In an attempt to have more reference material and also make editing it easier for everyone, we are working towards creating an osu! wiki. This is the second attempt at doing so, and will hopefully be more successful than the last one . The end goal is that it replaces the existing FAQ section, and allows it to become a much more exhaustive resource.

Editing is open to all s ed on the forums, and you can using the same you use for osu!. Feel free to chip in in any way you can, by providing new content or helping move the existing FAQ content over. You can also use the mediawiki discussion pages to figure out formatting/organisational issues, and bring up any concerns you may have in this thread.

More information on editing protocol can also be found here: http://osu-ppy-sh.jeuxcrack.net/wiki/index.php?title=WikiFAQ:Editing (also includes information on how to localise to different languages)


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I have been doing some stuff in there already, mostly translating and adding screenshots.

oh, a nice addition to further develop the osu! media =]]

Please try to keep stuff unbiased and comprehensive. And don't make assumptions on game mechanics without proof.

I hope osu! wiki can be a good resource for all people of osu! in the future

Edit : Oh yes, peppy, don't forget to add it into Help link, if Osu! wiki has been well established. :3

Added a link.

peppy wrote: 6w4l42

This is the second attempt at doing so, and will hopefully be more successful than the last one .

Considering the rate at which things are progressing, I would not worry about that at all. ^_^ I'm quite impressed, actually.

It is progressing quite fast . I'd say we should try and move as much content from the forums as possible, for example:
http://osu-ppy-sh.jeuxcrack.net/p/formatpost&id=21575
viewtopic.php?f=13&t=3815
viewtopic.php?f=56&t=37194

Edit: maybe it'd be good to make a wiki page of stuff waiting to be converted .

working on porting a few guides myself
already did yours, ekaru.

Thank you for making this, It makes editing already alot of easier :3

I think I can start a Chinese one when I'm free
And I should learn how to use it first /o/

I once was a quite capable editor in Korean Wikipedia so I'm familiar with wiki grammer, but unfortunatly, I'm not that good at writing something in English as I'm not a native or something. orz orz orz

Already made Indonesian's Main Page and ID:Beatmapping..Hope there would be another Indonesian help in translating it
btw, seeing that the author got a url in their signature, in a way this wiki could be used as a page eh(it will be forbidden I guess)? xD]
one more thing, why don't we insert the definition of glossary into pages like this?
http://osu-ppy-sh.jeuxcrack.net/wiki/index.php?title=Beatmap
rather than making a new definition, I think it's better if we use the one from the glossary. Except if the glossary and wiki page must not be the same.

lepidopodus wrote: 5n5iy

I once was a quite capable editor in Korean Wikipedia so I'm familiar with wiki grammer, but unfortunatly, I'm not that good at writing something in English as I'm not a native or something. orz orz orz

Please write in Korean then, it's fine and preferably some of the templates and categories might have to be written in Korean or in any other language preferably.

This is great. Time for me to start editing~

I just ported over the glossary. My idea was basically to create redirects to that page rather than a new page for each term. If someone wants to format it better, be my guest.

Also, how ing the current events page as a TODO list? It's easily accessible for everyone and there isn't a much better use for it atm.

Making a signature so this wiki will get exposed more.

I'm sorry for using Lilyko's fanart. It looks so sexy and thought of it as a nice touch to the sig.

lol dkun works on Tagalog osu!wiki

I hope this osu!wiki goes swell

Oh, it'd be cool if we could link pages that are translations of each other together, like you can do in wikipedia.

Hrrrgh, I really wanna contribute... it's just that I don't know what I can actually add :< Obviously Taiko related since that's my field of expertise but IDK...

I wish the best for this wiki!

/ has already been adding stuff to it /

I'm not good at writing stuff, so I'll just try and find grammar mistakes to fix.

I could helping for some german translation but i never worked on a wiki before
I think about that.

One thing i've been noticing is the lack of links on the different pages of the wiki, it's not that hard to do, just [[text]] and it will link to a page called "text" additionally you can use [[name|text]] and it will add a link on "text" to a page called "name".

Now why are links useful? because they are there to help people go and do a quick check on what a word/term means for instance if someone is reading about mapping, and it says "jumps" or "etna sliders" a new will go wtf, linking to the def. of the term will help the understand what the words/ mean.

Quaraezha wrote: 414j1l

lol dkun works on Tagalog osu!wiki

I hope this osu!wiki goes swell

I already edited some not-so-good word choices for the Tagalog pages >.>

Edit with the same way in wikipedia? I also want to edit in Chinese

this is very good, but maybe add a section for the contests and charts of every month

NoHItter wrote: 2253s

Quaraezha wrote: 414j1l

lol dkun works on Tagalog osu!wiki

I hope this osu!wiki goes swell

I already edited some not-so-good word choices for the Tagalog pages >.>

Can't be helped since dkun doesn't always speak in Tagalog, and the fact that he's residing in the US.

Also, is there an image gallery in the wiki?

Nice work.
I think I'll do some german translation when im bored :3

Lunatic Neko wrote: 66d6o

Nice work.
I think I'll do some german translation when im bored :3

i do the same thing right now

Sounds cool!

I can't because of “Invalid name” reason. Is this because I have “[]” in my name?

Can you create RU namespace?

I saw it and went "-.- Is this really necessary?" But then I saw a few of the parts like "mapping techniques" and I went "Ohh~ so it's actually informative." Very nice pepster. On another note, I'm still curious how Japan is treating you. You'll have to pm me sometime.

Thanks, now i know hwo to map very god on insane and another maps
Good job.

there seems to be quite a lot of progress ._.

/mehelps

nice job everyone so far

(the site is a little annoying tho, cuz my name is automatically capitalized, which I don't want, but whatever :/.)

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dreamon_cn wrote: 1f3d4q

404 Not Found

hmmm thats odd? o-o it works fine at mine...

That would be my fault, but it's fixed now.

I have fixed the issues with invalid names. Your use page may not be accessible (on the wiki end) for the time-being, but will work fine.

I get “you have not specified a valid name” when I try to via Opera and “Incorrect ” when I use Chrome ( is correct, I can on the main website)


And again, will you create RU namespace?

Quaraezha wrote: 414j1l

Tagalog osu!wikil

Finally. There's something I can edit right.

[Dellirium] wrote: 1x621p

I get “you have not specified a valid name” when I try to via Opera and “Incorrect ” when I use Chrome ( is correct, I can on the main website)

I tried my best but adding for [] is a pain, and beyond the scope I'd like to look at for the moment. I will offer anyone with [] in their name an on-the-spot name change (to remove the []). Otherwise you will not be able to access the wiki for the time being.

[Dellirium] wrote: 1x621p

And again, will you create RU namespace?

You or another Russian can create it yourselves. That's the idea of a wiki .

Cool idea. I'm going to gather some people to expand Polish section once I have a while

Well I'm working in spanish for now.

Keep the good work everyone :3

I totally added stuff \o/

I tried osu!wiki to my osu! , I couldn't .

 error
 There is no  by the name "Kim Jin Seok". Check your spelling.

Kim Jin Seok wrote: 1n2n4

I tried osu!wiki to my osu! , I couldn't .

 error
 There is no  by the name "Kim Jin Seok". Check your spelling.

Use _ instead of Spaces

@TBTE: My name has a space and i fine tho

I'll look into the space issue in the near future.

I edited some stuffs about the game modifiers on Wiki...
I was thinking of adding a template about the detailed effects of the Game Modifiers, like how hard it is to play a beatmap with HardRock mod on (e.g: the milliseconds timing) or having a criticism section (look what happened to the description here lol). But I'm not good enough to play around with Wiki.

peppy wrote: 6w4l42

I tried my best but adding for [] is a pain, and beyond the scope I'd like to look at for the moment. I will offer anyone with [] in their name an on-the-spot name change (to remove the []). Otherwise you will not be able to access the wiki for the time being.

I Don't get it really, Adding \[ and \] to the preg_match (use mediawiki this way? don't know), and it should work.

Those characters are used for formatting links throughout the wiki. Having them in names causes *huge* issues throughout the codebase. You are likely underestimating how fickle mediawiki is, too. The best option is linking stripped names correctly to their osu! counterparts, but this will take a bit of effort.

it...automatically uppercase my name's first letter...
I wil see what I could do there and keep translation, that could be done even I am at work xD

peppy wrote: 6w4l42

I tried my best but adding for [] is a pain, and beyond the scope I'd like to look at for the moment. I will offer anyone with [] in their name an on-the-spot name change (to remove the []). Otherwise you will not be able to access the wiki for the time being.

okay, I can wait.

peppy wrote: 6w4l42

You or another Russian can create it yourselves. That's the idea of a wiki .

er... Namespace != an article with RU:, only bureaucrats can create them. If ones creates an article with RU:, and then a bureaucrat creates the same namespace, horrible things can happen.
I just want to be sure that creation of a namespace is not nesessary.

error
There is no by the name "Gomo_Psivarh". Check your spelling.

error
There is no by the name "Gomo Psivarh". Check your spelling.

peppy wrote: 6w4l42

I'll look into the space issue in the near future.

Categories are being used for languages at the moment, which I believe you can create.

I see mostly only Asian countries that cant ,,, is that maybe the problem?

peppy wrote: 6w4l42

Those characters are used for formatting links throughout the wiki. Having them in names causes *huge* issues throughout the codebase.

i forgott this thing, well, this is really a bit tricky, likely an complete rewrite of the code (a bit huge, but like so ).

peppy wrote: 6w4l42

You are likely underestimating how fickle mediawiki is, too.

not really worked with mediawiki yet, and i don't plan this in the future. but i know the size of the Wiki, so i can intruduce how difficult it is to rewrite it.



BTW: the The German CTB Text should by Ready Now

how about these ?
i don't know why yesterday still able to even after met the error like this...
i've tried to with underscores or spaces, or changing case too..

I slightly broke the system for names with spaces and will look at fixing it today.

abalee wrote: 5x605

it...automatically uppercase my name's first letter...
I wil see what I could do there and keep translation, that could be done even I am at work xD

I can , and same problem with abalee, it shows Wmfchris rather than wmf...

That is how mediawiki works. I am looking at whether it is feasible to change this, but for now just bear with it please.

Are we allowed to further edit some content that's already there? I feel IRC isn't as informative as it could be.

of course you are, that's the entire point of a wiki

Okay, I think we need to split up the Distance Snap and Spacing pages. For some odd reason, the Distance Snap page serves as the Spacing page, and this really makes little sense; the Distance Snap feature is a feature that suggests a spacing for you, while Spacing is simply the distance between two hit objects and is something you can write entire essays on. The distance snap spacing is not necessarily always the ideal spacing, and therefore combining the two pages is just confusing.

Also working on the Mapping Techniques page. I'll finish it up after Wednesday if it's still not done by then.

Wow... It doesn't let me connect anymore, I could before but now, I can't.

Function: ::addToDatabase
Error: 1062 Duplicate entry '_gezo_' for key '_name' (localhost)

I got this.

The French Taiko entry page for it will wait a little :l

looks like it's your lol (contains _ )

totally added more stuff. this wiki thing is cool

I believe to have fixed the issue with names with underscores/special charaters. Please note that your wiki names will still have a capital first letter, but this is something I am willing to live with for now.

Report back if you are still having any problems.

Question -- will it be a problem if I wanted to add a hebrew translation, since it's a right-to-left language?

Give it a try and see how it goes.

wait... why "ReiFan49" instead of "Rei_Fan49" ?
also, i can't using "Rei Fan49" (previous ID) D:

EDIT:
1. is my previous ID was deleted ? http://osu-ppy-sh.jeuxcrack.net/wiki/:Rei_fan49

names as a result may have changed slightly. I am not sure if this will be the final implementation, but I don't think changes this early in the wiki setup will be too harmful.

I'm noticing that capitalization is a little inconsistent for example "Ranked beatmaps" and "Pending Beatmaps" which one is generally better to use?

Also, should the wiki be written informally with things such as "Don't worry!" and/or "Delicious normal difficulties"?

I've added a bunch of stuff to the Storyboarding category. I know I've been out of practice for a while, so feel free to correct what I wrote if it's wrong.

I was wondering, with capitalization again, should "Ranking criteria" be "Ranking Criteria" because it's "THE" Ranking Criteria

Titles generally should use Capitals for Most Words.

wow