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[TinyWiking]

Greetings everyone!
With the upcoming release of Europa Universalis IV: Cossacks, Meneth, our eminent Wiki manager, will be running a contest with some awesome prizes!

For complete rules head on over to the Wiki and read all you need to know to participate. Oh, and best of all, you don't need to create a new account, you use your Paradox account credentials to contribute!

If there are questions related to the contest please use this thread instead of creating new ones.

 

[TinyWiking]

you missed a comma between cossacks and meneth

That was just a test to see if anyone reads it... . Sorted now hehe.

 

[Meneth]

If anyone has any questions about the contest, feel free to ask me here, by PM, or on my talk page on the wiki.

 

[Meneth]

Do all the Wiki's apply or just the EUIV one?

EU4 only.

 

[Meneth]

The contest graphic is a bit misleading, in that case.

The EU4 Wiki logo is shown on the left, and the singular "wiki" is consistently used.

 

[Meneth]

The contest has now started!
Best of luck to everyone participating.

 

[Meneth]

Rewarding the community work, I like it. But why not make something similar for modders? There are a lot of modders out there and some of them (like authors of M&T and VeF) have put tons of hours into their mods. It would be nice if those things could be rewarded too.

A separate thread would probably make more sense.
Though in this contest there's a lot of tickets dedicated to creating modding pages.

 

[Meneth]

In currently adding articles to the wiki yet for mechanics such as revanchism and permanent claims which have been granted full pages there is lots of content in the writing yet it ends up only a paragraph or so long. Would it be better to merge these with other pages to make it seem better.

They'll be merged if that seems warranted, yes.

 

[Meneth]

I am new to wiki editing. What is the way, etiquette-wise, to flag an article i am in the process of editing? Do i put it on the talk page?

Not trying to stake a claim or anything, but id want to know if someone else was busy working so i dont waste my time or accidentally overwrite something they did.

Accidentally overwriting something is pretty much impossible; the wiki will warn you if the page has been edited since you started editing it.
So there's no real need to flag pages. If you're unlucky you'll just have to combine the new stuff with what you've written. Pretty rare for that to happen though.

 

[Meneth]

I am unable to log onto the wiki. When I click the logon button it redirects me to the forum, whre I am logged in, but when I go back to the wiki it does not recognise me.

Do you get an error message or similar?
The first time you log in you should be taken to a page named "AccountSetup" where you have to click OK (or something like that) in order for a wiki account to be created.

 

[Meneth]

I'm trying to login to the wiki but I get this when I click Login/Create Account:

""Fatal error: Call to undefined function getforumusername() in /var/www/shared/extensions/PDXAuth/AccountSetup.php on line 36""

I've tried different browsers but the same thing remains. I can login just fine on the forums/main site.

Thanks for reporting.
Creating new accounts should work once more now. It broke when the wikis were updated to the latest version of MediaWiki.