User talk:Psymia

Welcome

Hi, welcome to Descent-Community Wiki 1.2! Thanks for your edit to the Forgotten Souls page.

Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything! Ursulaboi (talk) 08:31, April 16, 2015 (UTC)

Hey there. I've noticed you did a great job with edits. Great job! I've done my very first edit on Lyssa, because her bio was missing entirely. Would you mind taking a look to see if everything is fine?

InfinityBlack14 (talk) 03:27, May 14, 2016 (UTC)

Kyle....Err ... InfinityBlack14

InfinityBlack14 (talk) 03:27, May 14, 2016 (UTC)

Heya.
Thanks for adding content to this wiki :)

May i ask where you got Lyssa's bio from? Is this descriptive text in the expansion or in the conversion kit?

Flavour text is usually done in cursive, but i'm not sure if this counts as descriptive text or as flavour text.

Thanks.

Psymia (talk) 10:33, May 14, 2016 (UTC)

Infobox card

Nice work on Template:Infobox_card. Just scanned through the source, and it looks like you've put a lot of work into it. I have much to learn about wikimedia before I will have reached that level of mastery :)

Frenzied coder (talk) 17:22, May 21, 2016 (UTC)

Thank you :)

I started writing templates on the final fantasy 11 wiki (e.g. http://ffxi.gamerescape.com/wiki/Template:TrialPathElementalMagic ). It took me a hell of time to write these.

The problems are less with mediawiki and more getting the css right.

If you want to write your own templates it helps a lot to have a developement wiki (mine is at https://devwiki.skylabs.ch/index.php?title=InfoBox ) and bring the template into shape before deploying it live.

Psymia (talk) 19:05, May 21, 2016 (UTC)

Photo Quality

I just added some photos to Descent: Journeys in the Dark (Second Edition) for the shop items. The image quality kinda sucks compared to everything else on this wiki. Should I do more of these photos, or not bother? I feel a little self conscious for bringing down standard of image quality on this wiki, but I'm torn, because I am uploading content that's missing. (I don't have a scanner, just a camera on my phone.)

Frenzied coder (talk) 18:41, May 21, 2016 (UTC)

Hmmm. I don't think the photos are needed. The scans of the cards were there before. User:Ursulaboi removed them because of copyright.

Since then I've gotten permission by FFG to use them. Ursulaboi has given me the rights to undelete these files.

However i haven't really started undeleted them. Only tried it on Chainmail so far.

The thing is that i have to check all the files if they are below 72dpi.

Also the files are pretty big so i'm converting them to a different color space and optimise them a bit more for web usage.

In fact i will probably replace all the .jpg files in the long run with .png files. jpg doesn't support transparency, and it looks a bit shitty if you have white corners on the card scan. (compare Otherwordly with Upper Hand to see the difference).

I will restore the files when I'm converting the various pages to the infobox card template.

I have finished converting all the skills and am currently converting the relics.

After that i will probably continue with the items, and then the overlord cards.

If you'd like to help converting pages that would be welcome :)

Psymia (talk) 19:16, May 21, 2016 (UTC)

Sounds like you know what you're doing. Let me propose an idea to you: A table of data for all the shop cards that shows their price/slot/type/dice/everything in one place. This could be done with a literal table, or the lazier way to do it would be to combine all the card images into one big image that's roughly organized somehow. That was one of the goals of my photo of the entire shop, was to give me an idea of the average price of cards, the number of weapon upgrades available for each class, the max dice on a weapon, how many copies of each card were there, etc. Having a separate page for each card is great and fine, but there is also value to combining and condensing the information too.

So do you have a better idea than my photos? (I don't particularly like my photos; I won't be offended if there's a better idea.) For example, one obvious compromise is to combine a bunch of scan images together. Might be kinda lame, but it's probably better than status quo.

You know what would be really awesome, and I'm pretty sure this isn't possible, but it would be cool to automatically generate a table out of the stuff in the infoboxes. Last time I looked into doing that, it was way out of scope for what a wiki was designed to do.

I'd love to help out any way I can. I don't know how to undelete something. It looks like maybe only admins can do that. How else can I help?

Frenzied coder (talk) 19:49, May 21, 2016 (UTC)

You can do this with https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki --> https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Inline_queries I'm not sure what wikias stance is regarding installing this extension. Would have to ask.

Yeah the alternative would be to manually create a sortable table containing all the info. (Example: http://ffxi.gamerescape.com/wiki/Sword , scroll down to the "Swords by Level" table).

I'm not really fond if this idea since it creates multiple places with the same info. On the other hand, the input data is pretty stable and won't change ever.

Well if you just convert the pages and set the |image = to the filename which was there before i can add the files afterwards.

See Crossbow for an example.

Psymia (talk) 20:05, May 21, 2016 (UTC)

Alright, I updated Sling to use the infobox template and i removed all the manually listed categories. It looks like there's no way to specify a weapon as range vs melee. Is that a missing feature from the card infobox?

Frenzied coder (talk) 20:27, May 21, 2016 (UTC)

There is. Simply specify "|range= Melee" or "|range= Ranged". If you use an invalid range it will tell you :)

To see how to use the template for different kinds of cards take a look at the documentation of the template: Template:Infobox_card. Scroll down to "Usage for shop gear"

Psymia (talk) 20:30, May 21, 2016 (UTC)