Help:Adding a game

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Rules

If you want to add a game, you will follow these guidelines:

• Game pages all start with the category and then the game info table described below.
• Pages will be written in plain and understandable english. Use a spellchecker if you have problems with spelling.
• Discussions will not take place on the wiki page. The discussion tab is there for a reason.
• You will not attempt to damage this wiki or server in any way.

Break any of the above rules and risk losing write permission on this wiki.

General Pointers

Some other general pointers I would appreciate you take into account when creating/editing wiki articles:

Categories

There are two categories a game must be in. [[Category:Games]] should be present first in order to make the page appear on the game index. Then you will need to choose an additional category in order to make it appear in the working, partially-working, or non-working categories. The names for these categories are;

• [[Category:Working]]
• [[Category:Partially-working]]
• [[Category:Not-working]]

Choose one according to whether your game works or not.

If a game is officially supported by Transgaming, be sure to add [[Category:Supported]].

Also, if a game has a playable demo that is known to work, please add [[Category:Has_Working_Demo]] to the game's page.

I recommend taking a look at the wiki source for Thief: The Dark Project as an example for your game page. (Just hit the edit button.)

Structured text

Please wrap commands and other things you need to type in <kbd></kbd> tags, computer output in <samp></samp>, <code></code> for configuration files and source code and <var></var> for variables such as program syntaxes and file locations. (Why?)

Valid XHTML/CSS

It would also be nice if you would try to keep your wiki pages valid XHTML. To check if they are, feed your page to this HTML validator. (Opera users press CTRL + ALT + V) Generally, if you use wikicode and don't change any rows of the table the page will be valid XHTML.

To add a game

First change the url to http://cedegawiki.sweetleafstudios.com/wiki/your game name the wiki will then manipulate the url so spaces are turned into underscores, etc. Click on the edit tab and start writing. Make sure that the page contains the following things;

• It has to have at least two categories. (Three if the game is supported.) [[Category:Games]] and [[Category:Supported/Working/Partially-Working/Not-working]] which you will edit to suit the game's state. These are required because otherwise the game does not show up in the list. Read more about categories.

• The page will contain the game info table in full. So don't remove rows from the table. If a game does not have a patch or a demo. Just put a dash(-) in the info field, if you don't know the version number of a game, just keep it at 1.0.

• An issues section. This section will describe all possible issues and you will write it like this:

==Issues==
* issue 1
* issue 2
* etc.

if a game doesn't have issues, write this:

==Issues==
* None known

Game info table

Write the categories and game info table at the top.(This template does not do this to keep the evil side-scrollbar at bay.)

[[Category:Games]] [[Category:Supported/Working/Partially-working/Not-working]]
[[Category:Has_Working_Demo]]

==Game Info==
<table summary="Game Info">
<tbody>
	<tr>
		<td>Game version</td>
		<td>1.0</td>
	</tr> 
	<tr>
		<td>Installer</td> 
		<td>Works, no known problems</td> 
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td>Game</td>
		<td>Works, no known problems</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td>Patch</td>
		<td>Have not tried</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td>Download patch</td>
		<td>link goes here</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td>Demo works</td>
		<td>unknown</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td>Download demo</td>
		<td>link goes here</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td>Requires no-cd patch</td>
		<td>Yes</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td>Multiplayer works</td>
		<td>unknown</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td>Works with Cedega version(s)</td>
		<td>{{best|txt=4.2.1}}, 4.1.1, 3.3.2, 3.0 (please fill in)</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td>Tested with Cedega version(s)</td>
		<td>4.2.1, 4.1.1, 3.3.2, 3.0 (please fill in)</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td>Supported by TransGaming</td>
		<td>No</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td>URLs</td>
		<td>-</td>
	</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

==Issues==
* Issue 1
* Issue 2
* Etc.

Templates

Keyboard-look

If you ever need to indicate keyboard shortcuts, you can use some template keys or define your own.

Currently these keys are predefined;

CTRL ALT TAB ESC ENTER SPACE MY KEY

{{key:CTRL} }{{key:ALT}} {{key:TAB}} {{key:ESC}} 
 {{key:ENTER}} {{key:SPACE}} {{key|txt=MY KEY}}

This will make the keys stand out and appear as the keys on your keyboard.

Best working version

A game can have several working versions but there might be a regression in the different Cedega versions making a game work better when using an older or newer version of Cedega. You can mark this game in the "Works with Cedega version(s)" row of the Game info table

For example, when Cedega 4.1.1 works best, type {{best|txt=4.1.1}} The version will then show up as 4.1.1 (best)

Red text

Use this when you need to mark something that is extremely important.

Red Text

{{red|txt=Red Text}}

Native versions

If a game has a native Linux version, please add one of the following two templates to the game, depending on if the native version is still available: (Please ignore the notes in this section, they are part of the templates.)

This game has a native client and can be played on Linux without Cedega.
[ Get the Linux client!]

{{native-client|link=http//link.to.native.version.com}}

This game has a native client but is discontinued and is no longer available.
You might try eBay or other second-hand stores.

{{native-client-oop}}

ScummVM

If a game works in ScummVM (it usually works better than it does with Cedega.) please us this template. (Please ignore the notes in this section, they are part of the template.)

{{ScummVM}}

Cleanup templates

These templates indicate that something needs to be done or that there is something important to note about the information in the article.

Game needs testing

{{cleanup:needs-testing}}

Article contains info about the demo only

{{cleanup:demo-only}}

Demo needs to be tested

{{cleanup:demo-needs-testing}}

Multiplayer mode needs to be tested

{{cleanup:multiplayer-needs-testing}}