atlas/CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing

This project is open source, and contributions are welcome. In fact, the Atlas relies on user contributions.

You may contribute to the project by submitting a Pull Request on the GitHub repo or sending your submissions through Reddit. Other than that, you can get help from Discord or Reddit.

New Atlas entries

To contribute to the map, we require a certain format for artwork region and labels. This can be generated on the drawing mode on the website.

To add a new entry, go to the drawing mode and draw a shape/polygon around the region you'd like to describe. You can use the Undo, Redo, and Reset buttons to help you creating a good polygon. Make sure that the lines you're drawing don't form a self-intersecting polygon.

Multiple periods can be added to represent the changing state of the artwork on different times. You can set the start and end period, as well as chosing the appropriate canvas variations. You can also copy the polygon from one period to the other, duplicating a period to be edited later, as well as deleting a period (if there is more than one). An alert is also shown if there are errors for assistance.

When you're happy with the shape you've drawn, press Finish. You will now be able to enter some information about the highlighted region:

• Name: A short, descriptive name.
• Description: A short description that will also be understood by somebody not familiar with the topic. Usually, the first sentence on Wikipedia is a good example.
• Links: Some links that's either most relevant to the topic, or that was responsible for creating the artwork.
  • Website: If you're describing a project, the project's main website would be suitable here.
  • Subreddit: Format it like r/subreddit.
  • Discord: Write the invite code, that the invite link without the discord.gg/ part.
  • Wiki: The page title of The r/place Wiki.

All fields but the name are optional. For example, a country flag doesn't necessarily need a description.

Once you've entered all the information, you'll be presented with a pop-up window containing some JSON-formatted submission data. Depending on the method, there are two preferred methods.

Through Reddit

You can press the Post Direct to Reddit button, which will open a page with the title and body already been filled for you. You don't need to change anything what has been prepared.

If that didn't work, copy the entire JSON text and create a new text post on the subreddit. You don't need to add any other text; just directly send the data.

Remember to flair your post with New Entry. On New Reddit, click the Flair button on the bottom part, and select New Entry. On Old Reddit, click the select button on the "choose a flair" section instead.

Through GitHub

If you know about Git and how to create a pull request on GitHub, you can try create a patch that will be merged, along with other patches, by one of the members.

You can try pressing the Submit Direct to GitHub button, which will open a page with the patch file already been prepared to you. If you haven't forked the repository, you would need to fork it with the provided instruction shown on the page. You may add attribution by adding an _author key, explained in the next paragraphs. After that, you can press Submit changes, add follow the steps to create a pull request within GitHub.

If you can fork and clone the repository, you can use the provided tools/create_patch.py script. This script helps you to create a working patch, along with additional data such as your name for attribution sakes. Simply run the script inside the tools/ folder and follow the given instructions.

If you want to do this manually (e.g. you don't have Python), you can create a patch by creating a .json file inside data/patches, with the content of the JSON-formatted data that is given earlier. You may add attribution by adding an _author key with the value of your Reddit username or your GitHub username plus a gh: prefix.

{
	"id": 0, 
	// ...
	"_author": "Hans5958_",
	// or...
	"_author": "gh:Hans5958",
}

Once you have successfully created the patch, the file can be committed, and a pull request towards the cleanup branch can be created. A member will merge the pull request if it is adequate.

Edits to Atlas entries

Other than adding new ones, you can edit existing atlas entries.

Using the web interface

You can use the website to edit single entries easily. On the website, click Edit on an entry box. Afterwards, you are now on the drawing mode, editing the entry, in which you can follow the same instructions as when creating a new entry.

Upon submitting, if you use Reddit, please flair it as Edit Entry instead. The method stays the same if you use GitHub.

As an alternative, you can also submit an issue on GitHub using this form or report it on our Discord server.

Manually

Edits are also welcome on this repository using Git through GitHub. You may use Git or GitHub for bulk or large-scale changes, such as removing duplicates.

web/atlas.json is where the Atlas data is located, in which you can edit on GitHub. The next section includes an example of an entry.

Upon creating a fork of this repository and pushing the changes, create a pull request towards the cleanup branch. A member will merge the pull request if it is adequate.

To help find duplicates, use the Overlap mode.

Example

Hereforth is an example of the structured data. The example has been expanded, but please save it in the way so each line is an entry which is minified. The aformatter.py script can help you with this.

{
	"id": "tu203o",
	"name": "An entry",
	"description": "This is an entry, it is remarkable.",
	"links": {
		"subreddit": ["placeAtlas2", "subreddit1", "subreddit2"],
		"discord": ["pJkm23b2nA"],
		"website": ["https://example.com"],
		"wiki": ["An_Entry", "An_Entry_2"]
	},
	"path": {
		"109-166, T:0-1": [
			[1527, 1712],
			[1625, 1712],
			[1625, 1682]
		]
	},
	"center": {
		"109-166, T:0-1": [1639, 1754]
	}
}

109-166, T:0-1 has this meaning.

• 109-166: Default canvas variation (r/place), period 109 to 166.
• T:0-1: "The Final Clean" canvas variation, period 0 (The Final Clean) to 1 (Unofficial Corrections).

Development

Other than contributing to the Atlas data, code contributions are also accepted. Here are some information regarding some aspects on the repository.

Web interface

This website is built using classic HTML 5 (no JS frameworks such as Vue, React, etc are used). Bootstrap 5 is used as a CSS framework.

Opening the HTML file on your browser is adequate enough to edit. If it doesn't work, you can try running a local HTTP server.

# Run it inside the web/ folder.
cd web 

# Choose one of the following.
# Python 2
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
# Python 3
python -m http.server 8000
# Node.js (http-server)
npx http-server
# Node.js (serve)
npx serve

Tools

The tools folder have various scripts for the maintainance of the project, such as...

• Adding submitted entries from the subreddit
• Formatting/tidying up the data
• Building the site for production

The tools are built using either Node.js and/or Python (3).