The NES Wiki - Get Wiki With It

[jalapeno_dude]

Um, not compared to setting up hundreds of pages of redirects, no, it doesn't. In fact, comparatively, it saves many, many steps, and lots of clutter.

Yeah, but it means people won't be able to type in the name of the NES and get a real result.

 

[Symphony D.]

Retroactive deletion.

 

[jalapeno_dude]

Okay, I figured out how to use templates. Check out Amirsan's page, and the ones linked to it, and let me know what you think about the idea and about the implementation. Symphony, do you have any idea how I could organize it horizontally instead of vertically? Looking on Wikipedia is unhelpful, since they use lots and lots and lots of nested templates and I don't really want to import all of them over to NESWiki.

 

[Symphony D.]

Retroactive deletion.

 

[jalapeno_dude]

Now you know why it was a . .. .. .. .. . to get things started: templates. I don't know much about laying them out, just constructing them.

I'd say just take the table out of the listing and chop off "Moderator" since that gives a cleaner look... and dates.

Do you know how I can add a title at the top that takes up the full width of the table?

 

[Symphony D.]

Retroactive deletion.

 

[jalapeno_dude]

For once, yes, as I had to do it for the first listing. This is the important bit:


You have to insert the "| <thing>" to specify what the title of the column is. Everything after that specifies its style.

Then, in each subsequent entry in the list, you notice how they're separated by "||"? That specifies it's to fall under a different column. The "|-" is just a line break. One entry for each column--crop out "Moderator" and the rest and it'll work just fine.

Right, I get that part, but how can I add a title line over that? I want something like "Amirsan's NESes", and then the relevant part of the table below that, as the template.

 

[Symphony D.]

Retroactive deletion.

 

[Thlayli]

Ok, now that they're being categorized, I'm ready to go trawling through the CFC archives and add content to the wiki pages of the early NESes.

But before I do that, is there a standard format or template that I/we should use for NES pages? It seems like a good idea to decide beforehand, so we don't have stubs and multiple conflicting systems all over the place.

Even better, someone can just install the framework now and then hand the work over to editors (like myself) that can fill in the required areas with all the NES data.

 

[jalapeno_dude]

Ok, now that they're being categorized, I'm ready to go trawling through the CFC archives and add content to the wiki pages of the early NESes.

But before I do that, is there a standard format or template that I/we should use for NES pages? It seems like a good idea to decide beforehand, so we don't have stubs and multiple conflicting systems all over the place.

Even better, someone can just install the framework now and then hand the work over to editors (like myself) that can fill in the required areas with all the NES data.

That's what we've been doing. At a minimum, a NES article needs the title and who modded it. If you're feeling ambitious, you could put who the players were and what countries they played, but I don't think that's necessary.

 

[Symphony D.]

Retroactive deletion.

 

[Nylan]

Bah, my time online has been cut back by RL, so even though I said I would help, you can expect it even less than before. I'll still try to add to player pages and the prose of some NESes with which I am familiar, but other than that I'm not much good anyways.

 

[Symphony D.]

Retroactive deletion.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

I agree. LINESII is one NES, not three.

 

[Symphony D.]

Retroactive deletion.

 

[jalapeno_dude]

No, you should feel free.

I'll be gone from early Friday until Labor day, and this time I definitely won't have internet access. So don't expect me to get any work done.

I will post a raw text file of all of the things I've been pasting into articles, and an explanation of how to use it. Tomorrow, though.

Oh, and Symphony, could you update Template:Amirsan to take into account the name changes?

 

[jalapeno_dude]

Here's the raw data. Find the actual NESes among the list of all the threads, copy the NES entry, and paste into the article. This is ordered by thread opening date, so it should (mostly) agree with the NES database order.

Users who joined CFC early and thus have shorter user ID's (like das) have their names truncated. Be sure to fix that.

This doesn't include the most recent ones because I was having problems with thread starters being matched to the right threads. Need to fix that.

I'll be back in 9 days. Enjoy!

 

[Symphony D.]

Retroactive deletion.

 

[Thlayli]

Canceled, because Nylan offered to do it instead. Having been there.

So, pfft.

 

[jeps]

Symph, if you want me to show you insolence I can. Seriously.

then again, you are using the english version. I am used to the hebrew version.