User:Jamespapp/sandbox

Overview

This is my sandbox. I usually create my test pages as a subpage of this.

Also see: Game thoughts • Quick notes

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Wiki things

Things I've done

Live wiki:

Page banners: {{Consolidate}} • {{Delete}} • {{Expand}} • {{Incomplete}} • {{Update}}
Message boxes: {{Note}} • {{Tip}} • {{Warning}}

Prototype pages awaiting feedback:

User:Jamespapp/sandbox/Infobox Building Tabbed
User:Jamespapp/sandbox/InfoboxResource → /csv links from csv • /links from csv
- User:Jamespapp/sandbox/SMW/Resources → /Formatted row → /Formatted row2 → /Formatted row3 and Test resources
  - User:Jamespapp/sandbox/SMW/InfoboxResources → /sub → /sub/sub
User:Jamespapp/sandbox/Atka of the Iron Clan → /formatted cell/items price range
- InfoboxMerchant
- Merchants page that not only lists the merchants but also breaks them down into lists of "good for buying these items" and "good for selling these items" and maybe also the "trader vs. trader" matrix.

The dimensions of the game/wiki

Here are the dimensions to the game, as I see them. I think this could be a great way to break down the areas used to document everything about the game in this wiki. I see the list below as a suggested list of the only(?) top-level categories in the wiki? If so, it would make the wiki truly browsable (by category or category tree) via a page that lists only the top level categories and let's the reader run free/drill down from there.

Category:Root is the category page that lists the top-level category pages, and so makes them browsable as a tree.

Category:Game Concepts
- Game operation
- Category:Strategies
- ~~Category:Villagers~~ Villagers
  - ~~Category:Health~~ Health points, i.e. fighting but also hunger?
  - ~~Category:Happiness~~ Happiness
- Category:Combat – I think this is interesting (read:complicated) by spanning a bunch of the other dimensions, such as buildings, villagers & strategies
  - Raiders and their frequency/numbers, their various forms/levels, their battering rams, etc., ransoms.
Category:Resources
- Category:Raw resources
- Category:Foods (not Category:Food, which it should be a subcategory of)
- Category:Produced materials
- Category:Used materials
- Category:Relics
Category:Buildings
- Category:Amenities and services, Category:Housing, Category:Storage, Category:Food production
- Category:Resources (buildings) ~~or just Category:Resources or maybe Category:Resources buildings ?~~
- Category:Defenses, Category:Roads and fencing
- Category:Decorations
  - Category:Trees ← what are their yields? Do they benefit Wells differently?
- ~~Category:Desirability~~ Desirability – affected by Buildings impacting Villagers
Category:Professions
- Are all professions tied to a building (for the sake of discussion, we're including a Crop Field in the category of buildings) except builder? What about an explorer, are they just another use of a laborer? Should Explorer be included in the list of professions for the same reason a Child is, i.e. they're not really professions per se but they're certainly a "state" that a Villager exists in for a time that isn't any one of the other professions and prevents (is this really true for an explorer?) that villager from being assigned a profession.
- Images for the villagers might be fun to create a section for (see Category:Soldier). We'd need to categorize the image pages themselves, and then leverage SMW queries to list them in groups.
Category:Food – should this be its own dimension—it's such a major aspect of the game.
- Category:Foods (also a subcategory of Category:Resources)
- ~~Category:Farming~~ Farming isn't something a Farmer can do without express instruction from the player, so it's bigger than just another row in the Professions table?
- ~~Category:Natural deposits~~ Natural deposits (should we really call them "resource nodes"?) should list everything you can harvest from the uncultivated Terrain, i.e. deposits that are either hunted, foraged, fished or mined, linking to those that have/need pages (such as Fish) but not to those that don't (like hawthorn). The Berries page should list those natural deposits that when foraged result in what the game calls a "berry" (like hawthorns and blueberries). ~~However, should we have Blueberries as they are a little special given that they can be moved?~~
Category:Traveling merchants
- ~~Category:Trading~~ Trading (also in Category:Game Concepts) – the mechanics (foraging, farming, production, the trading post itself, etc.) and (links to?) strategies, and of course listing the merchants themselves and building (some) matrices of their intersection?
~~Category:Terrain~~ Terrain
- Links to the Flatten tool, pertaining to...
- Links to some Food items, which themselves are some Resources?
- In both Category:Buildings and Category:Strategies (with respect to defending against raids)
Category:Wiki administration – a convenient way to find (knowledge-recording) instructions (style, content, templates) and the actual boilerplate & Category:Useful templates we actually want to encourage contributors to use?
- A peer or sub-category of "Icons" in which "Icons (plants)" (as opposed to the current Category:PlantIcons) would be a further sub-category?
  - Tidy up Category:AilmentIcon, Category:Icons, & Category:PlantIcons.
- We should definitely make used of Category:Stubs. We could further augment it with "page needs expanding" & "content may need correction" categories. Note: All of these would result from a page-top message box.

Where I'd like to help

Here are some things I'd like to help out with on this wiki:

Do we want to stick with "title case" page titles or adopt the recommended "sentence case" standard? w:Article title, w:Capitalization, w:Plurals
- Let's review the Style Guide and confirm what from that we want to continue to observe (and what we might change).
- When a page is a child of another, creating it is a true (wiki) subpage, i.e. Food/Farming, is unnecessary as you'd need to create a "Farming" redirect anyways, and the target page would always need to call out the parent page regardless, i.e. "Food", and the name of the page although explicitly indicating taxonomy is just too ugly.
There's a CSS property for "h3" (in load.php ? ... or maybe in the "cosmos" skin?) that I'd like to delete: margin-block-end: 1em;
How about a "Tip!" template that would render a fun little icon (and the word "tip") and maybe even SMW record the tip (and categorize the page) so we could gather all the pages containing a tip up (on the category page) but also list all the tips on a Tips and Tricks page maybe breaking them down by category of the source page, i.e. tips related to trading, tips related to buildings, etc.
~~I tweaked File:Buildings Menu.png but neither Refresh or ⇧ Shift+Ctrl+R would render the updated image (only showing the original, both on that page and the Buildings page).~~
Delete the Main Page or make it a redirect to the Farthest Frontier Community Wiki home/landing page.
Should it really be Rat Catcher (Profession) or just Rat Catcher, with Rat Catcher (Building) being the only parenthesized one of the two?
Implement shortcuts/aliases for pages, i.e. "hh" for Healer's House? We could "advertise" these at/near the top of a page (or section if that's where the alias points) to further enable our readers?
{{Infobox}}es
- Buildings (in progress, see subpages)
  - First stab at reformatting and consolidating forms supporting different tab counts ← DONE, awaiting approval
  - SMW ← pending
    - List buildings (and building upgrades) by the prerequisites they have (not just the cost) like a Basket Shop needing a Saw Pit (for Wood Planks—although you could buy those) or a Barracks needing a Town Center - Tier 4 to upgrade.
      - The converse of that is a building listing this buildings for which it is a prerequisite.
- Resources
  - SMW ← IN PROGRESS ← MUST make SMW an OPTION in this template, defaulting to NO so it can be used elsewhere without inadvertently storing the data again
- Professions
- It might be nice to install Extension:Arrays so I could sort CSV lists of stuff (while rendering an Infobox, say).
- Need links in values enabled so I can store links in SMW data.
Wanted pages
- Raider
- Blueberry Bush
When a page/category is discussed (in its talk page) with regards to deletion/consolidation, a template could be inserted at the top of the article page resulting in a message box that informs the reader of that and the date on which the deletion/consolidation will occur. This could be an SMW date that would allow a list of such categorized pages to be listed in ascending date order to help prioritize the moderators' work. In reality (a) nobody would discuss anything in this way (b) if they did there'd be so few pages affected that we could simply review the category once a month and just take care of them (no prioritization needed). See {{Delete}}, {{Consolidate}}, {{Incomplete}}, etc.
Rename Category:Crop to Category:Crops.
Did running https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:CleanupEmptyCategories.php remove, say, Category:Africa completely?

Subpages

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