User talk:MsTracyLane

Open for business :)

Hi! I'd been wondering, should I move my South-Jersey-Verse to the Universes page, or is it okay being in the Locations page?--Heather Rose Brown (talk)


 * @Heather Rose Brown: You can have it on both, if you want :) MsTracyLane (talk) 12:31, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

Templates
Made Template:Person and two inlays for it - Template:Inlay-Writer and Template:Inlay-Artist. Looks like they are mostly ready for usage.

Please take a look at them and tell me how to improve them. Aesthetics? Usability? Desired modifications? Need for other templates like them? (Currently I plan making templates for stories and art works too.) -- Curiosityitself (talk) 20:14, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

StringFunctions
If that part of the ParserFunctions is enabled, it will allow integrating some convenient functionality into templates - eg. automatically putting articles into appropriate categories.

To enable it, the configuration file LocalSettings.php must contain the line:

$wgPFEnableStringFunctions = true;

If you can edit it, you can add this line yourself. If you cannot, a Miraheze wiki administrator must be contacted to do it. Please tell me if you are okay with this, and if yes, what is the result.

-- Curiosityitself (talk) 21:46, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

Category system
I modified the publications template to style image captions as small and centered, as you specified in Fighting the Homm, so specifying it is not needed anymore.

In addition, it will already auto-wikilink authors, publishers, genres, TG elements and TG themes in the infobox, so you don't need to wikilink them there. As you have noticed, it also automatically puts the article in categories based on these.

(The same enhancements are also added to the person inlay and the story templates. Do you think it is worth categorizing authors by genres etc. too?)

If you have any disagreements or requests for changing the templates, please tell me.

I have a proposal for a category system:

A publication is categorized by authors, publishers, genres, TG elements and TG themes. These categories are publications-only (eg. "Publications by Barbie Lee" instead of "Barbie Lee", "Publications - Science Fiction" instead of "Science Fiction", etc).

All categories for publications by author are categorized in turn in a "Publications by author" category, ordered by author names, and possibly in a category, named after the author. Ditto for categories for publications by publisher, etc.

The "Publications by author" category is categorized in "Publications", together with its sister categories.

Similar structure for stories, for art works, and possibly for other stuff.

Your opinion? -- Curiosityitself (talk) 22:37, 22 September 2021 (UTC)


 * @Curiosityitself: From what I can see, your system is working fine, so I agree that we should go ahead with it. I would suggest, however, allowing less experienced users to employ the simple  system until they're more familiar with the editing environment.


 * BTW: thanks very much for the modifications to ; you have an excellent ability for finding solutions and improving existing processes. MsTracyLane (talk) 23:18, 22 September 2021 (UTC)


 * My idea is that users who create articles for authors / stories /publications should not need to care about categories at all. Put the appropriate infobox in it, fill in the fields, and the infobox template should automatically categorize the article where needed. :) If you see any problems with this, please let me know. -- Curiosityitself (talk) 14:28, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
 * I don't see any problems with it, Curiosity. The automated functions should save everybody a lot of effort. If you have any more time-saving ideas, please continue to implement them as you see fit. As always, thanks very much. MsTracyLane (talk) 06:48, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

7/24/2022
Any questions? Please leave a message below; I'll get back to you as soon as I can. MsTracyLane (talk) 08:30, 24 July 2022 (UTC)