Create a new bot page

2022-01-03T17:01:06Z

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Creating a new page for your bot is pretty simple! Just follow these steps.

* Before you begin, you'll need to create an account on the NHRL wiki. It's free, and only takes a couple of seconds.
* Once you have an account, make sure you're logged in.
* [[Special:UploadWizard|Upload a picture of your bot]], if you have one. It's best to use a photo of your bot against a plain white background, like the one you took at the event. Fill out all the information.
** Be sure to note the filename of your picture; it'll look something like "File:New_Bot.jpg".
** If you don't have a photo of your bot, that's okay! Keep going.
* At the top of the wiki page, enter your bot's name in the search bar and hit enter/return.
** If you see a page come up for your bot, that means one of two things.
*** '''There's already a page for your bot.''' No need to create a page! That was easy.
*** '''There's already a bot with the name you want to use.''' You'll likely want to rename your bot to something unique.
* Look for a link that lets you create a new page with your bot's name. Click it.
* Paste the following text into the page:
===Robot Facts===
<nowiki>[[File:NHRLScanLines.png|30%px|thumb|right|Image coming soon!]]</nowiki>
<nowiki>{| class="wikitable" style="width: 60%"
|-</nowiki>
<nowiki>|</nowiki> Builder <nowiki>||</nowiki> (TBA
<nowiki>|-</nowiki>
<nowiki>|</nowiki> Driver <nowiki>||</nowiki> (TBA)
<nowiki>|-</nowiki>
<nowiki>|</nowiki> Weight Class <nowiki>||</nowiki> <nowiki>[[3lb Weight Class|3lb]]</nowiki>
<nowiki>|-</nowiki>
<nowiki>|</nowiki> Body Material <nowiki>||</nowiki> (TBA)
<nowiki>|-</nowiki>
<nowiki>|</nowiki> Weapon <nowiki>||</nowiki> (TBA)
<nowiki>|-</nowiki>
<nowiki>|</nowiki> Weapon Drive <nowiki>||</nowiki> (TBA)
<nowiki>|-</nowiki>
<nowiki>|</nowiki> Drive <nowiki>||</nowiki> (TBA)
<nowiki>|-</nowiki>
<nowiki>|</nowiki> Power <nowiki>||</nowiki> (TBA)
<nowiki>|}</nowiki>

<nowiki>{{Bot Stats|bot=New_Bot|class=3lb}}</nowiki>

<nowiki>== Select Fights ==</nowiki>
Video links coming soon!

<nowiki>[[Category:3lb Bots]]</nowiki><nowiki>[[Category:NHRL 2021]]</nowiki>

* You'll want to update some of that text:
** If you uploaded an image of your bot, replace "NHRLScanLines.png" with the filename of the image you uploaded.
*** Change the text "Image coming soon!" to the name of your bot.
** Update all the robot facts (Builder, Driver, Weight Class, Body Material, and so on) from "Unknown" to the appropriate text. You know your bot best!
*** Put double-brackets around each name, like this: <nowiki>[[Jane Doe]]</nowiki]. That links to a page where you can put more information about that person.
*** "Builder" is the person (or people) who mainly work on the bot. It's okay to put multiple people in here.
*** "Driver" is the person who drives the bot.
**** If multiple people drive the bot (e.g. it's a multibot), you can put multiple names here.
**** If there's a minibot driver, put "(minibot)" after the double closing brackets. For example, <nowiki>[[John Doe]] (minibot)</nowiki>.
**** If your bot is part of a team, please add a row to the table. It should look like this:
<nowiki>|-
| Team || Foo Bar
|-</nowiki>
** In the line that says "Bot Stats", replace "New_Bot" with the name of your bot.
*** If your bot name has any spaces in it, replace them with underscores! So if your bot is named Foo Bar, you'll want to replace "New_Bot" with "Foo_Bar", not "Foo Bar".
*** If your bot has an ampersand (&) in its name, replace it with "%26". So for a bot named "Foo & Bar", put in "Foo_%26_Bar".
*** If your bot is not in the 3lb weight class, update the "3lb" section to one of the following values:
**** 12lb
**** 12lb_Sportsman
**** 30lb
** If there are fights on YouTube you really want to show off, put a link in the Select Fights section!
*** If you do this, replace the text "Video links coming soon!" with links to your videos.
*** Please link to NHRL fights only. Footage you shot is perfectly okay.
*** It's best to embed the video. You can do that by typing the following, replacing "YOUTUBE_LINK" with the URL to the fight you want to highlight.
<nowiki>{{#ev:youtube|YOUTUBE_LINK}}</nowiki>
*** You're welcome to show off as many fights as you want. Just know that the more fights you feature, the less of a "highlight" each one will be. We suggest no more than 3 videos.
** At the bottom of the page, if your bot is not a 3lb bot, you'll want to update its category. The other valid categories are...
*** Category:12lb Bots
*** Category:12lb Sportsman Bots
*** Category:30lb Bots
** If the year is no longer 2021, update "Category: NHRL 2021" to the correct year.

==Do's and Don'ts==
===Do:===
* '''Do''' put in as much detail as you'd like.
* '''Do''' check out other bot pages to see what other builders have written. See pages for [[Division]], [[Voxel]], [[Luma's Weed Whacker 3]], and [[PGF]] for examples of pages that are informative, well written, and funny.
* '''Do''' upload more pictures of your bot and sprinkle them in your page, especially to feature details of your bot. Pictures from your workshop or other places are fine.
** See the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images WikiMedia help page on images] if you want to see ways you can format your images so they fit nicely on the page.

===Don't:===
* '''Don't''' be a jerk. Don't write mean, insulting, or hateful things about other bots, other builders, or anyone really.
* '''Don't''' try to tweak the statistics manually. Instead, if you're not getting the statistics you're expecting, ask [[Gil]] to look into it.

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