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2000 AD => Wiki => Topic started by: VinceBot on 19 January, 2010, 04:49:53 PM

Title: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: VinceBot on 19 January, 2010, 04:49:53 PM
http://wiki.2000adonline.com/ (http://wiki.2000adonline.com/)

Yes, we now have a Wiki for the community to fill up with all things 2000AD!

It doesn't feature on the front page or have any links to it on the flashy banner, but thats a technical issue rather than laziness. While it's in beta and contains hardly any original data it'll stay off the front page.
Hopefully you guys can adopt the Wiki and before long it'll be up there alongside the News button.

The stickied thread (http://2000adonline.com/forum/index.php/topic,27317.0.html) explains the majority of all things related to interaction, so give that a read if you've never used a Wiki before, or want to know whats special about this one.



Where we're at

I've spent the last week setting up a converter to grab all the data from the Vault and jam it into the Wiki - 99% of the data make it unharmed, but there are still some sketchy elements. If you spot any, feel free to fix them.

Progs, Megs, Creators, Characters and Series all use templates to organise their data. You can see this by going into a Prog and hitting the "Edit" tab.
I'd like to keep all progs, megs, specials and graphic novels using these kinds of templates, so please keep using them where possible.

All articles are missing data, or have terribe, terrible images. Feel free to browse through characters and series and things and update their pictures, or fill out their statistics and whatnot.

Stories, all 3,319 of them, are missing a synopsis and list of character appearances.

Speaking of character appearances, feel free to name or create articles for not only main characters but bit-part characters and villains and things. The Wiki, unlike the Vault, has room for everyone.

Progs and Megazines all need their Captial field filling out, which is the prominent themed text line that features on the front of the cover.

All specials and graphic novels need adding, even by name. If you happen to have a 2000AD graphic novel set next to you, type in the title into the address bar and create a new page for it.



Finally..

Don't get angry or moan about other peoples utilisation of the Wiki - its a collaborative effort and anyone can edit it, including you. If you spot claring mistakes, feel free to change them.

Be civil, be patient, and report any problems you can't fix yourself.


Have fun guys, I hope you can make something good out of this.

http://wiki.2000adonline.com/ (http://wiki.2000adonline.com/)
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: TordelBack on 19 January, 2010, 04:53:03 PM
You utter bastard Vince, I have a family and a mortgage.
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 19 January, 2010, 04:56:29 PM
I'm with Tordelback, my family will put out a missing persons report for me now. HELP!
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: uncle fester on 19 January, 2010, 04:56:55 PM
Oooohhh! But where to start???
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: James Stacey on 19 January, 2010, 04:59:33 PM
Bravo sir, boundary!
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: VinceBot on 19 January, 2010, 04:59:45 PM
Glad you fear for your spare time ;)

The "recent changes" page seems to be broken somehow. I'm looking into it.
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: w3bz on 19 January, 2010, 05:01:15 PM
I'm going to be watching this unfold with a mixture of glee and dread on my face...

...there is no smiley to express that...
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: Gavin_Leahy_Block on 19 January, 2010, 05:04:57 PM
There's so much to do and there are so few of us, we had better get to work then. Well done, to all involved in its creation.
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: w3bz on 19 January, 2010, 05:08:12 PM
Quote from: Gavin_Leahy on 19 January, 2010, 05:04:57 PM
There's so much to do and there are so few of us, we had better get to work then. Well done, to all involved in its creation.

<-- points at VinceBot :D

(*pats self on back for not unnecessarily expiring droid due to overwork*)
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: VinceBot on 19 January, 2010, 05:18:57 PM
I've worked out the Recent Changes issue is due to the Liquid Threads extension, but I can't find any information on it. It might simply be a case of updating to te latest version, but it's not going to get done until tomorrow.
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 19 January, 2010, 05:31:03 PM
"Bring out the geeks"

"But the geeks are sleeping"

"Well, you better just go wake them"
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: Emperor on 19 January, 2010, 05:41:37 PM
The link here said presents!!

I don't seem to be able to log in - it takes me to the forum login, I log in and it takes me to the forum main page and the wiki doesn't seem to recognise me as being logged in.

Also - is there room for things like Class of '79, Dogbreath or Zarjaz in there? There is a section for the small press feature (http://wiki.2000adonline.com/index.php/Small_Press) in the Meg and it might help with that too.
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: pauljholden on 19 January, 2010, 06:25:32 PM
I want to contribute, but, like Emperor, I'm in an endless need to login/already logged in loop...

Very excited though, AT LAST, 2000AD individual issues can link to online reviews AND the clickwheel website for downloading those issues. Which means I can point someone from my website to 2000AD work I've done and give them a chance to buy it!

HURRAH!

-pj
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: TordelBack on 19 January, 2010, 06:39:06 PM
Surely the most pressing issue is how we get this thread http://2000adonline.com/forum/index.php/topic,27333.0/topicseen.html  (http://2000adonline.com/forum/index.php/topic,27333.0/topicseen.html) uploaded in its entirety to the Sláine section. 
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: Colin YNWA on 19 January, 2010, 06:54:45 PM
I fear for my job...
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: Dog Deever on 19 January, 2010, 07:55:44 PM
Quote from: VinceBot
Finally..

Don't get angry or moan about other peoples utilisation of the Wiki - its a collaborative effort and anyone can edit it, including you. If you spot claring mistakes, feel free to change them.

Be civil, be patient, and report any problems you can't fix yourself.


That would be 'glaring mistakes', yeah?
:D
You did ask!
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: w3bz on 19 January, 2010, 08:59:07 PM
Quote from: Dog Deever on 19 January, 2010, 07:55:44 PM
Quote from: VinceBot
Finally..

Don't get angry or moan about other peoples utilisation of the Wiki - its a collaborative effort and anyone can edit it, including you. If you spot claring mistakes, feel free to change them.

Be civil, be patient, and report any problems you can't fix yourself.


That would be 'glaring mistakes', yeah?
:D
You did ask!

*cough* - haha  :lol:
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: Dandontdare on 19 January, 2010, 09:47:52 PM
WHERE ARE THE PRESENTS?  >:(

I feel misled by that banner. And no, the satisfaction of helping the community is NOT a present. Money, cakes and alcohol are presents.
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: Steve Green on 19 January, 2010, 10:20:29 PM
Just waiting for Robin to bring the madness of timelines and continuity... :)
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 19 January, 2010, 10:59:02 PM
Personally, I'm looking forward to the entry regarding the population of MC-1.
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: VinceBot on 19 January, 2010, 11:23:14 PM
Not sure about the login loop, when you go back to the wiki try pressing ctrl-f5, or shift-f5 to force a refresh.

I'll take a look at it tomorrow morning, and hopefully I can fix it in a better way.
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: House of Usher on 19 January, 2010, 11:35:39 PM
This sounds brilliant. But until retirement, the older I get the more responsibilities and the less free time. and I don't even have kids!
:lol:

I will have a go at this one day. I had plenty of wiki practice on Uncyclopaedia back when I had an office job that gave me unrealistic objectives and unlimited internet access, unlike the office job I have now.
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 19 January, 2010, 11:46:58 PM
ascii wangs comin' your way!!!
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: Pete Wells on 20 January, 2010, 07:43:45 AM
Gah, it's hard enough trying to do a blog entry a week! I'll be happy to help out though in those scant few minutes I get to myself each month...
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: pauljholden on 20 January, 2010, 11:50:26 AM
Any chance of there being page counts added to the series templates - eg

http://wiki.2000adonline.com/index.php/A_Bullet_In_The_Head - I'd like to add the total number of pages for each episode...

-pj
(Yes, this is nerdy, I'm sorry)
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: VinceBot on 20 January, 2010, 11:52:30 AM
It's already in there - edit the page and you'll find

| Part_1_Pages       =


Part is synonymous with episode.
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: pauljholden on 20 January, 2010, 12:06:03 PM
Ah cool - didn't see it for some reason!

-pj
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: W. R. Logan on 20 January, 2010, 12:23:43 PM
just hit random page and got took to Meg 219 with a cover image of Prog 219.

Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: VinceBot on 20 January, 2010, 12:26:05 PM
D'oh. Looks like the import didn't add a prefix to the numbered issues and Progs have overwritten Megs.

I'll see if I can do a batch update of the Megs.
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: Dan Kelly on 20 January, 2010, 01:08:03 PM
Don't seem to be able to login - just dumps me back here and when I return to the Wiki still need to login.

On Safari if that helps...
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: pauljholden on 20 January, 2010, 01:09:17 PM
Try logging out of the 2000AD website and then logging back in. Worked for me (also on safari)

-pj
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: Proudhuff on 20 January, 2010, 01:18:00 PM
I fear for my fellow geeks...
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: Mike Carroll on 20 January, 2010, 02:29:08 PM
Hi Vincebot,

Loving this so far! But is there a proper way to link back from a story to the prog (or meg) in which it appears?

- Mike
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: VinceBot on 20 January, 2010, 02:35:05 PM
There's no way set up to link back from a particular episode to a particular prog, however under a story (such as A Bullet In The Head (http://wiki.2000adonline.com/index.php/A_Bullet_In_The_Head)) you'll notice on the right hand side in the InfoBox is a "Featured in - X Publications" link, which bring up a category showing each publication the story has featured in.. which I hope fully include any reprits of that story, too.

If you need to link to/from a story/publication for any reason, just use a regular link.
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: Mike Carroll on 20 January, 2010, 02:40:07 PM
Ah! Gotcha!
Thanks Vince!
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: Grant Goggans on 20 January, 2010, 06:07:58 PM
One of the many reasons this is great is that I've been wanting to unload Touched By the Hand of Tharg for some months now - the inability to get progs last year was a big factor, and now I can simply copy over everything (slowly!) and add a little code, and leave it behind for somebody else to carry on.  I'm starting with ABC Warriors:

http://wiki.2000adonline.com/index.php/A.B.C._Warriors_%28series%29

Thanks, VinceBot!
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: CraveNoir on 20 January, 2010, 09:24:08 PM
Hmm. tried adding trivia to the Oz story, and it appears in the trivia of all stories!
Appear to have edited the story template!
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: Dan Kelly on 20 January, 2010, 10:23:19 PM
Cheers PJ, that seemed to work

(Log out of forum, go to Wiki, login, return to Wiki - all good)
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: pauljholden on 20 January, 2010, 10:24:28 PM
Yeah, seems that if you hit 'EDIT' within the body of a subject (esp if based on a template) then the template itself becomes editable. Which is weird and annoying.

You need to hit 'EDIT' at the top of the entry - where it says PAGE | DISCUSSION | EDIT


-pj
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: Mike Carroll on 21 January, 2010, 01:27:21 AM
Got the number of Sl�ines down to 224... That's enough for tonight, I think!

-- Mike
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: pauljholden on 21 January, 2010, 09:10:20 AM
Bit weird this, but are are the flash navigation buttons not working when you're in the wiki? (work fine in every other location, but the wiki leaves the button unresponsive)

Also: can something be done in the backend to fix all those Slaines? (rather than Mad Mike Carroll editing every single entry - you mad man...)

-pj
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: VinceBot on 21 January, 2010, 09:24:22 AM
Unfortunately not - wiki media stores the data as a binary BLOB, so there's no query or script I can run. I'd have to set up a bot to locate and change them, which I unfortunately havn't got time to do.

Still, only 224 to go. You can do eet.

Quote from: pauljholden on 20 January, 2010, 10:24:28 PM
Yeah, seems that if you hit 'EDIT' within the body of a subject (esp if based on a template) then the template itself becomes editable. Which is weird and annoying.

Oh wow, that's annoying. I can't see a way to fix it without locking down the template though.

Quote from: pauljholden on 21 January, 2010, 09:10:20 AM
Bit weird this, but are are the flash navigation buttons not working when you're in the wiki? (work fine in every other location, but the wiki leaves the button unresponsive)

They use relative paths, which was fine for www.2000adonline.com but on wiki.2000adonline.com the destination doesn't exist, so the buttons don't work.
As I said before, there's a technical issue with updating the banner - we're working to get it sorted out but it might be a while before we can fix the links or get the Wiki added to it.
For now, you can use the links at the very top of the page in the red bar to navigate if you need to.
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: pauljholden on 21 January, 2010, 11:53:52 AM
Do you think adding an automatic link to click wheel would be worth doing for the issue template?

The following, should link via the issue number for individual progs:

http://www.clickwheel.net/features/219?query={{{Issue}}}

(and if clickwheel ever change how they work then, at least, in the template, it should be easy changed?)

The link may have to say something like "Check ClickWheel for Availability of Digital Download" (just in case the prog isn't on there...)

Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: VinceBot on 21 January, 2010, 11:55:29 AM
I'm amazed that works and din't know about it, so sure. I'll fudge it into the template.

Edit: Done, added as a "See Also" link. Only shows on progs that are edited from here onward.
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: Mike Carroll on 21 January, 2010, 12:19:07 PM
Yay! Sl�ines all done - someone was working up the list while I was working down!

What do I win?

-- Mike
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: The Monarch on 21 January, 2010, 12:19:22 PM
thou shalt not touch the canon fodder for that is my realm....

Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: VinceBot on 21 January, 2010, 12:23:04 PM
Quote from: Mike Carroll on 21 January, 2010, 12:19:07 PM
Yay! Sl�ines all done - someone was working up the list while I was working down!

What do I win?

I worked on the last 15 or so ;) You did 99% of the work.

And you win... a mention on the todo page's completed tasks list (http://wiki.2000adonline.com/index.php/2000_AD_Online_Wiki:Todo).
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: Mike Carroll on 21 January, 2010, 12:27:26 PM
Woohoo!

However, I don't think we're quite out of the haunted woods yet: searching for "Slaine" doesn't return entries where it's spelled "Sláine".

Likewise, some of the story titles are spelled "Slaine" (e.g., "Slaine: The Horned God"). So should those titles also be changed to "Sláine"?

-- Mike

Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: VinceBot on 21 January, 2010, 12:34:20 PM
Depends what mood you're in. Story titles don't matter so much and might be more trouble than they're worth.

Slaine and Sláine are technically different, so the search results are correct (they shouldn't be ignorant of unicode). It's a bit of a bugger if you don't know, I guess, but I don't think there's any way to fix it.
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: VinceBot on 21 January, 2010, 02:13:16 PM
Hey Mike, I noticed you deleted the content out of the "Back to the F##uhrer" page with the correupted name, then created it anew in "Back to the Fuhrer".

In future, instead of blanking the source page you can just click the "move" tab and change the name to what it should be, then change the data in the page to match. this will keep the modification history.

I'll sort out a template people can include which can be used to mark pages for deletion.
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: Batman's Superior Cousin on 21 January, 2010, 03:02:37 PM
Quote from: VinceBot on 19 January, 2010, 04:49:53 PM
http://wiki.2000adonline.com/ (http://wiki.2000adonline.com/)
Speaking of character appearances, feel free to name or create articles for not only main characters but bit-part characters and villains and things. The Wiki, unlike the Vault, has room for everyone.
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Just wondering what category to put all that stuff into and whether we should copy (slightly or not) from Wikipedia.
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: Emperor on 21 January, 2010, 03:06:32 PM
Quote from: VinceBot on 21 January, 2010, 12:34:20 PMSlaine and Sláine are technically different, so the search results are correct (they shouldn't be ignorant of unicode). It's a bit of a bugger if you don't know, I guess, but I don't think there's any way to fix it.

Redirects. They are awfully handy for picking up such variations in spelling and where there are accents, like this case. A button for them should be available in an extended version of the editing tool bar you get across the top of the page.

I added some now, so searching for "Slaine" will get you to the disambiguation page, searching for "slaine series" will take you to the series and [[Slaine (series)|Slaine]] will create a link to the series article.
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: Hoagy on 21 January, 2010, 03:11:30 PM
Awesome. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: Emperor on 21 January, 2010, 03:15:33 PM
Quote from: Batman's Superior Cousin on 21 January, 2010, 03:02:37 PMJust wondering what category to put all that stuff into and whether we should copy (slightly or not) from Wikipedia.

They are created automatically from the character box - fill in the series field. I assume you can add others (as Devlin Waugh is a character in Judge Dredd and his own series).

See, for example:
http://wiki.2000adonline.com/index.php/Judge_Dredd_(character)
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: Emperor on 21 January, 2010, 03:17:56 PM
Quote from: Emperor on 21 January, 2010, 03:15:33 PMI assume you can add others (as Devlin Waugh is a character in Judge Dredd and his own series).

OK see for example:
http://wiki.2000adonline.com/index.php/Devlin_Waugh_(character) (http://wiki.2000adonline.com/index.php/Devlin_Waugh_(character))
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: VinceBot on 21 January, 2010, 03:20:23 PM
The template isn't set up to loop through the Series field, thus characters can't yet belong to multiple series. Do you want the ability to do that?
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: Emperor on 21 January, 2010, 03:26:47 PM
Quote from: VinceBot on 21 January, 2010, 03:20:23 PM
The template isn't set up to loop through the Series field, thus characters can't yet belong to multiple series. Do you want the ability to do that?

Yes please (although they can just be added by hand). See:

http://wiki.2000adonline.com/index.php/Rogue_Trooper_(Friday)_(character)
http://wiki.2000adonline.com/index.php/Venus_Bluegenes_(character)

Friday has appeared in Judge Dredd and Venus Bluegenes has appeared in Friday
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: Mike Carroll on 21 January, 2010, 03:32:18 PM
Quote from: VinceBot on 21 January, 2010, 02:13:16 PM
Hey Mike, I noticed you deleted the content out of the "Back to the F##uhrer" page with the correupted name, then created it anew in "Back to the Fuhrer".

In future, instead of blanking the source page you can just click the "move" tab and change the name to what it should be, then change the data in the page to match. this will keep the modification history.

I'll sort out a template people can include which can be used to mark pages for deletion.

Oops... Sorry, Vince. I never even noticed the Move tab!

In future I shall be more careful!

-- Mike
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: VinceBot on 21 January, 2010, 03:36:57 PM
.. wait. It's all well and good adding these guys to categories, but we should probably simplify/automate and organise.. whatever it is we're trying to do here.


The Stories have a field for Character which is expandable, the idea being that you can list each character which has appeared in that story.

The Characters have a field to represent what series the character belongs to, not what they've featured in.

Surely the stories field is the one you want to fill out in this instance? I'm not sure we can successfully tie the Character noted in the Story to a Series, though.

Otherwise you'll have to add each series reference to the character template for each little appearance they make, and you'll have no record of WHERE they made the appearance. If we went that route then we should probably introduce a new field, like "appeared in", where you can list series.
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: VinceBot on 21 January, 2010, 03:37:56 PM
Quote from: Mike Carroll on 21 January, 2010, 03:32:18 PM
Oops... Sorry, Vince. I never even noticed the Move tab!
No worries, it's easily missed :)
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: Emperor on 21 January, 2010, 04:48:15 PM
Quote from: VinceBot on 21 January, 2010, 03:36:57 PM
.. wait. It's all well and good adding these guys to categories, but we should probably simplify/automate and organise.. whatever it is we're trying to do here.

The Stories have a field for Character which is expandable, the idea being that you can list each character which has appeared in that story.

The Characters have a field to represent what series the character belongs to, not what they've featured in.

Surely the stories field is the one you want to fill out in this instance? I'm not sure we can successfully tie the Character noted in the Story to a Series, though.

Otherwise you'll have to add each series reference to the character template for each little appearance they make, and you'll have no record of WHERE they made the appearance. If we went that route then we should probably introduce a new field, like "appeared in", where you can list series.

Ah ha, and this is where you come down to how you define something like "belong" is going to be a tricky beast - Judge Anderson belongs in both the Dredd and her own series I'd have thought (ditto Hammerstein and Ro-Busters/ABC Warriors). Thinking it through there aren't that many characters who have crossed over (and often it'll largely be Dredd characters who had their own spin-off series) and usually only into one story, so it is probably not going to be that confusing (or require an extra field, unless you want one to differentiate between characters who belong to more than one series and those who have only appeared in a series).
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: Batman's Superior Cousin on 21 January, 2010, 04:55:21 PM
Will be starting some articles dedicated to Savage, Rogue Trooper, Shakara, Nemesis, Nikolai dante and Defoe in the next few weeks
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: Emperor on 07 February, 2010, 02:07:59 PM
I was wondering if be a way to import collection information? It'd obviously be handy to have something like the Extreme Editions listed but very useful for things like the Case Files where you'd want an overview page and one for each Case File - all you'd need there is the ability to list the stories and include links to reviews and the like.
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: Emperor on 07 February, 2010, 02:30:52 PM
Oh and would the wiki be the right place for something like this?:

http://www.2000adonline.com/forum/index.php/topic,27561.0.html

It'd be handy as we could link to the various characters/series (and trade collections if the previous idea works out*).

*I have a list of trade reviews saved off if you want me to drop them in here so they can be incorporated as you go along, I'd also include such recommendation as this (as bring such things together so someone can look through them at their leisure could help swing potential buyers):

http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2010/judge-dredd-america/
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: Mike Gloady on 07 February, 2010, 04:08:01 PM
What an amazing idea.  And it's going so well, too.  When I have time I'll be sure to join the fun.
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: Grant Goggans on 13 February, 2010, 11:34:31 AM
If I could make a suggestion... is there really a need for separate pages for (character) and (series) at all?  Why not just have one page, and leave room for a "fictional character biography" - as Wikipedia terms it - there for us to fill out?
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: VinceBot on 13 February, 2010, 12:54:48 PM
Some series aren't characters, and some characters aren't series. This is a descendant from the Vault (front page) setup, where it doesn't make sense database-wise to mix the two into one entity.

Really though, the wiki is free for you guys to figure out. Can you make a separate topic about it?
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: Emperor on 01 March, 2010, 04:26:38 PM
Just one thing that could lead to confusion, if you go to a creators page and click on edit in one of the sections you don't do to a box where you can edit the section, you go to the template and edit that bit of the template (which then inserts that text in every page using the template). To add content to a page you need to edit the whole page.

Is there any way to kill the section [edit] links in the mainspace to avoid this problem? If anyone wanted to change the template they can still go to that specific page.
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: VinceBot on 01 March, 2010, 07:21:53 PM
You'd need to edit in the magic word (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words) "__NOEDITSECTION__", which hides edit section links, into each of the templates.

I might do this myself if I get some spare time.
Title: Re: Wiki Beta, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the community
Post by: Emperor on 01 March, 2010, 11:34:34 PM
OK cool. I've added that to Character, Creator, Megazine, Prog, Series and Story.