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Question Wiki Canon Stories changes
9 years 1 month ago #1
by mittfh
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While I've briefly discussed this in the Wiki3 thread, since more of you probably read the Wiki than contribute to it, I thought I'd make a separate post explaining the restructuring of the Wiki's
List of Canon Stories
.
Unsurprisingly, Mediawiki software (i.e. the code that runs the Wiki) isn't designed to handle tables containing 300+ rows and 11 columns (which, combined, take up over 4,000 lines of the underlying code), so when editing / previewing updates, it would take increasingly long amounts of time. To continue to use a single table for all the 2007-08 and 2016-17 academic year stories as well would be untenable.
So therefore I've split the tables of dated stories into three new pages, one for each of the three academic years the universe currently covers ( 2006-07 , 2007-08 , 2016-17 ). I've also added the proportion of uncertain dated stories that can definitively be placed in those academic years (e.g. Hobbies and Heckling, Tales of the MCO, GEO Vignettes).
The original page still contains the uncertain dated stories that can't be placed in a specific academic year (e.g. Razzle Dazzle [while the framing narrative's set in 2007, much of the content is set in previous decades], Envy [completely undated], Forging Anew [pre-Sundering])
However, that still leaves the problem of in which of the three academic years a story released on a particular date relates to, hence I've also created a Canon Stories by Release Date table that links to the relevant list, arranged by year/month (rows) and release date within the month (columns) - with the backgrounds of cells linking to the 'new' timelines (2007-08, 2016-17) coloured differently, both as a visual aid and as a means of double checking the link points to the right timeline! Currently, the release date table is strictly based on the stated release dates over here, but that's requiring me to edit the release dates in the 2006-07 table as over a third of them differ (i.e. the release date on the Wiki's List of Canon Stories differs from the release date over here - in many cases, by a single day [so probably due to time zone differences], but in a few cases there's a significant difference, so either I entered the release date wrong on the wiki when writing it from release on CH or it's been entered incorrectly over here). Release dates with a dark yellow background haven't been checked yet.
Now, all these extra pages are probably creating a rod for my own back in terms of updates, but as it is a wiki, anyone that can understand how it's structured is free to go in and add / edit things in any of the pages. I've included the current iteration of my word count script in the spoiler below - just create it as a bookmark, select everything between "A Whateley Academy Story" and "End" / "To be continued..." (hint: selecting the text works best if you start at the end and drag the selection up - that minimises the chances of accidentally selecting the contents of the Latest Articles panel as well), then click the bookmarklet.
Oh, and feel free to tidy up / edit any of the introductory blurb or guidance in the pages as well as the tables themselves.
Needless to say, if you have any comments / suggestions / corrections, post them below
Unsurprisingly, Mediawiki software (i.e. the code that runs the Wiki) isn't designed to handle tables containing 300+ rows and 11 columns (which, combined, take up over 4,000 lines of the underlying code), so when editing / previewing updates, it would take increasingly long amounts of time. To continue to use a single table for all the 2007-08 and 2016-17 academic year stories as well would be untenable.
So therefore I've split the tables of dated stories into three new pages, one for each of the three academic years the universe currently covers ( 2006-07 , 2007-08 , 2016-17 ). I've also added the proportion of uncertain dated stories that can definitively be placed in those academic years (e.g. Hobbies and Heckling, Tales of the MCO, GEO Vignettes).
The original page still contains the uncertain dated stories that can't be placed in a specific academic year (e.g. Razzle Dazzle [while the framing narrative's set in 2007, much of the content is set in previous decades], Envy [completely undated], Forging Anew [pre-Sundering])
However, that still leaves the problem of in which of the three academic years a story released on a particular date relates to, hence I've also created a Canon Stories by Release Date table that links to the relevant list, arranged by year/month (rows) and release date within the month (columns) - with the backgrounds of cells linking to the 'new' timelines (2007-08, 2016-17) coloured differently, both as a visual aid and as a means of double checking the link points to the right timeline! Currently, the release date table is strictly based on the stated release dates over here, but that's requiring me to edit the release dates in the 2006-07 table as over a third of them differ (i.e. the release date on the Wiki's List of Canon Stories differs from the release date over here - in many cases, by a single day [so probably due to time zone differences], but in a few cases there's a significant difference, so either I entered the release date wrong on the wiki when writing it from release on CH or it's been entered incorrectly over here). Release dates with a dark yellow background haven't been checked yet.
Now, all these extra pages are probably creating a rod for my own back in terms of updates, but as it is a wiki, anyone that can understand how it's structured is free to go in and add / edit things in any of the pages. I've included the current iteration of my word count script in the spoiler below - just create it as a bookmark, select everything between "A Whateley Academy Story" and "End" / "To be continued..." (hint: selecting the text works best if you start at the end and drag the selection up - that minimises the chances of accidentally selecting the contents of the Latest Articles panel as well), then click the bookmarklet.
Oh, and feel free to tidy up / edit any of the introductory blurb or guidance in the pages as well as the tables themselves.
Word count Javascript bookmarklet code
Needless to say, if you have any comments / suggestions / corrections, post them below
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
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