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Re: Introducing the RPC Library wiki - Asyria - 10-04-2010
Awesome work!
As far as character pages go, should we use the same template as in the Archives?
Re: Introducing the RPC Library wiki - Trizzip - 10-04-2010
I basically went with the same, but tweaked it a little so to make sure I included everything that I wanted from my character profile. If you want to bounce off that, you can always check my page.
Re: Introducing the RPC Library wiki - FreelanceWizard - 10-04-2010
There's also a template implicitly built into the how-to guide, but whatever you want to go with is fine. I would highly recommend preserving the Infobox, however, as it offers valuable additional features besides a pretty box.
Re: Introducing the RPC Library wiki - Trizzip - 10-04-2010
Yes, the Infobox is definitely made of win. Although, if it had room for a few more lines of info, that'd be pretty cool too
Re: Introducing the RPC Library wiki - Trizzip - 10-05-2010
Hey FreeLance, is there anyway to make the 'Edit' links on the sides of the page a little smaller so they are less intrusive? Also, every time I make a 'thumb' of a picture, I get this white border around the image. Anyway this can be fixed?
Also, just want to add that what you've done is fantastic. I love the Wiki the page.
Re: Introducing the RPC Library wiki - FreelanceWizard - 10-05-2010
By "edit links," do you mean the sidebar links? I suppose I can shrink them down, but I don't want to make them too small and impact those with high resolutions. On 1680x1050, they're pretty tiny.
As for the white border, I'll take a look at the CSS. I thought I caught all the white there, but I could easily have missed some. Thumbnail images in MediaWiki generally always have a border associated with them, but I agree that pure white is a little "loud" for our theme. A light greyish brown, similar to the background image, is probably better.
On another note -- and this is a more global question -- what do you think we should do about characters who have their own categories? I can see arguments for it both ways. The pros more or less boil down to: makes NPCs easier to find; groups can have them, so why can't characters?; more classification is better than less. The cons are essentially: clutters up the category lists, especially if the categories are themselves categorized, which is ideal; overproliferates categories, potentially slowing down the site; confuses searchers; promotes NPCs and other character-specific entities as being equal to PCs, as opposed to being subpages. I lean towards the "no," just because it's likely going to be me going through the Uncategorized Categories list and categorizing all of these pages, and because it increases the cleanup required in the event of a name collision wherein someone's NPC has the name of a PC. PC names always take precedence over NPC names when they collide. What does everyone else think?
Re: Introducing the RPC Library wiki - ArmachiA - 10-05-2010
I think NPC's and PC's should have their own section, once people start putting NPC;s on there it's gonna be hard to tell which is which
Re: Introducing the RPC Library wiki - FreelanceWizard - 10-05-2010
They currently have their own root categories, though I do need to make an Infobox-NPC to properly classify them. I'll probably do that when I extend out the infobox some; I think I'll bring it out to 10 stats and burn a couple of them in the derived templates for things like Known Disciplines. I don't want to make it as huge as, say, the Virtueverse box, as I feel brevity is a virtue and that box is damned huge.
My major concern is with NPCs being top level pages, as opposed to subpages of the character or group to which they're most relevant, and then having people self-categorizing them. Buuut this isn't my baby alone, and I feel all wikis should come to policy decisions not through Wikipedia-style politics but by discussion.
Re: Introducing the RPC Library wiki - Trizzip - 10-05-2010
As to what to do about the NPCs, how you explained that made my brain very tired, but I can say that I love having a database of NPCs as well as sometimes I like to institute some insiginificant NPCs to my character's RP storyline (in a very insignificant way of course, so as to avoid bending canon).
As for the Edit links, yea those are the ones I was talking about. Also, I run a max resolution myself. I like how small they are on the Virtueverse page if that gives you a better idea?
Re: Introducing the RPC Library wiki - ArmachiA - 10-09-2010
Got a question. Any template on adding NPC's and Canonical lore into the Wiki? I want to start adding the important characters (and not so important ones) and was wondering if there was any tipes. I'm VERY new to wiki's so sorry if this is a dumb question
Re: Introducing the RPC Library wiki - Trizzip - 10-09-2010
ArmachiA Wrote:Got a question. Any template on adding NPC's and Canonical lore into the Wiki? I want to start adding the important characters (and not so important ones) and was wondering if there was any tipes. I'm VERY new to wiki's so sorry if this is a dumb question
I've already put up 'some' canon stuff on the wiki that you can check out. I find that Eorzeapedia is really useful in getting ideas for formats, as the coding is very similar to our wiki. If you're around later tonight, we can talk about more wiki stuff.
Re: Introducing the RPC Library wiki - River - 10-11-2010
I created an infobox template for linkshells, should you wish to use it: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Infobox-Linkshell">http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/wiki/index ... -Linkshell</a><!-- m -->
Re: Introducing the RPC Library wiki - Trizzip - 10-11-2010
Keir Wrote:I created an infobox template for linkshells, should you wish to use it: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Infobox-Linkshell">http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/wiki/index ... -Linkshell</a><!-- m -->
You are a delight sir! ^.^
Re: Introducing the RPC Library wiki - Satisiun - 10-11-2010
Brin Ahlrine Wrote:Keir Wrote:I created an infobox template for linkshells, should you wish to use it: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Infobox-Linkshell">http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/wiki/index ... -Linkshell</a><!-- m -->
You are a delight sir! ^.^
An aaaaaaaafternoon delight, at that.
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Re: Introducing the RPC Library wiki - Kylin - 10-12-2010
Is there a way to expand the editing menu at all? I notice there are some things missing (like a color changing palette) that some may really like. I realize that you can still change text colors with the proper coding but the average user probably has no idea about those codes and would probably much prefer an actual button for coloring text (much like these forums do). Same with text sizing as well, creating a list, etc.