Difference between revisions of "Help:Spoilers"

* The existence of the secret projects Brandon announced on March 1, 2022 is not considered a spoiler and may be mentioned freely on appropriate Coppermind pages.

* Any details about the projects are considered pre-release information and should not be mentioned outside of the pages about the books and a few auxiliary pages (e.g., the File page for a secret project's book cover will note as such).

* We cannot control search suggestions or search results for the Coppermind's own internal search. If the title of one of the secret projects starts with "Under" and you type "U" into the search bar, the title may appear as a search suggestion. And if you search for a word that appears somewhere on a secret project's book page, that page (its title and an excerpt of its content from around the matched search) will be included somewhere in the search results.

* Category pages like [[:Category: Books]] and some [[Special:SpecialPages|Special pages]] will include the titles of the books and some minor other details (e.g., if you find a book's entry on [[Special:LongPages|the list of pages by length]], it will also tell you how long, in bytes, the page currently is).

* Secret project book pages will be de-indexed from Google's search results. Google has sometimes been tricky about this in the past; if you notice such a page in Google search results, please let us know and we will do our best to get it fixed quickly.

* A preset has been added to the [[Special:TimeMachine|Time Machine]]'s drop-down menu to set it to before the secret projects were announced. Remember that the Time Machine has some limitations, which are discussed in the section below.

* Logged-in users can enable a gadget in the "Recent Changes" section of [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets|the gadgets tab of their preferences]] that will hide edits to the book pages for the secret projects on [[Special:RecentChanges|Recent Changes]] and [[Special:RelatedChanges|Related Changes]].

 

== The Time Machine ==

* If you are viewing an old version of a page (either through the Time Machine or otherwise), then clicking the "Edit" button on the page will load the edit window ''with the text of that old version''. Editing therefore should generally not be done with the Time Machine active, as it will incidentally revert changes to the page after that old version.

 

=== Pop-up ===

The first time someone visits the Coppermind and again after a new book releases, a notice with a warning about spoilers and a link to the [[Special:TimeMachine|Time Machine]] will cover the page they are on, requiring them to acknowledge the risk of spoilers before proceeding. This notice is served via [[MediaWiki:Common.js]].

 

=== Site notice ===

 

=== Spoiler notices ===

The red spoiler warnings placed on pages with information from a book that is still in its spoiler period are generated by the {{t|spoilers}} template. To add a spoiler warning, use {{t|spoilers|''first book code from [[Template:B]]''|''second book code from [[Template:B]]''|''etc.''}}. For example, if an article contains spoilers for ''[[{{b|sa3.5}}|{{b|sa3.5|text=y}}]]'', you would add {{t|spoilers|sa3.5}}. If spoilers from ''[[{{b|sa4}}]]'' are then added, you would change this to {{t|spoilers|sa3.5|sa4}} and, once the ''[[{{b|sa3.5}}|{{b|sa3.5|text=y}}]]'' spoiler period is over, you would then change this {{t|spoilers|sa4}}. Once the ''[[{{b|sa4}}]]'' spoiler period is over, the template can be removed completely (assuming new books haven't been added).

 

== Editing before a book is released ==