Hi everyone,
As you may have realized, CivFanatics recently converted the main site to a more flexible content management system. Because of this, individual users are now able to create content on their own (although it still has to go through "moderation" -- that is, there's a delay before your content becomes visible for quality control purposes). This new ability has specific implications for the War Academies: it means that individual users can add their own articles, thereby transforming the War Academy into a more fluid, up-to-date assembly of articles. Additionally, I believe it's possible for users to update their own current articles in the War Academies, as articles have their respective author's name as the "author" of that page (or so I think. I haven't tested it out yet, though, so some confirmation would be much appreciated.)
Here's how you can get involved: by going to the War Academy page, click the category you think is most appropriate. Then, select "Add child page" in the bottom right hand corner, and give it a title, category tags (Civilization III and Strategy are the default, but can be added in later, so it's no big deal.) Next, just copy over the body of your post (vB codes work fine). Optionally, you can give it a URL, but that's subject to change (I'll look over your article before approving it). Once you're done, just preview hit and press submit. I might view your article on the forum to see what the response of other members is, but other than that, it's pretty easy. Hopefully this makes keeping the War Academy updated much easier.
Let me know how this works out for you, particularly if you're interested in trying it out at this moment (either by adding a new article, or trying to update one of your old ones). I'm curious to see how well this works. Feel free to post any comments you might have in this thread...
As you may have realized, CivFanatics recently converted the main site to a more flexible content management system. Because of this, individual users are now able to create content on their own (although it still has to go through "moderation" -- that is, there's a delay before your content becomes visible for quality control purposes). This new ability has specific implications for the War Academies: it means that individual users can add their own articles, thereby transforming the War Academy into a more fluid, up-to-date assembly of articles. Additionally, I believe it's possible for users to update their own current articles in the War Academies, as articles have their respective author's name as the "author" of that page (or so I think. I haven't tested it out yet, though, so some confirmation would be much appreciated.)
Here's how you can get involved: by going to the War Academy page, click the category you think is most appropriate. Then, select "Add child page" in the bottom right hand corner, and give it a title, category tags (Civilization III and Strategy are the default, but can be added in later, so it's no big deal.) Next, just copy over the body of your post (vB codes work fine). Optionally, you can give it a URL, but that's subject to change (I'll look over your article before approving it). Once you're done, just preview hit and press submit. I might view your article on the forum to see what the response of other members is, but other than that, it's pretty easy. Hopefully this makes keeping the War Academy updated much easier.
Let me know how this works out for you, particularly if you're interested in trying it out at this moment (either by adding a new article, or trying to update one of your old ones). I'm curious to see how well this works. Feel free to post any comments you might have in this thread...
