Herocopia talk:Community portal

Mr. Smartie Notes: Please don't delete discussion items. They serve as history, a log of problems and the resolution. Thanks! --Infobroker (talk) 07:56, 7 January 2015 (PST)

Annotations/Events Notecards - Future Impacts to Herocopia Site

First off, let me say I had hoped we would have been further along in the process of building the Event entries. But real life on my level does cause major changes to drag here in the land of media wikis.

• As I master more skills with semantic queries, especially the formatting, the events sections for characters will change, not be so kludgy looking. (done deed!)

• There will be a rewinding of sorts( please don't kill me Zak) of the various business, neighborhoods, etc... pages. Instead of building those by hand we will use semantic queries to auto build those pages. This means we will go back to having individual pages for each item. I just finished pulling Shadow Hill and now Mount Kirby off and made them individual pages using the new templates. Two good examples for people to use as models. (in progress)

• Other types of pages will be created using queries, and more information will derive itself from queries, some totally new, and some to replace some of the manual entry we do now. (on going)

• All of this will happen over time. Right now my emphasis is on getting more events annotated. The rest of this is background noise, bouncing around in my brain cells, waiting for its moments of focused attention.

Feel free to post your questions, concerns and other input.

In summary, Everyone should feel free to build and edit event entries. The how-to details can be found on the help page for Building Event Note Cards for Events and Annotations. Also, take advantage of the new "Device" Templates for Landmarks, Gizmos, and other non-character Herocopia pages.

--Infobroker (talk) 09:40, 20 November 2015 (PST)

New "Device" Templates

• Testing is Done.

We now have separately designed templates to support non-character related entries like landmarks, gizmos, neighborhoods, etc. Please use them for this purpose going forward. Also feel free to ween current landmark, gizmo, neighborhoods, etc. from the character templates to these newly provided ones.

There are three templates in all and they are named according to their layout form.

DevicesLandscape This displays a single image above the text in a landscape or horizontal fashion.

DevicesPortrait This displays a single image on the left hand side of the layout in a portrait or vertical fashion. The text stays in a column on the right.

DevicesFloat This displays a single image that floats to the left in a vertical fashion. Text will flow around the image.

You can manual add additional images to any of the templates you favor. Each template also provides automatic interface code to pick up any annotation events that reference them. The Monstro City entry is good for seeing this in action.

The infobox2 template is currently receiving a value for the type property setting. This will change very quickly to it doing it automatically. (Hence the need to move non-character entries to the device templates).

--Infobroker (talk) 09:40, 20 November 2015 (PST)