NetHackWiki:Next version - Revision history

Umbire the Phantom: note variant-noversion template

2025-01-08T09:57:33Z

note variant-noversion template

Furey: Change example of current version from 3.6.6 to 3.6.7.

2024-06-02T17:01:14Z

Change example of current version from 3.6.6 to 3.6.7.

Actual-nh: /* A note on the tile images */ Of course, it would be nice if one could actually see the "What links here" link in the LHS menu!

2021-05-24T22:12:04Z

‎A note on the tile images: Of course, it would be nice if one could actually see the "What links here" link in the LHS menu!

Phol ende wodan: /* When the next version is released */ more maintenance reminders: update page of new version, update current version redirect

2020-06-28T03:30:16Z

‎When the next version is released: more maintenance reminders: update page of new version, update current version redirect

Phol ende wodan: note what to do with tagging upcoming versions (i.e. don't), and describe steps for updating version templates when a version is released

2020-06-28T03:08:14Z

note what to do with tagging upcoming versions (i.e. don't), and describe steps for updating version templates when a version is released

Phol ende wodan: rewrite to not make the page sound like 3.6.0 has only recently been released; rewrite list and present it as de facto standards that have emerged, not a proposal

2020-06-28T02:39:24Z

rewrite to not make the page sound like 3.6.0 has only recently been released; rewrite list and present it as de facto standards that have emerged, not a proposal

Lysdexia: needs lesser precision

2020-03-03T00:18:33Z

needs lesser precision

Ray Chason: List a forthcoming nethack-360 tag here

2015-12-08T22:27:50Z

List a forthcoming nethack-360 tag here

Hhyloc: replace spork with un

2013-08-27T12:03:21Z

replace spork with un

Bulwersator: /* Article list */ linked metapage is deleted

2013-05-05T20:08:52Z

‎Article list: linked metapage is deleted

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 # Articles pertaining to [[SLASH'EM]] 0.0.7E7 should be tagged with <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:slashem-7E7|slashem-7E7]]}}. SLASH'EM gets its own tag because of the large number of articles relating to it, though it may become unnecessary in the future to track its version because development on it has ceased.
-# Articles pertaining to an actively developed variant of NetHack 3.4.3 other than SLASH'EM may use <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:variant-343|variant-343]]}}. This is ostensibly for tracking articles that need to be updated when that variant incorporates NetHack 3.6; however, no 3.4.3-based variant has done this so far.
+# Articles pertaining to an actively developed variant of NetHack 3.4.3 other than SLASH'EM may use <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:variant-343|variant-343]]}}. This is ostensibly for tracking articles that need to be updated when that variant incorporates NetHack 3.6 or 3.7; however, the only 3.4.3-based variant has done this so far is [[UnNethack]].
 The tag templates display a small icon at the top of the page.

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 The present de facto standard for articles about vanilla NetHack (subject to revision given input from NetHackWiki editors) is the following:
-# If you are editing a page and know that the entire page is up-to-date with the current version of NetHack, apply the template for the current version to the bottom of the page. For example, if the current version is [[NetHack 3.6.6]], use the <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Nethack-366|nethack-366]]}} template, which puts the page into [[:Category:Nethack-366 articles]].
+# If you are editing a page and know that the entire page is up-to-date with the current version of NetHack, apply the template for the current version to the bottom of the page. For example, if the current version is [[NetHack 3.6.7]], use the <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Nethack-367|nethack-367]]}} template, which puts the page into [[:Category:Nethack-367 articles]].
 # Pages that are only known to be updated through some non-current version of NetHack should have the template for that non-current version.
 #* Pages typically fall into this category by a new version being released, rather than through actively being edited that way.

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 ==A note on the tile images==
-Tile images have been revised in the past and the next version may do so again. If this happens, the old tiles ought not be overwritten, as they are still be needed for the version writeups; rather, they ought be moved to the [[List of historic vanilla NetHack tiles|historic tiles page]] and the new tiles uploaded with new names. The ''What links here'' link for the old images can identify articles that need to point to the new tile. Alternatively, the old images can be renamed, the version writeups revised, and the new tiles uploaded using the original name.
+Tile images have been revised in the past and the next version may do so again. If this happens, the old tiles ought not be overwritten, as they are still needed for the version writeups; rather, they ought be moved to the [[List of historic vanilla NetHack tiles|historic tiles page]] and the new tiles uploaded with new names. The ''What links here'' link for the old images can identify articles that need to point to the new tile. Alternatively, the old images can be renamed, the version writeups revised, and the new tiles uploaded using the original name.
 ==See also==
 *[[NetHackWiki:Next version pool]] — Try to guess when the next version is published

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 == When the next version is released ==
-Once the next version is released, editors should take these steps to update the templates:
+Once the next version is released, editors should take these steps:
 # Create an icon for the new version (a 32x32 image containing the version number in black on a white background).
 # Create a template for tagging pages with the new version, which places the new icon at the top of the page. Make sure it adds the page to the appropriate "Category:Nethack-XYZ articles" category.

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 The present de facto standard for articles about vanilla NetHack (subject to revision given input from NetHackWiki editors) is the following:
-# If you are editing a page and know that the entire page is up-to-date with the current version of NetHack, apply the template for the current version to the bottom of the page. For example, if the last released version is [[NetHack 3.6.6]], use the <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:NetHack-366|nethack-366]]}} template, which puts the page into [[:Category:Nethack-366 articles]].
+# If you are editing a page and know that the entire page is up-to-date with the current version of NetHack, apply the template for the current version to the bottom of the page. For example, if the current version is [[NetHack 3.6.6]], use the <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Nethack-366|nethack-366]]}} template, which puts the page into [[:Category:Nethack-366 articles]].
 # Pages that are only known to be updated through some non-current version of NetHack should have the template for that non-current version.
 #* Pages typically fall into this category by a new version being released, rather than through actively being edited that way.
 #* Examples of templates like this are <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Nethack-343|nethack-343]]}} or <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Nethack-361|nethack-361]]}}, which place the page into [[:Category:Nethack-343 articles]] and [[:Category:Nethack-361 articles]] respectively.
 #* Articles in categories for previous versions should be reviewed for anything that is outdated, updated to describe the current version if necessary, and have their tag changed to the current version's tag.
 # Articles that do not need to be revised when the next version is released should be given <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:noversion|noversion]]}}. This tag is for historical articles such as the version writeups, or articles on defunct variants, defunct features, people, external programs, and the like.
 # Articles that are new and not tagged by their author may have <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:unknownversion|unknownversion]]}} applied to them by bots ([[User:ChasonBot|ChasonBot]] will eventually be one) that tag new articles pending review. This is meant to be manually replaced by one of the other tags.
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 <nowiki>{{nethack-360|offset=2}}{{slashem-7E7|offset=1}}{{variant-343}}.  {{noversion}}</nowiki> should never need to be used with another of these tags, but supports offset anyway, so it can be used together with the [[NetHackWiki:Featured articles|featured article]] tag.
-With the articles so tagged, once the next version is released, the relevant tag template can be changed to display a prominent header, and add the article to a category. Once an editor has reviewed the article, and either updated it or determined that its information is still current, one can change the tag template to <nowiki>{{nethack-360}}</nowiki>. This shall go back to showing a small icon, and remove the header from the article and the article from the category.
+== When the next version is released ==
 ==A note on the tile images==

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-We now have the [[NetHack 3.6.0|next version of NetHack]] on our hands. There shall be much rejoicing—and much work to be done on NetHackWiki. Much information on NetHackWiki shall be out of date and need to be updated. NetHackWiki editors have no experience of such an event: nearly every word here was written in the [[NetHack 3.4.3]] era. Toward that end, this project proposes a way to identify articles that need to be updated.
+Following the release of [[NetHack 3.6.0]], there was much rejoicing — and much work to be done on NetHackWiki. Much of the information on NetHackWiki was made out of date and needed to be updated. At the time, NetHackWiki editors had no experience of such an event: nearly every word on the wiki was written in the [[NetHack 3.4.3]] era. Thus, this wiki needed to develop a system of tracking articles that were updated versus articles that had not yet been updated, especially after further versions of 3.6 were subsequently released and it became possible for a page to be updated to a 3.6 version and still out of date. Toward that end, this project proposes a way to identify articles that need to be updated.
-The present proposal (subject to revision given input from NetHackWiki editors) is to tag articles with one of the following templates:
+The present de facto standard for articles about vanilla NetHack (subject to revision given input from NetHackWiki editors) is the following:
-*<nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:nethack-360|nethack-360]]}}, articles that pertain to [[:Category:Nethack-360 articles|NetHack 3.6.0]].
+# If you are editing a page and know that the entire page is up-to-date with the current version of NetHack, apply the template for the current version to the bottom of the page. For example, if the last released version is [[NetHack 3.6.6]], use the <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:NetHack-366|nethack-366]]}} template, which puts the page into [[:Category:Nethack-366 articles]].
-**Remake this template to <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:nethack-36|nethack-36]]}} for all 3.6.x revisions or all revisions after 3.6.1.  Make 3.7 follow the same pattern.
+# Pages that are only known to be updated through some non-current version of NetHack should have the template for that non-current version.
-*<nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:nethack-343|nethack-343]]}}, articles that pertain to [[:Category:Nethack-343 articles|NetHack 3.4.3 and now need to be updated]].
+#* Pages typically fall into this category by a new version being released, rather than through actively being edited that way.
-*<nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:slashem-7E7|slashem-7E7]]}}, articles that pertain to [[SLASH'EM]] 0.0.7E7 and need to be updated when the next version of SLASH'EM is released. SLASH'EM gets its own tag because of the large number of articles relating to it.
+#* Examples of templates like this are <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Nethack-343|nethack-343]]}} or <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Nethack-361|nethack-361]]}}, which place the page into [[:Category:Nethack-343 articles]] and [[:Category:Nethack-361 articles]] respectively.
-*<nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:variant-343|variant-343]]}}, articles that pertain to a variant of NetHack 3.4.3 other than SLASH'EM and need to be updated when that variant incorporates NetHack 3.6.0. This tag is only used for variants such as [[UnNetHack]] that are still under active development.
+#* Articles in categories for previous versions should be reviewed for anything that is outdated, updated to describe the current version if necessary, and have their tag changed to the current version's tag.
-*<nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:noversion|noversion]]}}, articles that do not need to be revised; this tag is for historical articles such as the version writeups, or articles on defunct variants, people, external programs, and the like.
+# Articles that do not need to be revised when the next version is released should be given <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:noversion|noversion]]}}. This tag is for historical articles such as the version writeups, or articles on defunct variants, defunct features, people, external programs, and the like.
-*<nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:unknownversion|unknownversion]]}}, articles that are new and not tagged by its author; this tag is for bots ([[User:ChasonBot|ChasonBot]] will eventually be one) that tag new articles pending review, and is meant to be manually replaced by one of the other tags.
+# Articles that are new and not tagged by their author may have <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:unknownversion|unknownversion]]}} applied to them by bots ([[User:ChasonBot|ChasonBot]] will eventually be one) that tag new articles pending review. This is meant to be manually replaced by one of the other tags.
 The tag templates display a small icon at the top of the page.

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-Someday, and most of us hope it is soon, we'll have the next version of NetHack on our hands. There will be much rejoicing -- and much work to be done on NetHackWiki. Much information on NetHackWiki will be out of date and need to be updated. NetHackWiki editors have no experience of such an event: every word here was written in the [[NetHack 3.4.3]] era. Toward that end, this project proposes a way to identify articles that will need to be updated.
+We now have the [[NetHack 3.6.0|next version of NetHack]] on our hands. There will be much rejoicing -- and much work to be done on NetHackWiki. Much information on NetHackWiki will be out of date and need to be updated. NetHackWiki editors have no experience of such an event: nearly every word here was written in the [[NetHack 3.4.3]] era. Toward that end, this project proposes a way to identify articles that will need to be updated.
 The present proposal (subject to revision given input from NetHackWiki editors) is to tag articles with one of the following templates:
-* <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:nethack-343|nethack-343]]}} -- articles that pertain to [[:Category:Nethack-343 articles|NetHack 3.4.3 and will need to be updated]] when the next version is released.
+* <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:nethack-360|nethack-360]]}} -- articles that pertain to [[:Category:Nethack-360 articles|NetHack 3.6.0]].
 * <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:slashem-7E7|slashem-7E7]]}} -- articles that pertain to [[SLASH'EM]] 0.0.7E7 and will need to be updated when the next version of SLASH'EM is released. SLASH'EM gets its own tag because of the large number of articles relating to it.
-* <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:variant-343|variant-343]]}} -- articles that pertain to a variant of NetHack 3.4.3 other than SLASH'EM and will need to be updated when that variant incorporates the next version of NetHack. This tag should only be used for variants such as [[UnNetHack]] that are still under active development.
+* <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:variant-343|variant-343]]}} -- articles that pertain to a variant of NetHack 3.4.3 other than SLASH'EM and will need to be updated when that variant incorporates NetHack 3.6.0. This tag should only be used for variants such as [[UnNetHack]] that are still under active development.
 * <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:noversion|noversion]]}} -- articles that will not need to be revised; this tag is for historical articles such as the version writeups, or articles on defunct variants, people, external programs, and the like.
 * <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:unknownversion|unknownversion]]}} -- articles that are new and not tagged by its author; this tag is for bots ([[User:ChasonBot|ChasonBot]] will eventually be one) that tag new articles pending review, and is meant to be manually replaced by one of the other tags.
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 If multiple tags appear on a single article, they can be separated using an "offset" parameter like this:
-<nowiki>{{nethack-343|offset=2}}{{slashem-7E7|offset=1}}{{variant-343}}.  {{noversion}}</nowiki> should never need to be used with another of these tags, but supports offset anyway, so it can be used together with the [[NetHackWiki:Featured articles|featured article]] tag.
+<nowiki>{{nethack-360|offset=2}}{{slashem-7E7|offset=1}}{{variant-343}}.  {{noversion}}</nowiki> should never need to be used with another of these tags, but supports offset anyway, so it can be used together with the [[NetHackWiki:Featured articles|featured article]] tag.
-With the articles so tagged, once the next version is released, the relevant tag template can be changed to display a prominent header, and add the article to a category. Once an editor has reviewed the article, and either updated it or determined that its information is still current, s/he can change the tag template, say, to <nowiki>{{nethack-350}}</nowiki>. This would go back to showing a small icon, and remove the header from the article and the article from the category.
+With the articles so tagged, once the next version is released, the relevant tag template can be changed to display a prominent header, and add the article to a category. Once an editor has reviewed the article, and either updated it or determined that its information is still current, s/he can change the tag template to <nowiki>{{nethack-360}}</nowiki>. This will go back to showing a small icon, and remove the header from the article and the article from the category.
 == A note on the tile images ==

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	With the articles so tagged, once the next version is released, the relevant tag template can be changed to display a prominent header, and add the article to a category. Once an editor has reviewed the article, and either updated it or determined that its information is still current, s/he can change the tag template, say, to <nowiki>{{nethack-350}}</nowiki>. This would go back to showing a small icon, and remove the header from the article and the article from the category.		With the articles so tagged, once the next version is released, the relevant tag template can be changed to display a prominent header, and add the article to a category. Once an editor has reviewed the article, and either updated it or determined that its information is still current, s/he can change the tag template, say, to <nowiki>{{nethack-350}}</nowiki>. This would go back to showing a small icon, and remove the header from the article and the article from the category.
−
−	~~== Article list ==~~
−	[[NetHackWiki:Next version/Article list\|This list]] gives all the main namespace articles that are not redirects as of the time of its creation (23 April 2008); the last-created article on the list is [[chroot jail]]. Once all articles are sorted into one of the categories listed above, a bot could be invoked to add the tags.

	== A note on the tile images ==		== A note on the tile images ==