Help:Patch notes

This page documents the procedure for adding patch notes to the wiki. Patch notes now use the template {{Patch layout}} to keep their layout consistent.

Instructions

Creating a new article

1. New patch articles should use the name format Month DD, YYYY Patch. If the patch is for the Xbox, append (Xbox) to the end. Examples:

August 20, 2010 Patch or August 20, 2010 Patch (Xbox)

2. Copy and paste the following code:

{{Patch layout
| source =
| before =
| after  =

| notes  =

...

}}

3. Copy and paste the patch notes directly from the article on https://store.steampowered.com/news/ and format them like this:

* Fixed a bug with the game
* Updated cp_dustbowl
** Made it less spammy
** Fixed glitch
* Updated the game

=== Community requests ===
* Added a new cvar

4. Add the URL of the update page to the source line at the top like this:

| source = https://store.steampowered.com/news/4210/

5. Add the date of the previous patch to the before line like this:

| before = August 17, 2010 Patch

6. Add N/A to the after line.
7. Preview your article and if everything works fine hit Save page.

Updating the rest of the wiki

8. Go to Template:Updates and make sure patch-month and patch-day are all correct and up-to-date.
9. Go to the patch just before the new one and update its after line with a link to the latest patch:

| after = N/A on the old patch article now becomes | after = August 20, 2010 Patch (the date of the latest patch)

10. Go to the article on Patches and add the latest patch as a new item to the top of the list.
11. You're done.

Advanced

For more complicated patches.

• Handling two source links at once:

| source        = https://store.steampowered.com/news/4210/
| source-title  = Part 1
| source2       = https://store.steampowered.com/news/1234/
| source2-title = Part 2

• Handling update pages:

| update     = https://www.teamfortress.com/engineerupdate/
| updatelink = The Engineer Update

• Handling update pages in different languages (if necessary, use {{lang icon}}):

| update      = https://www.teamfortress.com/scoutupdate/german.htm
| updatelink  = Das Scout Update