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RE: "Ugh I need to update my character's Wiki" - Ruran - 01-11-2017
I did it.
I finally finished custom wikis for my active characters.
Now I can rest
...for now.
bury me
RE: "Ugh I need to update my character's Wiki" - Faye - 01-11-2017
(01-11-2017, 01:06 PM)Ruran Wrote: I did it.
I finally finished custom wikis for my active characters.
Now I can rest
...for now.
bury me
I finished all mine, too, this week.
please kill me
RE: "Ugh I need to update my character's Wiki" - Kilieit - 01-11-2017
I admit I haven't really been bothered with custom wiki sheets? I can convey the information I want to (which is very sparse) with basic wiki markup, and...
...I already have tumblr sidepages for my alts with extensive custom CSS. They look how I want them to, and I didn't have to wrestle with getting the CSS to cooperate with another system (since tumblr sidepages don't actually pull anything from tumblr itself unless you want them to for a specific reason). Still, it took me several weeks to get them all in order, and I'm dreading going through them for review since there's so many of them.
I can't imagine having to do it for wiki pages as well, as neat as it might be to have cute formatting. :< Is that bad? My tumblr sidepages are the the ones I link in my search info anyway (since the URL is short), so IDK how much attention my wiki pages even get.
They're basically like little previews of my sidepages, lol...
RE: "Ugh I need to update my character's Wiki" - Aya - 01-11-2017
(01-11-2017, 02:20 PM)Kilieit Wrote: I admit I haven't really been bothered with custom wiki sheets? I can convey the information I want to (which is very sparse) with basic wiki markup, and...Exactly!
Wiki's don't have to be that sophisticated to get the job done ^^
Then again I wouldn't even know where to begin with a tumblr side bar. That sounds a whole lot more involved than a character wiki!
RE: "Ugh I need to update my character's Wiki" - GhostlyMaiden - 01-11-2017
(01-11-2017, 02:16 PM)Faye Wrote:(01-11-2017, 01:06 PM)Ruran Wrote: I did it.
I finally finished custom wikis for my active characters.
Now I can rest
...for now.
bury me
I finished all mine, too, this week.
please kill me
I'm slowly working on updating the wiki for Kanako, new template and all. EVERYTHING IS FINE!
Everything is going wrong please send help oh my god what have I done
Update: I did it. The most painful part of it is done. I just need to add finishing touches. That only took me a month. :^)
RE: "Ugh I need to update my character's Wiki" - Kilieit - 01-11-2017
(01-11-2017, 02:37 PM)Aya Wrote:(01-11-2017, 02:20 PM)Kilieit Wrote: I admit I haven't really been bothered with custom wiki sheets? I can convey the information I want to (which is very sparse) with basic wiki markup, and...Exactly!
Wiki's don't have to be that sophisticated to get the job done ^^
Then again I wouldn't even know where to begin with a tumblr side bar. That sounds a whole lot more involved than a character wiki!
I usually start here:
http://theme-hunter.tumblr.com/tagged/codes
Then use my pre-existing knowledge of HTML and CSS to adapt the page code I chose for my use. w3schools is useful to bridge knowledge gaps in that department.
Arguably it's more involved, because you have to define everything from top to bottom, then execute it... but personally I find it easier to deal with one consistent system than trying to blend two together. If I encounter a problem when customising my tumblr sidepage, I can usually find the solution by easily googling for anyone else using CSS in any context...
Whereas even when I was writing my pages with basic wiki markup, I kept on trying to use a piece of markup I'd used in my wikia days, finding it didn't work, then... maybe I'm dumb, but... having to spend ages troubleshooting because I couldn't find any relevant usage documentation for the RPC wiki.
It took me half an hour to figure out the contents template was automatic (I started with under the required number of subtitles, putting {{Contents}} below the header, and getting frustrated when it wasn't doing anything). I ended up just utilising a workaround for my profile pic sizes, of manually resizing them in Ps and reuploading them instead of trying to get them to behave themselves with code. >_>
RE: "Ugh I need to update my character's Wiki" - Berrod Armstrong - 01-11-2017
(01-11-2017, 02:20 PM)Kilieit Wrote: I admit I haven't really been bothered with custom wiki sheets? I can convey the information I want to (which is very sparse) with basic wiki markup, and...That was my view on it for a while, but my tumblr is like 80% shitposting lol. I just took one of the shiny templates and used it.
...I already have tumblr sidepages for my alts with extensive custom CSS. They look how I want them to, and I didn't have to wrestle with getting the CSS to cooperate with another system (since tumblr sidepages don't actually pull anything from tumblr itself unless you want them to for a specific reason). Still, it took me several weeks to get them all in order, and I'm dreading going through them for review since there's so many of them.
I can't imagine having to do it for wiki pages as well, as neat as it might be to have cute formatting. :< Is that bad? My tumblr sidepages are the the ones I link in my search info anyway (since the URL is short), so IDK how much attention my wiki pages even get.
They're basically like little previews of my sidepages, lol...