Help:Updates

This page documents the procedure for adding patch notes to the wiki. Patch notes now use the template {{Patch layout}} to keep their layout consistent.

Instructions

Creating a new article

1. New patch articles should use the name format Month DD, YYYY Patch. If the patch is for the Xbox, append (Xbox) to the end. Examples:

January 1, 1970 Patch or January 1, 1970 Patch (Xbox)

2. Copy and paste the following code:

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

| notes  =

...

}}

3. Copy and paste the patch notes directly from the article on http://store.steampowered.com/news/ and format them like this:

* 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.

=== Community requests ===
* Added a new cvar

4. Add the URL of the update page to the source line at the top like this:

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

5. Add the date of the previous patch to the before line like this:

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

6. Add N/A to the after line.
7. Preview your article and if everything works fine hit Save page.

   Updating the rest of the wiki

8. Go to Template:Updates and make sure patch-month and patch-day are all correct and up-to-date.
9. Go to the patch just before the new one and update its after line with a link to the latest patch:

| after = N/A on the old patch article now becomes | after = [[January 1, 1970 Patch]] (the date of the latest patch)

10. Go to the article on Patches and add the latest patch as a new item to the top of the list.
11. You're done.

Advanced

For more complicated patches.

• Handling two source links at once:

| 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 received 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