Football Manager Wiki

[CaptainPlanet]

Welcome to Football Manager Wiki!

At footballmanagerwiki.co.uk we pride ourselves on having some of the highest quality articles throughout the world of Football Manager. With guides on teams, graphics, editing and other essential Football Manager information, you can be sure that you will never need to look anywhere else. This site was set up by various members on the SI Forums to give fans of the game a chance to develop their knowledge on the game. For any questions regarding this website, feel free to ask in this thread.

We welcome all edits providing users are knowledgeable on the topic they are editing and all edits are completed with utmost maturity.

Signing up
It is necessary to sign up before making any edits at this time due to anonymous users abusing the system in the early days of this site.

Starting a new page
Type whatever you want to name the page in the search bar and hit 'go'. Then click 'create new page'.

Categorising Pages
After making your page, it's very important that you put the page in the correct category so that it will show up on the index page of the appropriate category. What you need to do to categorise your page is stick one (or more if necessary!) of these at the end of your page:

[[Category:Club Guides]]
[[Category:Player Profiles]]
[[Category:Nation Guides]]
[[Category:Player Profiles]]
[[Category:Non-Player Profiles]]
[[Category:Gameplay]]
[[Category:Graphics and Skinning]]
[[Category:Technical]]
[[Category:Stadia]]
[[Category:Game Releases]]
[[Category:Miscellaneous]]
[[Category:Challenges]]
[[Category:English Leagues]]
[[Category:UEFA Competitions]]
[[Category:Coca-Cola Championship - League 2 Clubs]]
[[Category:English Lower League Clubs]]
[[Category:English Premier League Clubs]]
[[Category:French Clubs]]
[[Category:Italian Clubs]]
[[Category:Other European Clubs]]

Stub Tags
These are to be used on pages you feel lack content in one way or another. To use them put {{stub}} on the page you feel should be tagged. Stub index.

Guides on making wiki pages
Player Profiles
Club Guides

Help with wiki commands
=Main Header=
This header is the same size as the page title header. I wouldn't use it unless the page requires quite a lot of sub-categories, like this page for example.

==Secondary Header==
Most commonly used header.

===Another smaller header===
Use this when making a point linked to the one made in the secondary header.

Inserting Tables

{| border="1"
|'''Team'''
|'''Date'''
|-
|Argentina  
|1 August
|-
|Barbados 
|19 September
|-
|}

If you were to type this into a wiki page, the result would be like so:


Embedding Images
Not possible at this time due to lack of space. We will update this page when the issue has been resolved.

Thanks!

[peter-evo]

I will do what I can CP, good idea

[shevelevee]

We start to do our local wiki last autumn.
http://fmfan.ru/wiki/

If you want I can help you with ideas, but I need some free time to translate it))

[ahmufcwafc]

I'd be glad to help anyone with their wiki sites.

[pnefc22]

We could just get a different free one and see if that improves it.

I just spent an hour writing out my first articles.

[ahmufcwafc]

We could just get a different free one and see if that improves it.

I just spent an hour writing out my first articles.

Well yeah that's what I'd prefer if it's possible to find a suitable site.

Thanks for putting so much time into the articles. Could you put them up on the site if you're done?

[GillsMan]

http://footballmanager.wikia.com

[CaptainPlanet]

http://footballmanager.wikia.com

A tad out of date?

[GillsMan]

A tad out of date?

Why not edit it to make it in date then?

[Dicko99]

Chris Kamara one of the star players of fm08

[Insert_Goal_Here]

A really good idea, plenty of games have their own dedicated Wiki's

[ahmufcwafc]

Well, you could always just start working on the articles on that site CP. It would take less effort since there are quite a few articles written up already.

But it's all up to you really.

[MeLikeFM]

that site is a bit out of date

i would love a FMwiki

[CaptainPlanet]

Ok, my fault, I thought you were directing me to the fact that someone is already doing it rather than "here's the basis, see if you can improve on it". Apologies.

Looks like a good place to start

[GillsMan]

There's a lot of very knowledgable users here, so if you all collaborate I'm sure the wiki will be full in no time.

[weeeman27bob]

I haven't got much happening this week so I'd be willing to help out in the short term and probably the long term too.

Count me in.

[CrashOverride]

Id be more than willing to donate what little knowledge i posses to this.

[ftg87]

I'm up for helping with this any way that I can CP

[hamilton162]

I'll help whenever i haven't got to revise for exams etc. Count me in as well

[jod123]

I'll help as well if I can.

[pnefc22]

I will help.

Will in includde the CM's before the split?(I think that it should)

Will it have its own domain?

[ahmufcwafc]

I will help.

Will in includde the CM's before the split?(I think that it should)

Will it have its own domain?

Have a look at the wiki site that GillsMan linked to & look at the full list of articles. It seems to be a wiki for all things from the FM/CM series.

[Severus_steaua]

a Fm wiki would be successful with tactics and frameworks,with player personalities and lots of lots of stuff

[Celtic_1967]

Count me in on this CP

[torsportsfan]

I have started editing the wiki a little bit, working on the star players section

[Danny Forest]

Has that got 09 on it

[peter-evo]

That looks very odd, why not start from scratch?

[torsportsfan]

I think we should have some info and if they choose to start from scratch, we can just move the text over

[ahmufcwafc]

I think we should have some info and if they choose to start from scratch, we can just move the text over

I don't think we'd be allowed to just copy & paste information from other websites if that's what you mean.

[peter-evo]

Just right it out word-by-word then?

[ahmufcwafc]

Just write it out word-by-word then?

That wouldn't make any difference. Sure if you're going to do that, you might as well copy & paste

I'm unsure as to whether we're allowed to copy anything from these forums, but I'd assume that we wouldn't be allowed unless we had permission from the creator.

[peter-evo]

That wouldn't make any difference. Sure if you're going to do that, you might as well copy & paste

I'm unsure as to whether we're allowed to copy anything from these forums, but I'd assume that we wouldn't be allowed unless we had permission from the creator.

I don't know, surely they can not prove you took it from the site if you wrote it word-by-word?

[ahmufcwafc]

I don't know, surely they can not prove you took it from the site if you wrote it word-by-word?

I know, but it's just not right taking credit for someone else's work. I know that I'd be angry if someone did it to me.

[peter-evo]

I suppose, just posting my legal knowledge mwuahahaha.

Be best to ask for the writers permission before posting anything from there.

[TheOriginalJez]

If you took, say, a Harry Potter e-book, typed it out word for word and printed it you still couldn't sell it as your own. It'd just be a colossal waste of time. Whenever you copy something of note it's always best to ask the author first, however on forums, unless specifically noted, there is no expectation of protection of rights - you're releasing what you type into the public domain essentially. You could still take legal action if your stuff is copied but it's unlikely to get very far. Wikis often have disclaimers relating to variants of the GNU (/FSF) GPL, so that any work submitted may be copied and used without explicit permission under the terms of that license - assumin that the person owns the rights to the work they are submitting.

[torsportsfan]

If anyone wants to add to this http://footballmanager.wikia.com/wik...ame_Run_Faster your welcome to, its pretty bad I know, but its a start

[peter-evo]

Have set one up, will make a few pages before releasing it to the animals

[weeeman27bob]

Would probably be better to start from scratch and make our own one rather than trying to revamp someone else's.

[peter-evo]

Would probably be better to start from scratch and make our own one rather than trying to revamp someone else's.

Have done, just doing some editing first

[weeeman27bob]

Have done, just doing some editing first

How's the editing going?

Ready to show us what you've done?

[ahmufcwafc]

How's the editing going?

Ready to show us what you've done?

Here it is. We don't have that many articles & it's still a little rough around the edges, but we hope to have that sorted soon enough.

Any help would be much appreciated.

[rancer890]

Great idea. I'm in.

I'll start on the league pages (namely MLS and Chinese Super League)

[peter-evo]

Great idea. I'm in.

I'll start on the league pages (namely MLS and Chinese Super League)

How on earth did you find it?

[rancer890]

How on earth did you find it?

Ah peter, I have ways.

I better copy my MLS article onto word. Stayed up all night to do it.

[muncherdave]

It's a pretty good idea to get this up and running properly I'd say, because it's a lot easier trying to find info on there than it would be raking through a billion topics on here with the search engine

[shevelevee]

Be best to ask for the writers permission before posting anything from there.

offtopic:

First of all, may I ask any of writers -
"Do you post your posts here under any license (such as Creative Commons or others)? If you don't want to distribute your articles - don't post it here. If you want to distribute it under license - feel free."

Simply I thinks that it's copyrights' paranoya))

Excuse my English))

[peter-evo]

Nearly, look for a thread on it.

[ahmufcwafc]

Nearly, look for a thread on it.

You mean this one, right?

[weeeman27bob]

KK, I'll try and help as best I can!

[hamilton162]

I'll do an article on L2 teams as i suppport Wycombe Wanderers and go to most games home and away, so i know quite a lot about L2. Anyone want to help with teams such as Barnet, Morcambe and Lincon City. Post if you can help me with any info for League 2.

Cheers

Hamilton162

[peter-evo]

Yep, confused myself!

[ahmufcwafc]

Remember to add the links to your articles on the front page when you're finished

[hamilton162]

Remember to add the links to your articles on the front page when you're finished

Can't register at the mo because it comes up with an error. I will start tommorrow.

[peter-evo]

What error?

[hamilton162]

It says please try again later sort of thing

[peter-evo]

It says please try again later sort of thing

When you register or access the wiki?

[hamilton162]

when i try and register

[weeeman27bob]

it was just really slow for me, but I'm now registered and making an article.

[ahmufcwafc]

it was just really slow for me, but I'm now registered and making an article.

I know, it's really slow for me too. I'd move it if I knew of any faster wiki sites. Do you know of any others?

[hamilton162]

Nope, i don't unfortunately

[ahmufcwafc]

Okay, now the site is down completely. I think it's best it move it to another wiki site, so I'll have a look to find a suitable new home for it.

[weeeman27bob]

Okay, now the site is down completely. I think it's best it move it to another wiki site, so I'll have a look to find a suitable new home for it.

I just spent ages writing an article about buying players.

[pnefc22]

It's working but could we not just get a free domain and start from scratch there.

[jod123]

Don't worry, weeeman27bob, you can just copy it over as the site is back up again. I made sure just now to copy my 2 articles into a text document on my computer incase that wiki goes down again. I already lost most of the Manager Photo article once after the wiki messed up but luckily that was mostly just copy and paste from one of my posts on here.

[weeeman27bob]

lol. Ok I will do.

[TheOriginalJez]

Gimme £20 every few months to host it and I'll give you a proper one can't afford anymore freebies though unfortunately so you might be able to find a better offer hah

[ahmufcwafc]

It seems to work fine now, it was all down to site traffic I guess. I'd still like to have a more stable site, so I'll think about your offer Jez

[TheOriginalJez]

I don't think you should really be considering paying for anything right now tbh, you don't have the content to deliver. Get a sizable chunk done and if it's still dodgy then maybe

[ahmufcwafc]

Yeah I know, I didn't mean I wanted to pay now! What I meant to say was that if it does turn out to be a success (which is unlikely to be honest), I might consider paying for decent bandwith. But me being the cheapskate that I am, I'd probably back out of it

[peter-evo]

There is no guarantee it will do well so paying now would be crazy, plus I am skint.

[ahmufcwafc]

weeman27bob - sorry if I might have confused you earlier. The wiki was only down temporarily. It's back now.

[small Mac]

There is no guarantee it will do well so paying now would be crazy, plus I am skint.

I agree, it's a bit risky and this is something that could work without needing people to pay money, as good as their intentions are.

[peter-evo]

I agree, it's a bit risky and this is something that could work without needing people to pay money, as good as their intentions are.

Yes, I agree entirely. I don't think the traffic will be anything near needing a new place for it!

[ahmufcwafc]

So what's the general concensus then? Should we look for a new site or just leave it as it is for now?

[peter-evo]

I see no problem with it now to be honest.

[rancer890]

Added a bit to my MLS page. Will slowly but surely finish it soon.

[peter-evo]

Added a bit to my MLS page. Will slowly but surely finish it soon.

It is fantastic mate, I presume you didn't write it all yourself but it is great. Weemanbob, yours is too.

[rancer890]

It is fantastic mate, I presume you didn't write it all yourself but it is great. Weemanbob, yours is too.

Well, I found stuff from wikipedia MLS page that really helped, although the explanation of the draft was done all by myself.

[peter-evo]

Well, I found stuff from wikipedia MLS page that really helped, although the explanation of the draft was done all by myself.

Congrats none the less

So what are the first impressions then?

[jod123]

Well, I found stuff from wikipedia MLS page that really helped, although the explanation of the draft was done all by myself.

Yeah that is a great article. I bet the part about Toronto having the biggest fanbase was done by yourself.

I think it is good so far. Obviously there is more articles to be done and some are not fully completed yet but it still has potential to be a great FM resource.

[rancer890]

Yeah that is a great article. I bet the part about Toronto having the biggest fanbase was done by yourself.

I think it is good so far. Obviously there is more articles to be done and some are not fully completed yet but it still has potential to be a great FM resource.

Ah, someone noticed the slight bias in my article.

I'm not done yet. Still need to talk about MLS rivalries, and competitions like the US Open Cup, Superliga, and CONCACAF Champions League. But I will finish those parts soon.

[jod123]

If someone knew of a better one that was free then I would say go for that but if not then I think we should leave it.

[small Mac]

Maybe see how well the current site does first. If it's a big hit then there is always the option of moving to a better one in the future.