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[Jynks]

I was having a look at the wiki today and was wondering why you haven't included an area where users can up load snippets of code to start creating a code depository? Or is there already one there I am fairly new to wiki's.

[bladder]

code can be included with the explanations in the wiki. There's nothing stopping someone from uploading code snippets to show whatever in action. If it's appropriate then - for example here is a page with code snippets.

[Jynks]

ic... .. .

I have just had a rather large thread about text based adventure games for beginners. In that thread with help of a few of your members we devised two different ways of creating text phasers for processing user input.

From the time those posts have happened I have already seen one request in the same section asking about the same problem. So I thought I'd put the code into the wiki and it would be there forever...

But I couldn't see a sub heading to place random code snipits. Or am i mis understanding the purpose of the wikii?

Re-request of text phraser
Chat about text based games includeing 2 working code snipits for a text phraser
Original thread about text adventure games (no working examples I could find

[anubis]

The sensible thing would be to write an article about it and include the code.

[bladder]

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But I couldn't see a sub heading to place random code snipits. Or am i mis understanding the purpose of the wikii?

Even random code snippets have to go under some title, or otherwise you couldn't find them. What you could do is create a new page in the wiki called "Text adventures" or "Text parsing" or whatever title seems appropriate to you, add a little description of the problem of what text parsing/adventures is/are and add in any code snippets you think is appropriate.

Then when someone searches for text parsing or text adventures that page will pop up. Just do it in anyway you think is most appropriate. Any problems with it will get edited away by other people - they'll even add more to it eventually.

[Jynks]

@Bladder - but I can not see where to add these pages... for example I click on the page for articals and tutorials and then hit the edit but I can only acess the edit for the top of the page... I can place a page underneath the text that says "A wide range of topics are covered here in series format." But I am unable to add info into the place wher it looks like it should go.. for the example in this thread "T / Text Based Adventure Games" or "P / Parsers - Text" or whatever.

Mabey you are ment to add to the top of the page and then a mod will move into the artical section if aproved?

PS - I am just curious I am not really ready to add things to wiki just yet but the consept of it rules and if I got a lot of help from the fourm (as I have) it is only fair that I add to it.

[bladder]

That's a catagory page. That alphabetical list of articles are added automatically by the wiki software. For example when you create a page called "Text adventures" or whatever, then at the bottom of the newly created page you add this:

[[Category: Articles and Tutorials]]

Then that article will automatically show up on that page you're talking about. To create new page you can just add the page name after the wiki's URL, so to create a page called "My awsome page" you'd type this in your browsers address bar:

http://www.devmaster.../My_awsome_page

hit enter and you are taken to that page and you can start editing (if that page doesn't exist then it's created automatically)