Ytptenniswiki:About

ytptenniswiki is a wiki that's sole focus is all aspects pertaining and related to Video Tennis. The goal is to document anything anyone would want to know when it comes to this community, being useful for players and enthusiasts alike.

There are several distinct stylistic changes between ytptenniswiki, Chewiki and other similar projects:

• There are no pages for individual players ("pooper pages"). Pages about players can quickly become personal and biased, and goes beyond the scope of the wiki.
• Less of a focus on YTP - only the things that apply to both YTP and tennis.
• Contributions will be done by trusted people only. Almost everything I would be preferred to write from scratch, as Chewiki is full of outdated and possibly incorrect information. While historical facts, for example, likely will be taken from there, the plan is to rephrase it in a better way when migrating to a new site.

Contact

mrdoognoog is the webmaster of ytptennis.com, as well as the wiki and everything else on the site. If you'd like to contact me, please send a message on discord (my username is also mrdoognoog).

Credits

- mrdoognoog - Website Administrator

- pjfrix - Logo Artist

- All the tennis staff (most notably dani_phantump, infinitysnapz, TheChutley and VidTens443) - major article contributions, general guidance

- All other editors, such as Yottifferent and fiv95 for their help and support

Guidelines for Editors

To prevent vandalism and maintain a quality standard, only the Tennis Staff by default are allowed to edit the site. Other trusted members of the community can also apply to edit the wiki directly. If you are interested in contributing, go to the discord help server.

Please keep these in mind when working on new pages / updating old ones.

• Do NOT import templates/modules from elsewhere without given permission. These can break the site and can cause a whole multitude of problems if not done right! Player aliases are fine, however - feel free to add those.
• As mentioned above, no player/"pooper" pages, including for yourself. (The User:USER pages are OK.)
• Feel free to take requests from other users.
• Maintain Objectivity. Avoid saying things are "good" or "bad", if you do, use the third person. For example: "This match is often considered the best of its time..."
• As it is a historical artifact, referencing Chewiki and similar sites is pretty much a necessity. But please do not quote it verbatim. Chewiki had very little quality control, so be sure to cross-reference with other sources if possible.
• When uploading images/assets, please change the filename to something relevant to the image, rather than leaving it as "8970Efas9df7asd.PNG". Captions are useful, but not when trying to find said file!
• 'Add references whenever possible so claims can be backed up, etc. Source pages are generated automatically, so be sure to add a "=Sources=" header to the very bottom of the page (should be the last thing in the document) in order to separate the generated references from the rest of the page's content.

Looking for something to do? Check Special:ShortPages and Special:WantedPages. These have the shortest pages or things that are missing, respectively. We also have a spreadsheet that shows planned notable match pages, as well as the ability to add new suggestions.

Creating a Match Page

If you have a match page you want to make, start by getting approval from the others to make sure it would be acceptable. From there, copy in the Match Template and start filling in information. Make sure to get the following:

• The name of the match
• Its type (vanilla, chain, MTT, etc.)
• Who played in it
• The start and end times (if possible)
• 1-2 notable images and quotes from the match
• The link to its corresponding thread, on YouChew, YTPMania, YellowTealPurple, etc.
• If the match was complete, the corresponding completion number for each player ("This is Johnny's 32 completed match and Jenny's 39th.") Especially important if it was any player's first or last game.
• The rounds themselves - a YouTube link, the title and player. This can be generated with TennisWikiMatchPageTool, available on the help discord
• A YouTube link of the match compilation, if one exists. This can be easily done with GameSetMatch
• All notable citations and references

Feel free to ask around if you need more help, or read the documentation comments on related templates and pages to see what to do.

Creating a Tool Page

Tool pages (like video editors) are only necessary if they have documentation that goes beyond a simple summary, such as tips and tricks. When this is the case, there may already be an entry on its related category page, such as List of Video Editors. If not, or if you realize an expansion is possible, make a page and add the related data.

Templates

Page Templates

These are template pages that can be filled in with their respective information.

Notable Match Page

A page for making templates of a notable match. Can be found here.

Bracket Templates

All bracket templates start and end with double braces.

Alias Templates

People change their username online. This can be for a variety of factors, and it is important that this is kept up to date. Thus, templates exist for players that may have multiple usernames - for example, RapskallionXYZ. One can mouse over one of these names to see anything else they may have went by.

The current, up-to-date way to create aliases is to use the Template:Alias template. More instructions can be found there.

Templates that use older names should redirect to one "main" alias page. Remember to pass the "U" parameter or matchboxes will break!

Staff Templates

All current and former members of the Tennis Staff have yellow names: for example, ChrisGendo. All staff have their own templates, even if they don't have alternate names, just to turn their names yellow; use them whenever possible as there is currently no way to automatically parse them as such.

Message Boxes

Currently, message boxes exist for the following situations:

• Stub: A page is nowhere close to complete and needs significant work done
• WIP: A page is almost done, has most basic information, but still needs more
• InProgress: The page's subject matter is currently ongoing and may change suddenly
• PrivateVideo: Put this under a video that is currently private/lost. Use a different one for each private video (not one per article).

More are expected as need necessary.

Matchboxes

A "match box" is a box that can be used to put basic information about a tennis match. The current version is "V2" and should be used instead of V1 so updates retain to each one across the site.

Their documentation can be found here.

Navboxes

The following navigation boxes ("navboxes") exist for ease of communication across the site:

• Tournaments: Lists all canon tennis tournaments.

• Types: Lists all common types of tennis.

More are expected as need necessary.

Resources

This section has resources for wiki-building elements.

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki The MediaWiki home page, where most things can be found.
• https://www.tablesgenerator.com/mediawiki_tables Table Generator for MediaWiki - can also do Markdown, etc.