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ThoseWhoWanderAreNotLost hello I was wondering on how to join the dev wiki community 3:56 KockaAdmiralac What do you mean by "join" 3:56 ThoseWhoWanderAreNotLost like, be a coder 3:56 KockaAdmiralac Hmm 3:57 ThoseWhoWanderAreNotLost Not necessarily sure about actually doing it, I was just curious Though I might 3:57 KockaAdmiralac If you wanted to publish content to Dev you should probably first know CSS, JavaScript or Lua, but publishing scripts, stylesheets and modules isn't the only way to contribute to Dev I guess 3:58 ThoseWhoWanderAreNotLost oh ok what are the other ways you speak of 3:58 KockaAdmiralac Hmm Well certain ways of contributing to any wiki apply to Dev as well Such as typo fixing and stuff 3:59 ThoseWhoWanderAreNotLost ok 3:59 KockaAdmiralac Then there are also translations of content and documentation w:c:dev:Project:I18n But for English-only users that's probably not an option 4:00 ThoseWhoWanderAreNotLost Is hindi a largely used language on fandom/wikia 4:00 KockaAdmiralac It doesn't have to be in order to publish translations for it to Dev :P 4:01 ThoseWhoWanderAreNotLost oh ok welp I just gave away my ethnicity oh well 4:01 KockaAdmiralac It's just preferable if you're a native speaker but higher levels of language knowledge may work too 4:01 ThoseWhoWanderAreNotLost mK 4:02 KockaAdmiralac Though, I'm not seeing Hindi listed in untranslated scripts listing so I'm going to add it there 4:03 ThoseWhoWanderAreNotLost One main question I had was how code is "published" 4:03 KockaAdmiralac Alright, so https://dev.wikia.com/wiki/Dev_Wiki:I18n?uselang=hi#Reports should be listing scripts and documentation that aren't translated to Hindi Hmm 4:04 ThoseWhoWanderAreNotLost oh wow that's a lot 4:04 KockaAdmiralac If it's a script or a stylesheet, you create a MediaWiki:Pagename.js/css page for it (But first you should probably be reading w:c:dev:DEV:CC if you want to contribute scripts or stylesheets) (and w:c:dev:DEV:P regardless of the contribution method) Anyways 4:05 ThoseWhoWanderAreNotLost So once you click "Publish" after editing, then you can just automatically use it on a wiki Or does it have to be approved or anything 4:05 KockaAdmiralac If it's a stylesheet, yes If it's a script, it has to be approved 4:05 ThoseWhoWanderAreNotLost ok then 4:05 KockaAdmiralac But the thing with content on Dev is that it must follow certain guidelines and should be documented in the article namespace So scripts that are only useful for a single wiki or scripts that 99% copy another script and just modify a single functionality aren't usually the type of content that should be published to Dev 4:07 ThoseWhoWanderAreNotLost So it has to be wikia-wide 4:07 KockaAdmiralac And very short stylesheets that sometimes can't be imported should usually go to w:c:dev:CSS Cookbook The content published to Dev should be useful to several wikis, yeah 4:08 ThoseWhoWanderAreNotLost So how would you be able to test a script before publishing? Or do you just test it on a wiki? 4:08 KockaAdmiralac You usually don't test scripts by posting them on your personal JS pages 4:08 ThoseWhoWanderAreNotLost then... 4:09 KockaAdmiralac Most script publishers on Dev test their scripts through their JavaScript console of their browser CTRL+SHIFT+I on Chrome 4:09 ThoseWhoWanderAreNotLost Just curious, but *can* you test it on a wiki? 4:09 KockaAdmiralac Yes 4:09 ThoseWhoWanderAreNotLost makes sense 4:09 KockaAdmiralac Scripts on Dev are still only scripts 4:10 ThoseWhoWanderAreNotLost yeah So say for something like this: https://dev.wikia.com/wiki/IsTyping Where does the installation code come from? 4:12 KockaAdmiralac The installation is just an autogenerated importArticles statement It lets users add that into their JS and then it imports the actual script 4:12 ThoseWhoWanderAreNotLost oh so it's just the same format ? 4:13 KockaAdmiralac Because if users were copy-pasting the script into their JS updating that script would be a pain So they put the importArticles({...}); statement into their JS and it loads w:c:dev:MediaWiki:IsTyping.js If that makes sense 4:15 ThoseWhoWanderAreNotLost So first you write a code page, then you make the info page on it? 4:15 KockaAdmiralac Yeah 4:16 ThoseWhoWanderAreNotLost So when you make the info page it has to follow a certain format 4:17 KockaAdmiralac It _should_ follow a certain format w:c:dev:DEV:CC#Documentation best practice 4:18 ThoseWhoWanderAreNotLost ah ok So you need to go to an admin for approval? Or is there someone else to go to? Like, approval of a script