Acting on a recent suggestion, I have set up a "wiki" at this site. A wiki (apparently "wiki" is Hawaiian for "quick) is a quick way of setting up web pages.
Most pages can be edited or added-to by anybody, in a sort-of free-format documentation exercise.
The intention of this wiki is to allow MUSHclient users to self-document MUSHclient (and other related topics like the Area Editor, MUD games in general and so on).
You could, for instance, add tips to a "scripting tips" page, such as example "stat rollers", or various ways of using triggers or aliases to achieve certain effects.
The wiki can be found at http://www.gammon.com.au/wiki/index.php/HomePage
If you know your topic name (eg. AddTrigger) you can replace the last word (HomePage) with it to go direct to that page (note the capitalisation is important here).
To save typing you should also be able to get to it from http://www.mushclient.com/wiki/
Initial content
To kick of the wiki, I have generated a page for each of the 257 scripting functions. This is currently the same as in the Help file, but you can edit them and add your own comments if you like.
A nice side-effect of this is that any page that refers to a script function (eg. AddAlias, or ColourNote) will automatically generate a hyperlink to the relevant page, providing you capitalise it correctly.
Adding content
The wiki pages describe how to add things, but basically you edit an existing page, and add your own words. There are pages describing the mark-up, which is very simple, eg. *bold* for bold words, _italic_ for italics. If you add a "wiki-word" (a word with more than one capital letter LikeThisWord) then the wiki system automatically generates a hyperlink to that topic. If the topic does not exist then a question-mark will appear next to the word when the page is redisplayed. Just click on it to create the new page. If you need to hyperlink to words that do not have multiple capitals (eg. Note) then just put them into square brackets (eg. [Note]).
Other features
You can search, find recently-amended pages, find the changes that have been made to a particular page, and more.
Netiquette
Please do not just delete opinions or techniques you disagree with, it is preferable to add your own method, with a (non-insulting) description of why your method may be better in some cases. It is better for people browsing the wiki to have a range of choices, or different techniques described, rather than just the most recent one.
If anyone is thinking of abusing the system:
- We have backups
- You may be site-banned