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Wanted!​

Images of puzzles, all of them, dead or alive!

The wiki really lacks images of all kinds. If you got a camera and a bunch of good looking puzzles and if you like to take pictures? Then go for it :)

What we need is bright images of puzzles on a uniform background, a clean white sheet is the best. The puzzles may show solved, scrambled, in a turn and so. The size of the images does not have to be that big, around 400 pixels squared is OK in most cases.

If you got the pics, then go to The upload page.

If you haven't got an account? then you must fix that first because the wiki is editable only to registred users

NOTE: Do not upload images you have not made yourself without permisson from the one who made it, it's against the copyright laws and we like the wiki to be clean.
 
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Hi, today I uploaded the pictures on Wikipedia for 2x2 through 7x7. So you don't need to worry about pictures of those. It is fine to take things from Wikipedia since it is by nature not copyrighted, but of course it is still common courtesy to provide a link back to the Wikipedia page and to say who the uploader/author of the original image is.
 
You might still want to ask the creator of the image whether you can use it.
What if they sue Speedsolving for it?
Still, it will be boring to see the same old images on wiki and speedsolving.
Unfortunately, I dont have a camera with me now, just my blurry handphone one..
 
You are right about that it is boring if we use the same images as wikipedia. I can add up info for the images you uploaded but I'm not sure what you want? =)

I made a copuple of copyright signs we can use to put at the image pages. There are three diffrent depending on level of copyright. Include any of these to the image pages:

{{IMGPD}} ... If the image is public domain
{{IMGGNU}} ... If it is a GNU licence image
{{IMGCP}} ... If the image is copyrighted but used by permission
 
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Hi, I made some ImageCube images for corners and all types of edges and centers on a NxN cube. I also added the information about all those types into the articles for Corner piece/Edge piece/Center piece. The primary article now has a lowercase p (Corner piece, not Corner Piece) to fit in with Wikipedia standards, and also I fixed all the redirects to reflect this.
 
In the form for registering a user name with the wiki, it says this under the email field:
E-mail address is optional, but it enables others to contact you through your user or user_talk page without needing to reveal your identity.
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Is it possible to change this to something like:

"E-mail address is optional, but it enables others to contact you through your user or user_talk page without needing to reveal your identity. Also, wiki edits will not be permitted without a confirmed E-mail address."?

I was confused for a little bit about how to add content until I read the post in this thread on the necessity of a confirmed email address.
 
Seeing as its already been bumped ... I've been using the Wiki (amongst other things) to find more fingertrick friendly OLL/PLL algs. It seems that quite a few algs are under the wrong section, for example I had this alg: y F R' F' R U R U' R' under OLL 24, when it should be under OLL 37.

I've fixed any errors I've found, but I suspect there are many more in the algs sections. If anyone has some spare time to kill it might be worth going through all the algs and checking them. Using tools like alg.garron.us could make this easier.

I would do it myself, but far too busy!
 
peterbat said:
In the form for registering a user name with the wiki, it says this under the email field:
E-mail address is optional, but it enables others to contact you through your user or user_talk page without needing to reveal your identity.
Click to expand...
Is it possible to change this to something like:

"E-mail address is optional, but it enables others to contact you through your user or user_talk page without needing to reveal your identity. Also, wiki edits will not be permitted without a confirmed E-mail address."?

I was confused for a little bit about how to add content until I read the post in this thread on the necessity of a confirmed email address.
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I'm glad you brought that up. I will make this change or allow anonymous editing again when I get some additional anti-spam system installed. I will get this done this weekend.

Cride5 said:
Seeing as its already been bumped ... I've been using the Wiki (amongst other things) to find more fingertrick friendly OLL/PLL algs. It seems that quite a few algs are under the wrong section, for example I had this alg: y F R' F' R U R U' R' under OLL 24, when it should be under OLL 37.

I've fixed any errors I've found, but I suspect there are many more in the algs sections. If anyone has some spare time to kill it might be worth going through all the algs and checking them. Using tools like alg.garron.us could make this easier.

I would do it myself, but far too busy!
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I have gone through some of the PLL's and edited any issues I've had. I'm glad you've fixed problems you've seen, as there is no way for one person to be able to make all the edits the wiki needs themselves.
 
WIKI Restructuring + New Methods List

Hi All,

You may have noticed the Wiki front page has been restructured a little, particularly in the puzzle methods section. Some of the sections have been moved around and a new Puzzle Hardware section has been added (given the popularity of the hardware forum).

I've, also added a Complete List of Methods for solving various puzzles, with links to corresponding Wiki pages and external websites. The information was compiled from the wiki, and this, and this thread. Despite its name, the list is by no means complete, so please do update it if you have any more info.

If you have any comments on the updates, please discuss below... :)
 
Sorry for the bump but can we have an alg database? not just OLL and PLL which we have right now but algs for BLD, pyraminx, megaminx, and square-1 EPs. It'd be nice to have algs to compare with. I don't mind adding the EPs.

EDIT: I just realized that there is already an alg database. But the puzzle is limited. Hopefully we can expand on that.
 
Neo63 said:
Sorry for the bump but can we have an alg database? not just OLL and PLL which we have right now but algs for BLD, pyraminx, megaminx, and square-1 EPs. It'd be nice to have algs to compare with. I don't mind adding the EPs.

EDIT: I just realized that there is already an alg database. But the puzzle is limited. Hopefully we can expand on that.
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