User talk:Vikrant P

Welcome to StrategyWiki!

Hello Vikrant P! Welcome to StrategyWiki. Thank you for your contributions. If you have any questions, just contact a sysop through their talk page or post on the staff lounge, and they'd be happy to help. If you need help editing, check the editing article or the StrategyWiki Guide. If you have a question about the content on this wiki, you can check out our staff lounge page. If you want to ask questions or hang out in IRC, we're usually around. On the other hand, if you have ideas for StrategyWiki, bring them up on the community portal talk page. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field as this helps to document all of your hard work. Feel free to delete this message from your talk page if you like, or keep it for reference. Happy editing! -- DrBob (Talk) 05:56, 12 February 2007 (CST)

Editing

You've done some great work on expanding the Pokémon guides so far Vikrant, but could you please pay attention to the cleanup I'm doing to your pages? If you take a look at this diff, you'll see you keep missing out a few important parts of a page on StrategyWiki, such as the {{Header Nav}}, which should be at the top of all pages. If you could try to include these things in future, I'd be very grateful. Thanks, and keep editing! --DrBob (Talk) 04:16, 13 February 2007 (CST)

Great work! The guide's really coming along nicely now. :-) --DrBob (Talk) 07:17, 16 February 2007 (CST)

Uploading files

I don't understand what kind of help you are asking for. There is an "Upload files" link on the left hand side of every page. All you have to do is click it and you are taken to the "Upload file" page. Then you Browse for the file you are interested in uploading, rename it if the name that appears is not sufficient, and provide a comment that describes the image so that people know what game the image came from, and provide at least one category for the image. You can find out all of the available categories by clicking on the "image categories" link on the "Upload file" page. If there's anything more you need clarification on, go ahead and leave the question on your talk page, we'll see it. Procyon 14:15, 15 February 2007 (CST)

Uploading files

I don't know what Source filename is. Vikrant P

You click the "Browse" button to the right of that field, and select the file you want to upload from your computer. That fills in the source filename field with the right path and filename automatically. --DrBob (Talk) 05:00, 16 February 2007 (CST)

Your question doesn't make sense. You provide the source file, so the source filename is whatever the name of the file you wish to upload is. If you have a picture on your harddrive called PokemonImage.jpg, then you would select that when you click the Browse button, and upload it to StrategyWiki. We can't tell you what the source filename is, because you're the one supplying it to StrategyWiki, not us. Procyon 09:54, 16 February 2007 (CST)

If you go to an image page like Image:Antarctic Adventure COL box.jpg, there is an image at the centre of the page. png and jpg are what tell what type of file it is. To upload an image, the file has to be saved on your computer already. Click the upload file button, click browse beside source filename, and find the file on your computer. It will automatically fill in the destination filename for you. In the description, add some info about the file, and add some image categories. If you are just trying it out, just add any category, but later you will have to follow the guidelines. For further info, you might want to look at wikipedia:Filename extension, but it shouldn't be necessary. -- Prod (Talk) 11:58, 16 February 2007 (CST)

Image files have .jpg and .png extentions, for example has a .png extension. See wikipedia:JPG and wikipedia:PNG. -- Prod (Talk) 12:33, 16 February 2007 (CST)

Hi Vikrant. I understand that you are having trouble understanding how to upload files, but the questions that you are asking have more to do with a basic understanding of Windows and/or hard drive file storage. Every file on your hard drive typically has a three letter extension after a period. This extension informs you of what type of information is stored in the file. So if you see .txt, it's a text file. If you see .bmp, it's a bitmap image. .jpg, .gif, and .png are all common forms of images that are compressed. (Some windows users have a setting that hides extensions that windows knows about, so you may not be able to see the extension until you turn this setting off.)

But the truth is, none of this information is necessary for you to know if you want to upload a file for use on StrategyWiki. All you need to know is where the file exists on your hard drive so that you can tell the StrategyWiki upload page where to grab the file from. This will most likely be an image that you downloaded off of another website, or perhaps one that you edited or created yourself. Beyond the answers provided for you here, there is really nothing else we can do to help you except to advise that you find some websites that can teach you about basic Windows file management and how to browse through your hard drive. Good luck! Procyon 12:34, 16 February 2007 (CST)

Congrats!

You got your first picture up! Nice job, it looks great. Procyon 12:58, 16 February 2007 (CST) Nice, Procyon!

Good work :). Just try to be careful when naming the files also.

From StrategyWiki:Images

An appropriate name is one which begins with the initialised version of the game title and an underscore (e.g. Counter-Strike: Source images all begin with "css_") then something which details the content of the image itself very briefly. Names should not detail where or how the image is going to be used; merely what's in it. Numbered names for use in series of screenshots of a level are acceptable (e.g. "css_level_name01"), but this is the only use-case where not describing the contents of the image is acceptable.

Happy editing! -- Prod (Talk) 13:05, 16 February 2007 (CST)

Pokemon maps

If you're looking for a good source for maps, you might want to consider using vgmaps instead (let it load in completely). Their maps are a lot cleaner than the ones you seem to be using. Just a suggestion. Also, be aware of the size of the maps when they appear on the page. In order to use that size parameter (the 211px that you used) you need to use thumb, not frame since the frame parameter ignores the size request. Procyon 13:12, 16 February 2007 (CST)