Wiki per-month era tags

[Dolalin]

With songs and spells and items now being gated by month, we could use per-month "Era" tags to let players know which month to expect a spell/item/song to unlock in.

Anyone more wiki familiar want to set some up and we can start tagging stuff?

"Launch"
"April 1999"
"May 1999"
"June 1999"
...
Etc. Right up to Dec 2001.

[Baler]

Paging Loramin

edit: https://wiki.project1999.com/Category:Era_Templates

Super thankful he expanded it this much. It was just cla,kun,vel in the past.

editedit: https://wiki.project1999.com/Patch_Notes
I have mixed feelings about adding era tags for all of these. I can't really see justifying it. Each patch didn't not necessarily add/remove.
That being said. I think this stems into a broader idea of how we (the community) plan to document classic on the wiki.
IE: green content along side blue content. There are ideas and i'll leave it to smarter more experienced people to find the best solution.

[Dolalin]

Oh that's actually pretty good!

But still a bit confusing since unlocks will be monthly. I really think we need monthly unlock labels of some kind.

[loramin]

Oh that's actually pretty good!

But still a bit confusing since unlocks will be monthly. I really think we need monthly unlock labels of some kind.

Yes, unlocks will be monthly, but no that does not mean that we'll have tons of new items every month.

If you look at the patch notes page, or just at the items in the wiki, you'll notice a very clear pattern: when a new zone comes out, new NPCs, items, quests, spells, etc. all come out along with it. Yes some few new items/NPCs do come out in-between zone releases ... but most don't.

All of the "eras" are tied to zone releases, which means that most content will be accurately covered by sticking one of those templates on its wiki page. And for most content at least, we already know the era information, so we can use those tags today. For now that's all that I personally plan to make.

Once Green has had a month or two of releases, and we actually see "patch #2" or "patch June 1999" or whatever come out with new content then I think it will make sense to add a tag to the wiki for marking patch (ie. in-between era) content, because we'll have a much better idea of what everything looks like (eg. whether we want to number the patches, use P99 release dates, use classic release dates, etc.).

Also, there's no way to predict exactly what stuff Nilbog will add to patch #1, #2, etc. unless you're the most hardcore classic researcher in the world (more than Nilbog) ... but with all that said, I don't control the wiki, I'm just one motivated wiki editor. Anyone less patient is welcome to make such a template now, and then if it needs to change in the future we can change it. I personally would just rather wait and get it right.