanted no new dispute with Frank.
And I think the german-wiki can used with english. So is the english wiki important?
What wiki do you use? The german (in english) or the english?
Well, I've always considered that German wiki was and is more complete. It contains a lot of specific info about dat files and object attributes. English wiki is more general (how to install, how to play, tips, tricks, etc..)
Ok. But wich wiki do you suport?
mainly, the ES version of english wiki..
Should we have a poll?
About what? Which wiki should the community support? Why not.. :)
Frank make a very good job at the german wiki. But we don't know what wiki will used from english-speaking people.
Do you mean if it's worth to translate the german wiki to english or use the *official* wiki and add new stuff there from german wiki?
I think, it is possible to translate at the german-wiki.
Edit: But this is not important, if all people search in the eng. Wiki. So we don't know what the user need.
Therefore, what we really need to know first is which wiki is more used. I suggest you to create a poll at Simutrans Discussion board with the following content:
Question: What wiki do you use/visit more?
Options: German wiki -- English wiki -- Native language wiki (ES, IT, JP, FR)--- wiki? what wiki?
How many wikis there are?
How are the Internet addresses?
First is the german wiki (TikiWiki): http://simutrans-germany.com/wiki/wiki/tiki-index.php (No english mainpage, I think)
Second the englisch wiki (MediaWiki): http://en.wiki.simutrans.com/index.php/Main_Page (some pages are in italian)
the Simutrans wiki frontpage is wiki.simutrans.com, from where you can access to EN, ES, JP, FR, DE and IT wikis.
Is this all the same MediaWiki? I mean, there is no cross-linking between this wikis.
Ok. I will build a poll.
Edit: Oh. I can't make a poll in Simutrans discussion. :(
As far as I know, all are independent wikis, but actually I'm not sure at all.
For the poll, ask to an admin...
The question is not: Waht for wiki?
The question is: Dat reference from tikiwiki for all languages?
yes or no
From my part, I would use german wiki as Dat Reference for all languages and english wiki for the rest of things (tips, howto's, etc..)
The wikis are independent.
The german link at wiki.simutrans.com is broken. The www. is to much.
Really, it does not make any sense to have more than one wiki per language...
IMHO it does not make any sense to have more than one wiki, no matter the number of languages... but things aren't always just as we'd like ;)
First things first, we need people to actually manage these wikis, and then we can talk about using them! All evidence speaks in favour of using the German wiki as main one:
a) active admin
b) can register
c) up to date
Edit: Since Dirk is here, no need to dive into the depths of binary codes in Mediawiki database :)
Hey, I'm still alive! ;) The main problem aren't admins but contributors. Let's talk about contribution first instead of technology.
I've looked up some information:
French wiki is administrated by Lmallet only. There's currently one active contributor.
Spanish wiki is administrated by vilvoh and Zeno. There's currently no active contributor.
Italian wiki is administrated by Ozone only. There's currently no active contributor.
English wiki is administrated by me only. There's currently no active contributor.
I've planned some software updates within May.
OK, you are right. Maybe the problem is walking in circles. Until now, it seemed to me that almost all wikis are dead because nobody can register.
I will have a look into that. Older versions of MediaWiki suffered from letting spammers in but the new versions should avoid that.
Dirk, I would like to contribute to the English wiki.
-Seth
My suggestion would be, to use the dat-reference in the 'German' wiki.
http://simutrans-germany.com/wiki/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=en_dat_Files
Although this wiki is mainly in German, many pages are translated into English at least.
These pages are ready for anonymous translations in several languages. It is possible to translate only small parts of a page (see this icons on the right of each page). I must admit that writing in this wiki feels sometimes like hacking. However, Frank has put (and is putting) a lot of effort in these pages to keep them up-to-date. So there is no need to start from scratch with your favorite language.
Please: just help translating ;)
The German wiki dat reference is miles better (more up to date, more examples, etc) than the current English one, so I suggest a full English translation of the German dat reference (wherever it ends up being posted on the web!)
I'm currently trying to flesh out and add links for different entries. This will be a big project and it will go slow as I also have to upload images too. But hopefully you all might like the current edits. It's slow going but steady!
I try to do a little bit each day.
-Seth
New images are not added, however I have begun to expand the tool descriptions. I also made a bunch of other miscellaneous changes that you can see in the Recent Changes section.
If anyone has any priorities of things they would like to see documented in the Wiki, please let me know.
I'm also trying to add new categories to aid navigation, and eventually I hope to have some templates at the bottom that will allow rapid browsing of the items in a toolbar.
-Seth
(Sorry for dropping in so late, I don't have enough time to properly follow the whole forum's activity.)
Apart from a serious lack of spare time, there were several problems that prohibited me from writing more in the (English) Wiki, and I think these are not specific to me alone:
- redundancy with user+reference guides, redundancy with other websites and forum boards, redundancy with translated pages in German Wiki
- unknown audience (beginners, people who want to look into the depths of gameplay, pak creators, developers)
- the high speed of development in ST, which can make documentation obsolete quickly
- uncertainty with standardized terminology (similar for simutranslator)
- lack of experience with (and lack of) proper graphics tools (for illustration), but this got better
- lack of existing structure (interconnected pages); several pages should be split up, because they try to cover too much already
Frank copied pak-creation-specific pages to other languages within the German Wiki, to have them translated, but litte happened (sorry). The main obstacle in that for me is that editing in Tiki-Wiki feels rather awkward, I still haven't learnt (or cared to learn) its syntax (which seems so many strange tags). In Media-Wiki (which I also use elsewhere), I can just start typing.
I hesitated to take Frank's (well, nearly 100% of the German Wiki's content is from him) texts and pictures, and put them - translated - into the English Wiki.
Apart from Pak/Dat info (which Frank supplies already), what should go into the Wiki? I suggest these:
- FAQ, so many help requests can be answered with a link to them; this can include hidden features, known limitations, differences to other games of the same genre (TTD is covered to some extent)
- in-depth description of game behaviour, including effects of configuration file parameters
- "best practices", building techniques, common solutions and strategies
- links to further information sources (e.g. pak-specific info) and websites (e.g. addons), including forum discussions
(Description of ST's internals (source code) is IIRC supposed to go into dev Wiki - I can't find the link right now.)
http://forum.simutrans.com/index.php?topic=826.msg7239#msg7239 (http://forum.simutrans.com/index.php?topic=826.msg7239#msg7239)
Frankly, we need a serious discussion about all Simutrans Documentation that is dispersed everywhere. :(
I would prefer that all Simutrans docs, tutorials, texts, e-books, wikis and anything related to "how to play, extend and develop Simutrans" should be stored in one place. I know this will involve Ormac, whoami, Frank, Prissi and other members, active and non-active ones. But it's better a team maintaining a single site than each person maintaining lonely a site.
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