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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

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Development Wikipedia Page

Talk to us in #minetest on irc.

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

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.

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

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.

Awesome! this might make Minetest a bit more popular.

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.

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?

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)

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

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.

finally!

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?

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)

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

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

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"

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.

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

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 ~~~~

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

Minetest is on Wikipedia!

No more :(

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

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

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)

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

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

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.

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