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Tutorials page/namespace
One problem often seen in the modding community is the lack of available tutorials. This becomes a hurdle for new developers, who have to scour the internet for decent tutorials, which can be outdated or contain errors.
I propose that we add a Tutorials' page or namespace, to allow the creation of tutorials here on the wiki. By being on the wiki, it can be edited and updated by anyone, allowing quick correction of errors and general improvements, the benefits on being on a publicly-editable wiki.
We have a few questions to answer though:
- Should we have a singular
Tutorialpage and have tutorials be in subpages (Tutorial/Getting started,Tutorial/Blocks), or use a new namespace (Tutorial:Getting started,Tutorial:Blocks)? - Should we have example mods on these tutorial pages, or only have snippets? Example mods could be hosted on the FCW's mod-examples GitHub repo, though this raises the barrier of creating and improving these example mods.
Having tutorials on the wiki would improve our visibility (so people recommend the wiki's tutorials), and would benefit new developers who may be overwhelmed by other pages with the more technical details and encyclopedic tone.