The 'Shroom:Issue XLV/Pipe Plaza
Director’s Notes
Super Mario Bros. (talk)
Thanks to MG1 for directing the Pipe Plaza this issue. a!!!
Marioguy1 (talk)
Hey guys! Pipe Plaza is here again! This is the Pipe Plaza’s anniversary! So everyone freak out and have a party and stuff because the Pipe Plaza is so awesome that it has survived a whole twelve issues. Other than that, we still have spots open and need writers to fill them.
Tips of the Month
FunkyK38 (talk)
Tip of the Month: You're only allowed 4 Personal Images to use on your page or signature, so make sure you don't go over that. It's generally frowned upon to have more than 4, and a sysop will be quick to tell you to delete as many as you're over their limit.
Tucayo (talk)
Hello readers! Tucayo here, with Tip of the Month. Perhaps you remember that I was the first writer this section had (it was known as Maintenance at that time), well, I am back as part of the surprise I commented about on the Sub Director Notes.
For this issue, I have various tips for when you don’t know how you can help the wiki:
- First of all, click Random Page, and when you are there, there are many things you can do to improve the article
- Add categories. Go to the bottom of the page, and see, can the article subject fit in another category? If so, add the category! Let’s say I come upon Magical Typewriter, and it is categorized under items. Since it is also an object, I could go and add [[Category:Objects]] to it. But please. Don’t create stupid categories just for the sake of categorizing.
- Images alignment. Sometimes we see articles with too many images on one side, and the text ends, and the images go on. To avoid that, it is better to alternate images (left, right, left, right, left [Congratulations if you understood the hidden reference]). Let’s say, we come upon this article. The images there end way after the text, so what we would do is, we go to one image, let’s say [[Image:Joint Tower.png|thumb|The '''Joint Tower''']], and we add [[Image:Joint Tower.png|thumb|left|The '''Joint Tower''']] so it is aligned to the left, and it looks beautiful like this.
- Next, if we come upon an article that is from other series (these are normally the SSB articles), like Ridley, we can add interwiki links to NIWA wikis. For example, we can link “Metroid” and “Space Pirates” to our partner wiki MetroidWiki. How to do this? It’s simple, just link this way: [[:metroidwiki:Space Pirates|Space Pirates]] and it will take you to the desired wiki, which covers the subject more detailed. Also, follow the Link Once and Only Once rule, and, if we have an article on the subject (Planet Zebes), link to us, and then, in the other article, link to the other wiki. Here is a list of the wikis you can link to (substitute the name in the link coding):
- Bulbapedia
- ZeldaWiki
- WiKirby
- MetroidWiki
- WarsWiki
- LylatWiki
- Pikipedia
- StrategyWiki
- DKWiki
- ACWiki
- SmashWiki
- WikiBound
- GoldenSun
- To compliment the interwiki linking, also add external links, such as the game page, game footage, etc. An example can be seen here.
- Add infoboxes and images. Infoboxes are a neat and organized way of summarizing an article. You can add infoboxes to many articles, and there is a type of infobox for most articles (full list). Images are too needed in most articles, I’ll take an article that needs both things. For example, Office of Film and Literature Classification, it is a company, so we use the {{Company-infobox}} template. We can copy the coding, and fill it ourselves, for example:
{{company-infobox |logo=OFLC.png |width=250px |founded=1970 |firstgame= |lastgame= |president=Robert McClelland }}
- For the image, we can search any image in Google, and then upload it. Be sure to add the right license tag to it (logo for this one). And just add the image name, and extension, no [[File:For the info we don’t know, we can use good old Wikipedia.
- In width add something in between 200px and 300px, preferably 250px.
If there is anything it doesn’t fit here, we can leave it blank, in this case, first and last game can’t be filled.
And that is all we’ve got for this month’s tips! I hope you found them useful.
Featured (Marioguy1 (talk))
Hola everybody! It’s time for Featured! Now, I still don’t like those stupid links so I’m going to yell at 22 to fix them later today...wait...he’s the EiC?...nvm...
But I am going to get an admin to fix all those links sometime in the near future (hopefully) so don’t worry. Anyways,
Forum Update (Ralphfan (talk))
News:
- Drseaweed spammed the forums on the 7th. He made 26 posts.
- WigglerWhoopin'Warrior135 is on hiatus.
- Master Crash has returned.
Name changes:
- BBGArmy: BBGArmy --> KoopaTroop
- Becquerel: Becquerel --> Becsprite
- BluePikminKong397: U.S. Congress --> Galaxy Man
- DogFreak: DogFreak --> Home-Dawg
- DyegoHalliwell IceMario12: DyegoHalliwell_IceMario --> Ice_Halliwell012
- Gamefreak75: Yin-Yarn --> Gamefreak75
- Lily x: Link_Dudette --> Legend of Lily
- Mason: Lrrr --> Silly Mason
- Master Crash: Prune Juice Lord --> Macaroni Bomb Vest
- MrConcreteDonkey: E-102 γ --> MrConcreteDonkey
- MST3K: Deadpool --> クッパJr.
- New Super Mario: Super Moogle --> Mugly --> New Snowman Mario
- Rocker64: Rocker64 --> Hawk Eye
- Scorpion999: Scorpion999 --> Advisor Ragnarok --> The Necromancer --> Ebirah
- SolarBlaze: Blaze the Cat --> Mystical Ninja
- SpinyMaster347: Rtas' Vadum --> Umpire Raccoon
- Tucayo: Homely Potato --> Tucayo
- Villain11: Villain11 --> Villain
- YamiHoshi: YamiHoshi.nl --> ヤミホシ
Mafia Games:
- The Sonictians won NSM's Sonic Mafia.
- The Mafia, led by BPK, won MrConcreteDonkey's Halloween Mafia.
- The Mafia, led by Ninji, won Xzealio's XzMafia.
- MBV more or less won Shyguy27's Broken Mafia.
- The Space Pirates, led by MG1, won Gamefreak75's Metroid Mafia.
- The Mafia, led by Gamefreak75, won The 'Shroom Mafia!
Mario Calendar (No attribution)
Hey guys! WigglerWhoopinWarrior couldn’t send in his section so in its place you get a link!
NIWA News (RAP (talk))
RAP’s section is coming late and he has a very big change to talk about so make sure you check back in sometime soon Cheesy
