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English or American english?
We sorta need to get a uniformity going in the wiki. this is an issue in many wikis, and needs to be corrected.

What type of english do we use? American or English?

I personally, of course, choose British English, though I know the majority of readers are american. so it's an issue of origin versus popularity.

thoughts? votes? --Kizzycocoa 15:08, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
 * American English, because the majority of users are American, Curse is an American company and the servers are located in America. (as far as I know)--Quatroking -  MCWiki Administrator  15:11, 2 August 2011 (UTC)


 * I am going to vote for American English simply because it is easier for Firefox users. The default installed Firefox autocorrect dictionary prefers American English, even in the Great Britain version, or so I have read.  Verhalthur (talk)(contribs) 15:13, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Also voting American English - it's what the majority of people are used to and frankly, if you went British English people would just be correcting articles anyways (because no one bothers to read the rules :P) --Warlock 15:21, 2 August 2011 (UTC)


 * I vote British English, simply because I automatically spell that way. Especially when describing the colour of things, or what behaviour they display. :D DreadLindwyrm 15:47, 2 August 2011 (UTC)


 * There was already a discussion on the date format that should be used, and I believe whatever language that is used, it should be the same as that language's date format, or all dates are changed to an international standard, or at least an internationally readable format (DD Month-Name YYYY).
 * I, of course, will vote for British English, as this is a wiki, it is generally considered best to use the most formal language (even small things like saying it is instead of it's). Remember that "American English" is just a lazy version of British English. It is even slightly similar to txt speech, which while much more lazy and severe than what American English has done, American English is still removing letters from normal words with the only reason to make them quicker to type or write, which is the same and very popular concept of txt speech. – ultradude25 ( T at 19:48, 2 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Note the vast, vast differences between the Wikipedia pages for American English and SMS Language or Internet Slang. American English is a dialect in its own right, containing a large amount of unique words (not abbreviated phrases).  As far as calling British English the most formal language, I'm going to have to say:   :)    Verhalthur (talk)(contribs) 20:04, 2 August 2011 (UTC)


 * The problem is I'm extremely biased against American English, because I hate America for being childish with this whole "we have to be independent and not do anything the same as anyone else" nonsense (which is ironically making me be childish about it). Things would be a lot simpler if America just stuck with normal English, and didn't use outdated measurements like Fahrenheit.  – ultradude25 ( T at 17:32, 3 August 2011 (UTC)


 * It makes discussions like these pop up on all of the wikis. :T And Scaler does have a good point. (Possibly a discussion-resolving point?)  Verhalthur (talk)(contribs) 17:39, 3 August 2011 (UTC)


 * You realize Britian has its own crazy system of measurements too, right? --Warlock 17:43, 3 August 2011 (UTC)


 * I don't like Britain's money system, I don't actually know what measurements they use, but at least they use normal temperatures. – ultradude25 ( T at 00:08, 4 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Isn't Minecraft using American English (gray instead of grey)? I think it could be confusing to have the games terms in American English and the rest of the page in British English. – Scaler (t) 20:15, 2 August 2011 (UTC)


 * I vote for American English. Mainly because it's the english I learned and know how to write. Ok, you can say now, that you would correct it to British English. But thats a lot of work. But I know too, that there are people who have time to do such things. The other point is the thing Scaler highlighted. –The preceding unsigned comment was added by Freaktechnik (Talk . Please sign your posts with


 * I think it does not matter as long as we don't use british terms like trolley or american terms like a la mode. not that anyone would really use either of those on the minecraft wiki, but most american people understand grey and colour and most british people understand gray and color. Also in terms of measurements we should use the metric system because minecraft uses meters. Also what is everyone talking about with the british being more formal? You guys use contractions too- right?

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 * "à la mode" is not american it's french ^^". I agree to use the metric system. – Scaler (t) 20:05, 10 August 2011 (UTC)


 * American English is the Curse standard. That being said however, Queen's English is also acceptable, and not something that should be hunted down and changed, nor should any use be reprimanded or reverted for using it. -- Wynthyst [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]] talk  00:40, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Notch/Mojang Watch?
I think it's time to devise a new plan.... Not every little item mentioned by Notch or the rest of Mojang in tweets, and blogs will become a part of Minecraft, yet people seem to believe that everything needs a page. I suggest we create a single page where this stuff can be listed, and the links to the tweets and comments can be posted for future reference. If and when we have confirmation that an item is coming in a patch, or has actually been added to the game, THEN the information can be used to create a page.... Opinions? -- Wynthyst  talk  00:36, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
 * A huge list of citations with the references along with it should be workable.--Quatroking -  MCWiki Administrator  01:22, 13 August 2011 (UTC)


 * To quote my response two topics above:

The Upcoming Features article seems too definite for features that are so in development that they are very likely to change, so an article following the development of new things would help proliferate the knowledge of updates. I know quite a few people that are not able to follow the Twitter and Google+ accounts of developers but would still like to know what to expect in future patches. It is, after all, data that is contained in a version of Minecraft even if that version is only known to the developers.
 * --Verhalthur (talk)(contribs) 02:38, 13 August 2011 (UTC)


 * I follow Notch's Twitter feed religiously, and I have excellent bullshit sensors - I can almost always tell when he's just joking around about some feature or another (cue hotdog tweet) - so I could help out in that regard. Does anyone do the same for Jeb's Twitter feed? 「 ダイノ ガイ 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 06:19, 18 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Actually, Jeb knows about this particular issue since I told him about it once on the IRC. Either way I've got him followed too and it's pretty easy to filter out the jokes and stuff.


 * We can probably make a big page of references using grouped references; . If we'd then just group a lot of twitter messages, Google+, /r/Minecraft and other links, we'd probably get a rather clear overview of all citations made by Mojang.--Quatroking -  MCWiki Administrator  08:42, 18 August 2011 (UTC)


 * I think we should make this happen... sooner rather than later??? -- Wynthyst [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]] talk  16:17, 18 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Any suggestions for an article title? 「 ダイノ ガイ 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 18:10, 18 August 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm already working on a draft, I decided that Citations, references and sources would be a good title.--Quatroking -  MCWiki Administrator  18:18, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

help with beta
i got beta about a week ago and i was trying to load it today and it wont load :( –The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jordan9839 (Talk. Please sign your posts with


 * Please clarify. CosmoConsole 	 my page! my talk! my contributions! 17:05, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

Old articles lost in the wiki in bad quality
Some of the articles in the wiki are old, outdated, badly written and generally bad, for example: Chunk updates, Admin, Lua Scripting, Creation and saving class. Map Editing (hex) all of thous articles are from Category:Server and Category:Development, which contain many articles like thous, but I believe there are more categories like that! I have no idea what to do with them..delete? rewrite? merge? i really don't know...--Yurisho 15:29, 25 August 2011 (UTC)


 * For the record, a list of pages which have gone the longest without being edited can be found at Special:AncientPages. Interesting how many pages from translation projects are on that list... 「 ダイノ ガイ 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 17:34, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Ignoring the translation articles, the others should be tagged with a version of Template:Outdated that indicates they need to be updated/rewritten etc. -- Wynthyst [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]] talk  18:32, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Really? Template:Outdated?? It doesn't even makes sense...--Yurisho 19:10, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah, Template:Outdated refers to features that were once in normal Minecraft, but are no longer. I, personally, have been sorting through them to see what I can add to the articles, but most of them are translations.  Verhalthur (talk)(contribs) 19:14, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

Item naming proposal
Shouldn't we call all items that also have a block with a similar name similarly? Right now we have Diamond (Gem)), Iron (Ingot), and Gold (Ingot).

First of all, the ingame items are actually Diamond, Iron Ingot, and Gold Ingot, without parentheses, so the ingots should probably retain their ingame name.

But seeing as the Diamond page should be a disambiguation, calling all items that need the defining extension Name (Item) seems to make more sense to me, for example: Diamond (Item)  Verhalthur (talk)(contribs) 17:38, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

Lawsuit
Should the lawsuit between Mojang and Bethesda have a page for it? Or at least mentioned in the Mojang AP page? It is an important part of Mojang history, you could say. &#124; JSan 17:51, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Definitely not its own page. This is the Minecraft wiki, not the Scrolls wiki.  I could see it fitting well on the Mojang page.  Verhalthur (talk)(contribs) 18:17, 27 August 2011 (UTC)