SotAWiki:Wiki Merge

To organize the move of pages from http://wiki.ultimacodex.com/sota

Method
I've just been going through All Pages alphabetically and occasionally haring off on groups of similar things (like Skills).

For working together we should probably break things out by Categories. (Although we could just grab sections of the alphabet)


 * Pages
 * Skills
 * Required is now in the template.
 * Copy description text directly from Magic, Combat, and Crafting Skills here
 * Air Magic Skills - Fenyx4
 * Blades Skills
 * Bludgeon Skills
 * Chaos Magic Skills
 * Death Magic Skills - Fenyx4
 * Earth Magic Skills - Fenyx4
 * Fire Magic Skills
 * Gambeson Combat Skills - Fenyx4
 * Life Magic Skills
 * Ranged Skills - Fenyx4
 * Shield Skills - Fenyx4
 * Sun Magic Skills - Fenyx4
 * Water Magic Skills
 * Items/Recipes
 * Most or all are probably already here. But worth giving a look over.
 * Get familiarized with Template:Crafting_Box.
 * Need to add something to Template:Infobox Item that ties the item to the skill it uses. See Bludgeon Combat's use of Template:Query item
 * Bestiary
 * Haven't looked at this yet. Check out Category:Monsters.
 * Developer Info
 * Blade of the Avatar
 * NPCs
 * Locations
 * 'Infobox Location' instead of 'Infobox Locations'
 * Category:Locations isn't automatically added by the template. You'll have to add it manually.


 * Files
 * Files are hard. Not sure how to easily check if the file already exists over here.\
 * Concept Art
 * Illustrations
 * Images will warn if they are exact duplicates, but if they don't match exactly then we will have to do a pass through the files list to de-duplicate. Shouldnt be too much of a hassle yet.--Browncoat Jayson (talk) 19:36, 7 March 2014 (MST)

Problems
Things I'm not sure how to merge; Not sure if sotawiki has these under different names or not.
 * Housing
 * It looks like there are only a couple topics for this here: a general Housing topic, and a catch-all Backer Houses with just images. If there isn't an issue, I'd be happy to break them out for each house, with the walkthrough videos and links. --Browncoat Jayson (talk) 18:30, 6 March 2014 (MST)
 * Sounds good to me. -- Fenyx4 (talk) 19:58, 6 March 2014 (MST)
 * I added Tower Village Home as a test. Looks like the YouTube media add-in and Interwiki linking are not installed yet (or I don't have access). These might be broken until the server move. Otherwise, I think they it looks good! --Browncoat Jayson (talk) 22:42, 6 March 2014 (MST)
 * And of course, now I find it in the Add-on Store category as Tower Village Home (digital). Argh! --Browncoat Jayson (talk) 22:46, 6 March 2014 (MST)
 * Tower Village Home (digital) is very reward/add-on centric and, I think, does a slightly better job of communicating stuff about that. But Tower Village Home has a lot more information about how it will be used in game and with the infobox 'n' all matches the format of the rest of the wiki. (And I don't understand why it needs the '(digital)' appellation in the page name.)
 * I don't claim to understand details on rewards and add-ons so take this with a grain of salt. But I feel like grab additional information from Tower Village Home (digital), put it in Tower Village Home and then make Tower Village Home (digital) a redirect to Tower Village Home. -- Fenyx4 (talk) 08:42, 7 March 2014 (MST)
 * We were using the (digital) and (physical) for the different items because of backer rewards. Some things will be the same such as town lot deed (digital) and town lot deed (physical) and then town lot deed... all should be pages because they're all different based on the conversations I had with some of the other wiki editors.  If we want to change that and do it differently we can but that was the reasoning behind it. Violation (talk) 17:46, 7 March 2014 (MST)
 * Additionally, the items match their add-on store description that way as well. Violation (talk) 17:48, 7 March 2014 (MST)
 * Oh, for videos there is a different extension on here. See Template:SotaWiki_Featured_Video for an example. I haven't used it yet but it will probably work about the same. Interwiki will be something I will add once it has moved servers. -- Fenyx4 (talk) 08:45, 7 March 2014 (MST)
 * I can see matching the Add-On Store descriptions, but then they won't match the in game descriptions. So, I guess I would have assumed the in game trumping, but we can do it either way. Just something that needs to be decided on. --Browncoat Jayson (talk) 19:36, 7 March 2014 (MST)

Similar problem to housing. Old wiki treated it as an item. This wiki treats it as an add-on. We should do both. We can probably do it the same as houses above. -- Fenyx4 (talk) 13:05, 7 March 2014 (MST)
 * The XXX of Prosperity
 * It is both an add-on and an item, infoboxes or sections might include add-on related information like purchasing the item, but the page should look like the other pages of its type, so if it is an item, the page should have the standard item page contents with add-on related information included in appropriate sections or templates. So I think Tower Village Home is a good example on how a specific object (house, item, mobile, decoration, etc.) that can be purchased from the add-on store should look like. Gordias (talk) 13:09, 8 March 2014 (MST)

Logo
To symbolize the merge, perhaps we could combine our logos?


 * 1) [[File:Logo2.png]]
 * 2) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8241566/Logo2.png
 * 3) [[File:Logo5.png]]
 * 4) http://www.fenyx4.com/images/logo-example.png

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8241566/Logo2.png
 * I like it! But I might be biased.
 * Do you think Terilem's dark version would fit better with the dark theme? -- Fenyx4 (talk) 19:58, 6 March 2014 (MST)
 * I think you're right, the dark version would look better! --Browncoat Jayson (talk) 22:42, 6 March 2014 (MST)
 * I'd rather keep the SotA wiki favicon that is to the left and remake the sotawiki.net text... but honestly I'd be fine changing it if it helps it feel more like home for everyone. I would like to get this done (the logo change) as soon as we transfer so more conversation on this would be nice.  Branding is important for people to know they're on the right site.  Whatever we end up with lets get it and keep it through at least episode 1. Violation (talk) 17:52, 7 March 2014 (MST)  (p.s. there's a chance we won't be dark forever so making a logo that looks good on both dark and light might be good).
 * Either is fine; it looks odd now because it just says "SotA Wiki" twice in different fonts, so I thought the icon would set it off. --Browncoat Jayson (talk) 19:36, 7 March 2014 (MST)
 * So lets see about getting some feedback from a few others... I'm going to want to change the favicon to match the icon and not the text (if we do decide to go with that icon). I might try my hand at making a new logo for us too... to throw another option on the table. Violation (talk) 22:48, 7 March 2014 (MST)
 * The current SotA Wiki logo is Logo.png, side by side, they look like:
 * [[File:Wiki logos.png]]
 * I like them both (the darker one of  version too), I don't like the text version (sotawiki.net) though. Maybe we can find a way to use the two logos above together.Gordias (talk) 13:09, 8 March 2014 (MST)