User talk:Sailor Sam

Welcome!
Welcome to Wikibooks, Sailor Sam!

 First steps tutorial Wikibooks is for collaborative development of free textbooks.

You do not need technical skills to contribute. You can easily change most books. Please introduce yourself, and let us know what interests you.

If you already contribute at other Wikimedia projects, our Wikimedia Orientation should quickly get you started. (Would you like to provide feedback on this message?)

  Getting help   Made a mistake?   Goodies, tips and tricks Thanks, --ЗAНИA talk 23:15, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Read the Using Wikibooks book for a friendly introduction to the project, or our help pages for more information.
 * You can get friendly help from the community in the user assistance room or our IRC channel.
 * Upload freely licensed files to Wikimedia Commons. You may request permission to upload fair use files locally. Please include author and source information and a non-free use rationale for non-free files.
 * You can restore a previously saved version.
 * Pages should follow the  naming convention.
 * Need to rename a page? Use the move tab (is available once your account is 4 days old - until then, ask for help).
 * To request a page be deleted, add to the top of the page.
 * Was a page you made deleted? Please read the deletion policy, and check the deletion log to find out why. Also check the RFD archives if applicable. You can request undeletion at WB:RFU, or ask the administrator who deleted the page.
 * Please fill in the edit summary and preview your edits before saving.
 * Sign your name on discussion pages by typing &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126;
 * User scripts can make many tasks easier. Look at the Gadgets tab of my preferences; check off the boxes for the scripts you want, and hit save!

Thanks for your work on Trainz
re: good start! Thanks for the page creation, it was needed. I've taken a while to get back to working herein trying to fixup the N3V Trainz wiki. // Fra nkB 23:54, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

Nice to see you back on board, Sailor!
Thanks for the edit, feel free to keep at it! I'm involved in way too many other things right now to move fast on this until fall. I see you figured out the one linking template TG or TN, iirc). TBS will link and display most TBS section paras; TR parses to, containers and tags (iirc). N3V (or TOL) links directly to the TrainzOnline pages... the first arg needs to have the full url, the second the display form. Similarly, forms an neat link to any web site. (No XXX sites, please! ) Most of the templates take a parameter '|p=some text' as an overide parameter should you not like the phrasing, for some add-on suffixes tag, container, etc. Most just need a second active argument (as opposed to TR's class argument or TG and TN section Nav-tto parameters) to generate a similar 'pretty' output. Note also all our templates incorporate a CAPS convention, which is an UNCONVENTION to typical wiki usage, meaning ours are being formed by capital letters and most wiki-style templates stay lowercase.

There is a significant difference between and  for example... both are in use in this message. The templates not only make linking here easier, but are purpose-built to allow us to take pages&mdash;particularly envisioning tutorials and route tech manuals&mdash;to the Trainz Wiki with minimum fuss. (Over there, assuming compatible consistent page names, the analogous template will route as well to the correct namespace or page titles.)

There have been some revisions and needs be some updating but Project gives a more in depth sketch of these tools, as well as others. category:Trainz Templates has sub-categories grouping by function those I didn't mention here. A category tree is well established now, including administrative and maintenance branches with hidden categories, and there is a set of image auto-categorizing templates and category scheme tested and in place on the Wikimedia commons. If you get the itch to upload screenshots, you'll want to thoroughly understand this templates options and bookmark it. In the event, when uploading I generally focus mainly on the text explanation the Upload Wizard wants, and Select the CC-by-SA and by Self parameters, then tack in the Trainz_Image category. After uploading edit to add the parameters to the Trainz Image template to adjust the licensing and category properly or use one of the listed related templates there as an amendment to eliminate a double licensing mention. If we get some experience and some others expanding the Wikibook, I can climb the political ladder and see if our license template can be added to the Wizard code. Until we have some volume, it's not worth the talk-talk time it would take in advance. Gotta run // Frank Fra nkB 09:39, 19 August 2014 (UTC)