Survey for Minetest newbies about the community wiki

[Wuzzy]

This is a long-time survey primarily directed to Minetest newbies who use the community wiki. If you never played something similar like Minetest previously, even better. It is probably also directed to Minetest veterans who used the Community Wiki to learn Minetest or use it to look up stuff.

The community wiki is on http://wiki.minetest.net/. Please note there’s also another community wiki on http://wiki.minetest.com/ but it is outdated and deprecated. Please do not use it anymore. The survey is only about http://wiki.minetest.net/, not about the other wiki!

Based on the survey results, I (and of course other wiki editors) can draw conclusions into which direction the wiki should go. The ultimate goal (for me) is to make the wiki useful for any Minetest newbie. It should also be also understandable for everyone who is completely new to the genre.

The survey is made of two parts, the first part consist of questions you could probably answer immediately, the second part are requests which can be answered later. Everything is about the community wiki, of course.


Survey

Part 1

1. Did you always find what you searched for?
2. Did you understand everything so far?
3. Which are the questions which are not answered by the wiki but should?
4. Which new topics do you want to have covered?
5. Overall: Do you think you understood Minetest with help of the Wiki?

Part 2

1. Whenever a question arises which should be answered in the wiki, say it. Especially if this is a question which is provenly asked often. (see http://wiki.minetest.net/FAQ)
2. Whenever you think another topic should be covered, say it.
3. Whenever you did not understand something in the wiki, say it.
4. Whenever you feel the need to add any other comments about the wiki, do it. ;-)

[leetelate]

When i found minetest 2? months ago, i had not played mc but had seen a video of it being played. The crafting info on the wiki was good, but i remember it being limited. Like there was stuff missing. You should check that. Never knew there were two of them. I wonder now if i went to the wrong one?

If it doesn't have one, it should have a guide, like the one posted on here somewhere. Also have a note in there, hopefully where i would have seen it, about there being mods and how those change things. There really should be a mod guide requirement with each mod. I'll do that for mine now. WITH PICTURES LIKE ON THE MAIN WIKI FOR CRAFTING THE MOD STUFF and maybe even screenshots of what the mod DOES. I was a terrible n00b and had no idea about anything. Perhaps there should be an extension of the wiki , or a MOD WIKI for people to put in the stuff about their mods.

[Wuzzy]

Thanks for replying.

On the current wiki, crafting is almost complete AFAIK. You were probably on the old wiki. But the group system is in some parts not represented in the crafts, which makes the crafts technically wrong. But this sadly will stay this way because BlockMen, the wiki admin, is against it and insist on animations. It’s a long story …

There is a brief introduction to mods on <http://wiki.minetest.net/Mods>.
I think all the technical requirements for mod documentation in the wiki are there. Mod pages should be like normal wiki pages with the difference that the page title is in the syntax “mods/<modname>/topic name”, for example: “mods/mycoolmod/My Cool Block”. So far there is just one page about a block from a mod. I focused on minetest_game and the engine in the last weeks.

I do not know what you mean with “guide”.