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Originally Posted by soronil
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1. rename existing eras. "Stonebrunt Era" -> "March 2001 (Stonebrunt)"
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Let's start here. The wiki already today says "Stonebrunt Era (added Summer 2001)" ... when someone uses a "page template". It certainly would be easy enough to change "Summer" to "Aug 2001- Jan 2001", because that text is generated by a single template which we can just edit.
But it also has two other templates for showing era info "inline" (eg. in a list of items) or in tables (eg. the class spell lists). Right now we already have a large block of brown text that say "Velious Era" or "Chardok Revamp Era" or "Hole/Veeshan's Peak Era" next to such content (items, mobs, whatever).
With Green we'll likely use all these templates more: anytime a page will have any kind of "filter" (like the checkboxes to only show certain eras on the class spell pages), they will rely on these templates to tell which content is from when. Do we want to see slightly bigger blocks, such as "Hole/Veeshan's Peak Era (June 2000)", or do we want to try and reduce their footprint (and start only calling it "Hole Era")?
Clearly if a spell came out in the Hole era, we don't want "Hole/Veeshan's Peak Era (June 2000)" ... in the spell column that currently just says "Vel."
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] But what about the "inline" templates that currently say the whole era?
For the sake of argument let's say we decide "the inline stuff will be too ugly with that much more text ". Even if we only change the page templates, how should the details work?
Right now we've got:
{{Stonebrunt Era}}
Anyone can check
http://wiki.project1999.com/Category:Era_Templates and find the template to use (though most won't even do that).
We can ask the ones who will to add a time argument, so that you could specify "this came out in this month of this era":
{{Stonebrunt Era|September 2001}}
That seems easy enough to do, and no one could really object to slightly more accurate (but no more verbose) era text, right? Except ... I worry: what if Nilbog announces each patch like "this is patch #5". People are going to be thinking "we're on #5", and what they're really going to be looking for in the wiki is "is my sword in #6?" And we'll really want "Stonebrunt (#27-#31)" as the era text.
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Originally Posted by soronil
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I'm not sure if live timeline months make sense here, since our timeline may be slightly different, live monthish? p99 green month (which we may not know until it happens)? p99 green patch #?
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This.
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Originally Posted by soronil
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You may have to change the name of the groups over time, I Assume this is trivial to rename existing category. Probably not for a user, but for the administrator it should be similar to a find/replace?
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Yes and no. In general with categories, no, because they are part of the page. If you want to rename a category you have to edit every single page in it.
But luckily most of the era categories come from a template, and if we edit that template it changes every affected page. That means that we can tweak text on existing eras easily, and again I can even change the templates to let people specify details. That's probably the best path forward, but I'm still not sure of the exact details right now.
P.S. To educate myself on all this though, I did make a new
http://wiki.project1999.com/Patch_Notes page in the wiki