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by **rubenwardy** » Sun Aug 26, 2012 17:28

Minetest on Wikipedia

Minetest did not have a wikipedia page, so we are making one.

Help:

Idea by PilzAdam,

Writen by:

Rubenwardy
VanessaE
Calinou
PilzAdam

View it and Help Us

Development Wikipedia Page

Talk to us in #minetest on irc.

by **Phitherek_** » Sun Aug 26, 2012 22:05

Finally! I will try to translate it to Polish wiki ;).

by **sdzen** » Sun Aug 26, 2012 22:26

Minetest (sometimes called Minetest-c55) reverse that Minetest-c55 is the official name of the game.
Edit: and the section on mesecons is almost completely incorrect the ingame material is MESE not mesecons and mesecons is not included into the default game last i checked :P
Edit2: also there appears to be no distinction in the page about the difference between 0.4 and 0.3 stable both of which are now quite different from each other.

by **rubenwardy** » Sun Aug 26, 2012 23:11

sdzen wrote:Minetest (sometimes called Minetest-c55) reverse that Minetest-c55 is the official name of the game.
Edit: and the section on mesecons is almost completely incorrect the ingame material is MESE not mesecons and mesecons is not included into the default game last i checked :P
Edit2: also there appears to be no distinction in the page about the difference between 0.4 and 0.3 stable both of which are now quite different from each other.

Will be adding a new section: development, which will talk about it

List of my mods · by **PilzAdam** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 00:36

There are some wikipedians that want more citations in the article.
So if someone has a link to a review (not a video) that describes the gameplay or other things that are mentioned in the article you can post them here and we will add more citations to the article.

by **Josh** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 02:57

Awesome! this might make Minetest a bit more popular.

by **Josh** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 03:11

I have an idea. On the wikipedia page there could be a video about how to play Minetest properly. This would certainly help some new players.

by **rubenwardy** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 07:33

Josh wrote:I have an idea. On the wikipedia page there could be a video about how to play Minetest properly. This would certainly help some new players.

wikipedia, have you ever seen a encycopedia with a video in?

by **Topywo** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 07:42

rubenwardy wrote:
Josh wrote:I have an idea. On the wikipedia page there could be a video about how to play Minetest properly. This would certainly help some new players.

wikipedia, have you ever seen a encycopedia with a video in?

Google "ecyclopedia with video" :-)

edit: "ecycopedia with video" works too (first thing I tried)

by **rubenwardy** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 07:52

Topywo wrote:
rubenwardy wrote:
Josh wrote:I have an idea. On the wikipedia page there could be a video about how to play Minetest properly. This would certainly help some new players.

wikipedia, have you ever seen a encycopedia with a video in?

Google "ecyclopedia with video" :-)

edit: "ecycopedia with video" works too (first thing I tried)

Not Wikipedia

by **VanessaE** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 10:52

Wikipedia has numerous short videos scattered around through its articles. They are only sparingly used when text or an animated image isn't enough. Wikipedia isn't a "how-to" site, so an instructional video wouldn't be appropriate.

Youtube · by **Lelix** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 13:22

finally!

by **Josh** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 02:52

rubenwardy wrote:
Josh wrote:I have an idea. On the wikipedia page there could be a video about how to play Minetest properly. This would certainly help some new players.

wikipedia, have you ever seen a encycopedia with a video in?

Or a link to a video maybe?

by **RabbiBob** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 09:25

Nice!

Check out these videos, there is enough spread in there to have something representative of the game IMHO: http://www.youtube.com/user/313hummer/videos?query=minetest

Choose one and put it in the External Links section.

I did this for a song my friend wrote about\for Joseph Kittinger (Ever free-fall from space? He did..) on Joe's page and there haven't been any issues with it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kittinger#External_links

(That's me in the red)

by **Guy12** » Sat Sep 08, 2012 18:34

Its seems like a good article. However the article is 'being considered for deletion'? What?

by **VanessaE** » Sat Sep 08, 2012 21:43

Deletionists - they think that they're always right, no matter how wrong they are.

by **Echo** » Sat Sep 08, 2012 21:57

Just came to my mind: In germany we have the political party: "Piratenpartei"
https://lqfb.piratenpartei.de/lf/initiative/show/2293.html
A desicion template for a law to "curb the Wikipedia deletion Nazis"

by **Qaddosh** » Sun Sep 09, 2012 04:19

I'm doing what I can regarding the AfD. Someday, everyone will have their own personal wikis that they will simply exchange knowledge with other personal wikis and the centralized sites such as Wikipedia will be obsolete.
Mark my words.

The 'John F. Lewis' editor has only been registered on Wikipedia since July 28th of this year. I've been registered since 2005 and have been lurking Wikipedia since 2002.

I, for one, think Minetest is very worthy. There are plenty of articles on Wikipedia that almost exactly like the Minetest article and yet, they remain. I believe that a Minetest article on Wikipedia is both pertinent and relevant.

by **xyz** » Sun Sep 09, 2012 09:26

There was small article about Minetest 0.2.something in magazine called Linux Format (http://www.linuxformat.com/archives?issue=152)
Here's it: http://i.imgur.com/FDAhu.png

by **rubenwardy** » Sun Sep 09, 2012 11:58

Qaddosh wrote:I'm doing what I can regarding the AfD. Someday, everyone will have their own personal wikis that they will simply exchange knowledge with other personal wikis and the centralized sites such as Wikipedia will be obsolete.
Mark my words.

The 'John F. Lewis' editor has only been registered on Wikipedia since July 28th of this year. I've been registered since 2005 and have been lurking Wikipedia since 2002.

I, for one, think Minetest is very worthy. There are plenty of articles on Wikipedia that almost exactly like the Minetest article and yet, they remain. I believe that a Minetest article on Wikipedia is both pertinent and relevant.

Remember to sign your posts with ~~~~

by **Qaddosh** » Sun Sep 09, 2012 12:52

Some days Wikipedia seems to be like
"The sky is blue. {citation needed}"
"Water is wet. {citation needed}"
"Fire is hot. {citation needed}"

by **Melkor** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 08:33

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.

Code: Select all: This page has been deleted. The deletion and move log for the page are provided below for reference. 05:32, 16 September 2012 Mr. Stradivarius (talk | contribs) deleted page Minetest (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Minetest)

by **Casimir** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 12:21

Minetest is on Wikipedia!

No more :(

by **rubenwardy** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 13:08

See link in top post. Please do not remake the minetest page

by **Phitherek_** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 13:08

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review - I think you should consider this one.

by **rubenwardy** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 13:10

Phitherek_ wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review - I think you should consider this one.

No. We will make it on my user page then make it again when I say it is ready (ie: enough citations)

List of my mods · by **PilzAdam** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 13:15

There are more sources in the german version: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minetest-c55

by **rubenwardy** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 13:18

PilzAdam wrote:There are more sources in the german version: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minetest-c55

Does not really help, sources for the english wikipedia should be in english

List of my mods · by **PilzAdam** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 13:40

rubenwardy wrote:
PilzAdam wrote:There are more sources in the german version: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minetest-c55

Does not really help, sources for the english wikipedia should be in english

They are.

by **rubenwardy** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 13:50

PilzAdam wrote:
rubenwardy wrote:
PilzAdam wrote:There are more sources in the german version: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minetest-c55

Does not really help, sources for the english wikipedia should be in english

They are.

Add them to english version then

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