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Post by Joe Manzo on Jun 12, 2007 23:09:12 GMT -5
He will introduce himself shortly, but this should put an end to any organizational problems.
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Post by YodaBreaker on Jun 13, 2007 8:35:27 GMT -5
Howdy I make the worst lurker in history; and especially with a new project like this starting up, I couldn't keep my grubby fingers out of the pie any longer. Basically, what I was hoping to do is create a series of Wiki templates for us to use to add figure information. Joe's got a nice start with the table box he made for Spidey, but it's still a lot of code that would need to be copied and pasted every time a new page is made. I was hoping to riff off Wookieepedia's character infobox template, with the following fields for each figure: COLLECTOR INFO Series name (e.g., Star Wars, Transformers, Marvel, Ghost Rider) Series number (e.g., 1, 2, 3, or 4 for SW, 1 for TF or Marvel - for now) Figure number Rarity FIGURE STATS Universe class (e.g., Empire, Decepticon, Marvel Knights) Attacktix class (e.g., Trooper, Leader, Warrior) Point value Base size (i.e., small, medium, large, Mega) Attack type (e.g., horizontal lightsaber striker, large missile launcher) SPECIAL POWER INFO Power name (e.g., Attackback (3 Jedi), Recover (Trooper), Vanquish (opponent's defeated figure)) Power probability (e.g., 12/26 (46%), 18/26 (69%), 16/26 (62%)) Offhand, I can think of a couple of things that can be debated here. For example: COLLECTOR INFO - Should all of the collector info be reported in separate fields, or collapsed into a single field? If the latter, we've already got that captured in the figure name; should the collector info be entirely eliminated?
- Does the rarity field belong here?
FIGURE STATS How descriptive do we want to be with the "Attack type" field? Is launcher/striker a sufficient distinction? Do we want to have separate fields for the basic launcher/striker distinction, with another field for "Attack specifics" or something like that? SPECIAL POWER INFO - Do we want the figures required or affected by the power to be a separate field from the power name?
- Do we want to report both the ratio and percentage in the "Power probability" field (hence why I used "probability" to cover both ways of expressing this)? Or should we just report one or the other, inasmuch as they're numerically redundant ways of expressing the same info?
OTHER THINGS - Should each universe have different color schemes for the info box? I kinda like this idea to provide some immediate information about the figures, but I'm not wedded to this.
- I don't like the mix of terminology with "Series name" and "Universe class", but things like Ghost Rider and Spidey Origins/Tourney set clearly belong to the Marvel universe (i.e., their universe classes are from the Marvel universe), even though they come from a differently named series (i.e., GR, SM). Any ideas about how to reconcile this?
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Post by malform on Jun 13, 2007 8:51:55 GMT -5
Interesting... I have updated all TF1 figures with the template Joe provided, and have added pics for all but 2 of them... Ill update to any template that is determined to be a standard. Just keep it posted. Nice to see you on the board again
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Post by grievous on Jun 13, 2007 8:58:49 GMT -5
Wait, it's August 15th already? How in the world did I miss my birthday and the entirety of summer? Just kidding, of course . Glad to have you back, Yodabreaker! Collector info should be separate fields, if you ask me. Rarity should definitely be included. The Attack should go into exactly what attack they have. Glob missile, small missile, force blast, paw striker, shoulder-hinge striker, uppercut, etc. I believe "requires" and "targets" sections would be helpful in the infobox. Also, I'd just use percentages. Much simpler. I like the idea of different colored boxes but we'd have to iron that sort of thing out. As far as series and universes, simple. Treat them as separate sets inside the original series. So, we'd have Marvel Series 1, Ghost Rider, and Spider-Man as the current Marvel sets released.
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Post by webhead817 on Jun 13, 2007 9:57:33 GMT -5
For the ratios, my only recommendation is to keep in mind that at least one figure has an "if black" power in addition to an "if white" power...you may want to account for that.
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Post by Phoenix on Jun 13, 2007 10:00:02 GMT -5
HA! ;D Well I know your help is greatly appreciated.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2007 10:58:02 GMT -5
Welcome back to the fold, YodaBreaker! I was worried you'd miss out on the fun of creating this Wiki.
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Post by YodaBreaker on Jun 13, 2007 13:43:29 GMT -5
Thank you all, for your kind wishes. I'll take care of any updating that needs to be done, but I just wanted to give people a chance to comment on templates before I started on 'em I doubt I'd be able to pass up helping to start a new project like this. Grievous, I think your comments are valid. As for the colors, the hope is that with a template, the colors would be easy enough to adjust with a single code change I'm sure they'll go through a few iterations of "how ugly was that?" before we find something that's mutually agreeable. webhead, good point. I'll make sure to keep that in mind.
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Post by Ataru on Jun 13, 2007 13:51:13 GMT -5
Yes, welcome back! I see the organizational problems sailing out the window as I type. ;D
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Post by malform on Jun 13, 2007 14:03:21 GMT -5
I was toying with the complete figure guides and came up with this.Needs work, I wish it wasnt 3 times longer than the site itself... But I like how its all encompassing. Thoughts?
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Post by Joe Manzo on Jun 13, 2007 16:11:46 GMT -5
I was toying with the complete figure guides and came up with this.Needs work, I wish it wasnt 3 times longer than the site itself... But I like how its all encompassing. Thoughts? You set width = 200% essentially Doubling the size of the table... wikifixed.
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Post by malform on Jun 13, 2007 18:05:09 GMT -5
I was toying with the complete figure guides and came up with this.Needs work, I wish it wasnt 3 times longer than the site itself... But I like how its all encompassing. Thoughts? You set width = 200% essentially Doubling the size of the table... wikifixed. lol Well, I knew that I didnt like how it scrunched it up at 100%... I think it would be better if it was wider, but had a horizontal scroll or something... Rather than just shooting off to the right of the page like that.
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Post by Joe Manzo on Jun 13, 2007 18:40:22 GMT -5
You set width = 200% essentially Doubling the size of the table... wikifixed. lol Well, I knew that I didnt like how it scrunched it up at 100%... I think it would be better if it was wider, but had a horizontal scroll or something... Rather than just shooting off to the right of the page like that. Ah, like an iframe inside the wiki. I don't think THAT is possible, but maybe we can try something... I will play with it. Also, there is a dead column at the end... I will try to dump that too
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Post by Joe Manzo on Jun 13, 2007 18:44:09 GMT -5
You set width = 200% essentially Doubling the size of the table... wikifixed. lol Well, I knew that I didnt like how it scrunched it up at 100%... I think it would be better if it was wider, but had a horizontal scroll or something... Rather than just shooting off to the right of the page like that. Maybe the table would be shorter if we added an extra ROW only when certain figures have multiple effects/requirements As opposed to adding an extra COLUMN, that is always there, and in MOST cases not needed. I will make a fake example for you to see what I mean in the same section EDIT: EXAMPLE LIVE
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Post by YodaBreaker on Jun 13, 2007 19:32:51 GMT -5
Welp, here's my figure info template, along with my example of how to use it, the Jedi Knight - which also features a quote template that I've used for flavor text. I'm thinking of making uber-template pages for SW, TF, and Marvel figures, so that we could have consistent color schemes and fields to use for each universe's figures. However, this is something I'm only willing to try with pages I'm actively tweaking around with.
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