Messed with a page, here's some rando thoughts/questions that'd help me help with this wiki! ^^
Messed with a page, here's some rando thoughts/questions that'd help me help with this wiki! ^^
I messed with the B4 page, seeing what was possible, easily done, etc. all-night-laundry.wikia.com/wiki/B4 Thoughts:
Big Things:
- Who all is working on this? I'd much rather collaborate than run roughshod over something in progress.
- Spoiler Boxes. I've seen some wikis have a box that goes "This is a spoiler, only unhide if you're okay with that" and I'd love the ability to do the same here (though some pages might just count as pure spoilers and would get a header instead). I looked at some guides and saw a "collapsible wikitable" but I couldn't get it to collapse. There was implication something might need to be enabled, it could/should become a template and it's all a bit outside of my wheelhouse. ):
- Templates in general. Can I edit them, where do I do it, what changes should be made?
- Gifts. I'd like to make a page about "gifts" (Amie's Who Effect, etc), maybe add it to the character infobox. I'D LIKE TO THEORIZE A LOT ABOUT GIFTS AND I HAVE NO PLACE TO DO IT UGHHH THIS IS THE WORST THING D:
Small questions:
- can anyone locate the author text on this page ( all-night-laundry.wikia.com/wiki/Languages )? I had assumed it was when Kendra was talking to Gregor in the lift, but I couldn't find it.
- Similarly, where'd eye color info come from? I flipped through most of the images and they're usually just colored black... Or is Bina's eye color listed green just jokes because unlight? >__>
- Similarly, is the 'species' field in the infobox for trolling or no? Most of the humans are just 'human', but bina is species 'mouse-girl' and Kendra's species is 'Canadian'. I'll conform to either, but we should pick one. (Alternatively, if I figure templates out I could just remove it, pretty much everyone is human or 'hell if I know").
- I'd like to head most pages with quotes from the story (maybe just because I enjoy Zach's writing so much). For example look at the B4 page I fiddled with, or consider something like this for the Botfly's page: "I can't draw what it really looks like 'cause it keeps changing. So I drew a botfly. That's not right either, but its less wrong then other things." - Bina, age 11 1/2. Any objections?
- We... we should probably make pages for B5-B12 cause we'll be meeting at least *some* of them.
Hey so I don't really edit much at all but I did start the wiki so I guess I'm qualified to answer? I guess take all this with a grain of salt.
- No idea who's working on a page, but I think it should be OK to start editing, I don't think anybody plans edits in a way that you would ruin anything.
- Spoiler boxes: I'm eh on the idea. What even is a spoiler? Is the existence of a page called 'Time Travel' a spoiler? Is it a spoiler that Bina encounters a giant undog at the beginning? Where in the story do spoilers start? I think the fact that the entire story is readable for free all at once means that there's not much of a reason to mark spoilers. Like there's nothing stopping anybody from being caught up, besides consumption time, unlike in tv shows or movies etc.
- No idea on templates, haven't tried fiddling with them, but someone else might know better.
- Any page ideas you have feel free to add (After seeing if it already exists). Wikis work on collaboration and the idea that anybody can edit.
- No idea about the author text, or eye color. Species is definitely a holdover from the templates, I don't think it would hurt to remove, but I'd say go with the serious if we have to pick. Don't want to confuse people.
- Quotes heading is a fantastic idea, go for it! (And include citations to pages if you can!)
Agree that less trolling is probably better. Though if it's just one place then it can be contained, but then it's a barrier to entry and... okay probably not.
So back to wondering about templates, ahaha.
Something for a not currently going to sleep Nate to worry about. :P