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shvarz:
Whoever has the rights to do so - you should delete the "glycuse" and "photosythensis" articles and make new ones with correct spelling.  it should be

glucose
photosynthesis

Here is a tip: Next time you are making articles and not sure of spelling - simply do a search on google.  If you spelled it wrong, it will ask you "Did you mean...?"  and will give you the correct spelling.

Numsgil:
I've cleaned up the wiki some to help it conform to a higher standard.

This is very important:

Before you post a page, see if:

1.  There isn't a page for it already (there were two tie pages competing for one another.  One in concepts, the other in DNA commands.  The one in concepts had a nice intro that I incuded to the one in DNA commands, but there's no need for two seperate pages.

2.  You've spelled the title of the page correctly.  This is very important.  If you mispell the page, how is anyone ever going to find it?

3.  You've linked it to another page somewhere in the index.  There's no way to locate the page otherwise except by going to what's new, and that page only works if the page is new!

While you're posting the page, be sure that:

1.  Any words you decide to link link to pages that either are or will be.  For instance, if one person links to [ties] and another links to [tie], we'll end up with multiple instances of the same page.  Bad.

Older pages get seniority unless they're mispelled.

2.  You're using proper grammer.  Minor flaws are understandable, but there is such a thing as a spell checker!  And even grammer checkers depending on your word processor.

That's right, word processor.  Write your posts in a word processor first.

3.  You're information is correct.  We haven't really had a problem with this yet, but some statements have been misleading.  As we go into more advanced topics, check and recheck any information you post.

Those are the rules.  I don't have time to be copy editing all the posts.  Most have been pretty good, but some...

Remember, words are cheap.  Correctly written words in clear and concise wording are not.  Take the time to make your posts right and we'll all benefit.

shvarz:
Regarding the names...  Maybe we should just adopt the naming conventions from wikipedia.  They have a large list of rules, but most important to us are:
1) No plural forms, unless there is no single form (like in scissors)
2) No articles, like the and an, unless they are unseparatable part of the name
3) Instead of verbs and adjectives use nouns when possible
4) If verb has to be added, use -ing form

Don't remember any others, maybe they'll come to me later.

Numsgil:
Good idea.  I agree full heartedly.

Endy:
Thanks, Nums. I used your bot Animal_Minimalis as the showcase bot for the basic bot building tutorial. I think you already saw it. I was thinking the best way to show bot techniques was to split them up based on the level of complexity/type.

Animal_Minimalis is a pretty good example of the new refvars and logical operators, so it should be useful for both new and older players. Umm...I'm not sure I understand what some of the genes are doing :unsure: thankfully that's what wiki's are for. :)

What's up with the wiki syntax page? It was blanked out last night and now in a foreign language. Weird :wacko:

Endy B)

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