Okay, so from a combination of skimming other wikis and pulling entirely from my ass, I've come up with headings I think could work. Comments/Suggestions/Don't like it? Fight me! ... here.
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Currently I'm formatting character articles like this:
- short introductory blurb
History - anything we know about them that happened before the start of the story
Appearance - I'm not super sold on this, but several of the articles already included this info. Might as well have a place for it.
Personality - probably the best descriptive tab imo
Plot Overview - highly summarized overview of their role in the story
Gift (maybe Powers and Abilities for some characters?) - I think an in depth discussion of each character's powers fits best onto each character page, due to the personal (and twisted) nature of each.
Trivia - misc and stuff that isn't really important, but still is cool.
So... at least for the main cast (Bina, Kendra, Elizabeth, Amie, Emmie and Gregor) I'd like them to all have a similar structure. That being said, I'm not married to any particular order, whatever, so feel free to throw out suggestoins>
Hmm I guess B4 hasn't teamed up with anyone yet. Jumped the gun there. :P I like the other suggestions as well.
Chapter summaries are a bit more work than I wanted to take on, but then I realize how much hopping around I'd have to do to get the character pages how I'd like them, haha.
... I need to work that quote in.
And hi Xooxu! I wasn't sure if you were still active or not, glad to see you're around. Totally agree on not wanting to become too obsessed with the wiki, but also not having to scrounge around to confirm/deny my own fan theories would be nice.
I'm sure there's a way to add those warning boxes at the top, I might give that a shot next time I have some free time. :P
Okay so the old infoboxes had:
Name, First Seen, Aliases, Relatives, Affiliation, Age, Status (alive/dead), Gender, Eye Color, Species.
Doktor Electrogeist helped me figure out how to change them, I went ahead and removed Relatives, Eye Color and he removed Species because it was just trolling. Good news is this doesn't remove any info from the pages, it just won't display if it's removed from the template.
Going to add Gifts for now, and say we should use the Affiliation (could use a better name, maybe?) to denote Team Green/Team Bina because I think that's decently useful information.
As I said in the other thread, I feel weird unilaterally making changes so opening a discussion here for anyone interested.
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Don't like the changes? Want to make suggestions? Take it up here!
Hah! Glad I'm not the only one who feels kinda weird removing things from the sidebar. Like... we could probably get one that makes a little more sense from a series perspective going. Like... scratch relatives, there's not many family members mentioned (at least by name, we know Bina's dad was an architect and Kendra's parents did helicopter stuff), eye color is a mystery given the art style. You know what I'll start a discussion just for that! :P
Neat you found the quote, thanks! (Yeah I was kinda surprised how references worked entirely different than I expected them to, but it makes sense from a 'not jumping down to the bottom to add them each time' perspective).
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
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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.
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Messed with a page, here's some rando thoughts/questions that'd help me help with this wiki! ^^
Poor lonely discussions page. I too would like to flesh out the wiki some, hopefully we can work together! :P