Help:Updates

Follow these instructions to update the relevant sections of the Wiki when there is an Update to any of the games, or the Portal blog.

Create a Patch page (Updates only)

Naming

Patch pages should be named according to the following rules:

• Portal 2:
  • PC: Month day, year Patch

    e.g. January 1, 1970 Patch

  • PS3: Month day, year Patch (PS3)

    e.g. January 1, 1970 Patch (PS3)

  • Xbox: Month day, year Patch (Xbox)

    e.g. January 1, 1970 Patch (Xbox)

• Portal:
  • PC: Month day, year Patch (Portal)

    e.g. January 1, 1970 Patch (Portal)

  • PS3: Month day, year Patch (Portal PS3)

    e.g. January 1, 1970 Patch (Portal PS3)

  • Xbox: Month day, year Patch (Portal Xbox)

    e.g. January 1, 1970 Patch (Portal Xbox)

Patch page contents

1. Copy and paste the following code:

{{Patch layout
| source =
| before =
| after  =

| notes  =

...

}}

• Copy and paste the patch notes directly from the article on http://store.steampowered.com/news/ and use the asterisk (*) to recreate the indents, for example:

* Fixed a bug where Portals were two-way.
* Fixed a bug where co-op robots had Portal guns.
** Gave them work to do in an assembly plant instead.
* Fired the guys who made ''those'' robots.

• • If there are no patch notes, simply write: "Patch notes are unavailable at present".
• Add the URL of the update page to the source line at the top like this:

| source = http://store.steampowered.com/news/1234/

• • As above, if patch notes have not been published, do not enter a url.
• Add the date of the previous patch to the before line like this:

| before = [[January 19, 2038 Patch]]

• Add N/A to the after line.
• Preview your article and if everything works fine hit Save page.
• On the previous patch page, adjust after to link to the new patch page.
  • Preview and save this.

Advanced

For complicated patch pages:

• Handling two source links:

| source        = http://store.steampowered.com/news/1234/
| source-title  = Part 1
| source2       = http://store.steampowered.com/news/5678/
| source2-title = Part 2

• Handing update pages (Using TF2.com examples, as the Portal series has never recieved major updates)

| update     = http://www.teamfortress.com/engineerupdate/
| updatelink = The Engineer Update

• • Handling update pages in different languages:

| update      = http://www.teamfortress.com/scoutupdate/german.htm
| updatelink  = Das Scout Update
| update-lang = de

Update Template:Updates

• Edit the Template:Updates. The format is pretty straight forward.

Update Patches

• Ammend the Patches article to list the new patch.
  • There are seperate sections for Portal and Portal 2 patches. Use them correctly.
• Format the link to your patch page as: [[Patch article name|Month day, year]]
  • For patches to specific platforms, append the Platform in brackets for the link text. For example, [[Patch article name|Month day, year (PS3)]]