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Oldag07·1/10/2025 in General

Civilization Wiki Civ7 refresh

I contacted fandom support about if and when this page would get a Civilization 7 refresh. They were super supportive.

Hi there! I'm the Fandom Community Manager assigned to the Civilization Wiki (ReverieCode). We would be more than happy to provide a design update for Civilization VII, as long as all admins at the wiki are in agreement with us doing that. If we proceed with this, we would show a preview to get the wiki's opinion, before we make any direct changes. Do you think the wiki would be interested in a home page update as well, or more a skin refresh (background image, etc.)? I'm asking as we could attempt to obtain access to official assets from the game for working on this. Please let me know what your thoughts are - and thanks for reaching out about this!

Lucas Melo

Community Manager, Gaming

Since there is a preview mode before any sort of release, I told them to make as many changes as they see fit. This has been discussed with the admins in private, but i figured I would put this in the open for community input. Thanks for all your hard work!

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Oldag07·6/11/2023

Yes, the reason why this wiki, along with most of the Fandom wikis do not have the templates that sites like Wikipedia is the fact that Fandom for several years did not have the most updated version of the mediawiki software. While the templates you are adding work now, they were not added in the past because the older mediawiki platform did not allow us to. That changed when Fandom upgrade all of its pages to the UCP. https://community.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:MisterWoodhouse/Unified_Community_Platform:_The_Vision,_Purpose,_and_Process No one got around to upgrading this wiki to take advantage of these new features.

This site is an all volunteer maintained. Interest has wained in part because Firaxis hasn't really released a new game for a while. However, there are rumors of a Civ 7 in development. When that is announced, this page should be an exciting place to be. If you need anything please holler. Thanks for your hard work.

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Oldag07·6/9/2023

Nice work so far. We are pretty laid back on this wiki. Inititive is appreciated.

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Oldag07·5/17/2020

I haven't played civ 4 in years....

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Oldag07·5/17/2020

I believe I understand what you are asking for. First off, we appreciate any help that we can get, so thank you for your help. Second, while you certainly have every right not to edit with an account, signing up [1] for a fandom accounts unlocks some tools that are available to anonymous users.

If you don't want to create an account, there are several ways to edit the unit statistics in the Civilization IV unit pages. For peope without accounts, you are locked into editing the page with the visual editor. (https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Help:VisualEditor) Unit states are found in what we call infobox templates. There are two ways to edit infobox templates. you can click the infobox directly in the infobox, and you can modify the unit stats through the visual editor too.

EditingUnits — Editing Units using Visual Editor

. You may also directly modify the source code by clicking source on the top left hand corner of the visual editor. I hope that helps.

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Oldag07·5/16/2020

Could you give us some examples of what you would do?

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Oldag07·3/1/2018 in Wiki discussion

I am thinking about starting a bot account. I would like to change the nav template BeyondEarthContentsNav to CivBE to be consistant with the other nav templates. I have used autowikibrowser with wikipedia already.

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Oldag07·12/3/2017

I already did it.

Oldag07·12/2/2017 in Wiki discussion

New Civilization Game navigation template

I have made some potential changes to the Civilization game Navigation template. Please take a look. civilization.wikia.com/wiki/User:Oldag07/sandbox3

Oldag07/sandbox3Civilization Wiki

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Oldag07·12/10/2016 in Civ6

template:Resource (Civ6) bug

This template seems to have a bug right under technology enhancement. There seems to be 4 extra columns. I would fix it, but I am a bit confused where the extra column is coming from.

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Oldag07·11/3/2016

No, my original goal was to upgrade it. Then I realized that the series page probably needed an upgrade too. I guess I can open a fourth sandbox.

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Oldag07·11/2/2016

The wikipedia chronology section of the Civilization (series) page is actually a very good template for this page.

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Oldag07·11/2/2016 in Wiki discussion

Civilization Series Page Upgrade

I have been messing with Civilization (series) page. I think I can convert it into table format. ~~Please comment and add and subtract to what I have in my Sandbox as you see fit. I plan to finish it over the weekend.~~

Page updated. I also streamlined the navbox. Please copyedit, and add more to the page.

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Oldag07·10/16/2016 in CivBE

Fixing Rising Tide Wonder pages

I have been trying to fix the Rising Tide wonder pages such as the Abyssal Mirror (CivBE). I am unable to add the Template:Wonder (CivBE) template but all I get is "script error". I have tried to make this fix but it seems like that adds a script error on all thep building and wonder pages. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks.

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Oldag07·10/2/2016

Computer is finally back. I know civ 6 is the priority, so I guess I will do the rest.

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Oldag07·9/13/2016

I tried a different strategy with the tech web. It works well because the tech web is all in circles. I think the buildings however should be done in the same way the units are. Or you could make the background the color of the Infobox. that could also work. Unfortunately, I Spilled water on my laptop. It is under warranty. but I won't be able to edit much for the next few weeks. Well best of luck to all.

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Oldag07·9/11/2016

I got the units. They were the most urgent. Those images are some of the first ones I uploaded to the site. They aren't even labeled (CivBE).png at the end. The buildings, wonders and the tech web are significantly easier because they do. I will leave it in your capable hands to finish the rest of them. It is less urgent to change them because while they still can't be seen on mobile sites, all incidents of their uses are behind dark background infoboxes and tables.

Also there are white transparent icons on Starting a new game (CivBE) are slightly more visible with white backgrounds, but if you can get a script to do them, go for it.

Made a to do list on my page.

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Oldag07·9/11/2016

I think I am just going to do the converting now. It is tedious.

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Oldag07·9/6/2016

There has got to be some workaround.

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Oldag07·9/2/2016 in CivBE

Dark thumbnail box for white transparent images

Many of the beyond earth images are white with transparent backgrounds. This is great for the current site because the site itself has a dark background. There seems to be talk of a Civ 6 redesign of this site that might have a lighter background. Most of the the white transparent images should be fine because they are in tables and infoboxes. However there are a few of the images that are not. See the unit pages like Soldier (CivBE). Is there some way to make a dark background thumbnail template that could be used for these types of images. Thanks.

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