Building packs on the WIKI

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Notice from Admin

July 11th, 2017

 

The Pack structure was never finished on the wiki and will be discontinued with the release of STEP 3.0. Packs will be moving to Mod Picker at that time and the Pack structure on the wiki will be stripped away. It is currently unknown what will happen to the current pack pages. This information can not be known until develop starts in that area.

 

Community member are, therefore, highly discouraged from using the Pack system on the wiki. The links on the wiki have been hidden, though the Pack form remains in place for current packs authors.

 

For those of you wanting to build a guide that isn't an official Pack, please use your personal user space on the wiki.

This user space is found at: wiki.step-project.com/User:Username

For example: https://wiki.step-project.com/User:TechAngel85

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Getting Started

To begin creating a Pack and testing out the alpha implementation of the Pack-Guide-Creation-Engine (powered by Semantic Mediawiki), navigate to:
LINK REMOVED by Admin

Simply enter the name of your Pack (make it short and sweet for easier reference ... and please do not prefix with "STEP") and begin using the tool. Note that any mods to be included within any Pack must also be on the wiki. Many are already, but if not, please use the mod Form to create the mod page of interest:
https://wiki.step-project.com/Form:Mod

We aren't providing much instruction at this point, because we'd like people to mess around and learn how the wiki works in general.

Post in this forum for help if you get stuck!

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OP:

This doesn't seem to be working for me, I'm having the issue where the popup window is really small.  Did that fix not get ported over from the Devwiki?

I'm making my queries here in lieu of a specific thread section being formed to address "Pack" support as suggested by Z.

!) I would like to change the Page title in line with the other Pack headings, more specifically from "STEP Weather Pack WIP" to Pack: Weather - this may not be final as there is a lighting element to this but there must be an easy way to edit that short of deleting the page and starting again.

2) I'm not sure how to add the mod lists. I can see the button but then nothing useful happens. This maybe because the facility to do this isn't active on these pages as yet but the tables do appear in the test pages for packs.

Any help were would be splendid.

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[Nearox]

That would be strange. At anyrate' date=' just regular html should do the job.[/quote']

What would be strange about more font sizes? Here at the forums you can choose from 6 font sizes while the wiki has 3. Also more font options generally. Dont know whats strange about asking for the possibility.

[stoppingby4now]

Recommendations and specific instructions have been STEP specific, but with the newer concept of packs, we need a modified infrastructure for supporting them.

 

Mod pages should be agnostic, a reference point for installation. Specific instructions centered around packs need to be pack specific, and that has all ways been the goal. That needs to be the paradigm that STEP follows as well.

[Kelmych]

The best solution is to have ancillary mod pages that are associated with specific Packs.

 

EDIT: dev note added to the Dictionary page (scroll down on the Mods tab). Anyone fel free to add any additional wanted features to the notes on this wiki page under the appropriate tab.

That's fine as an additional display of mod data, but I feel that having all the information about a mod, including all the pack-related information, displayed in a single page is even  more important (as I mention in the comment I added on the Data Dictionary page)