I humbly thank most glorious piecewise for considering my work worthy of so many tokens.
Most of the work I've done is at the old Nyars artifact page and the templates. Plus helping gather stuff like character descriptions and active character capabilities to help RC before the days of the wiki with my google doc and info post.
Not that active right now, beside some infrequent edits, updating my inventory and my work with templates.
In other news, I've changed the player character category to simply
character, since there were some NPCs there as well. You could even put an entry for the armoury master and the doctor if you want and turn the one in the NPC page into a short description linking to the actual page.
The PC template now further autocategorizes people based on their status into various subcategories.
I was a bit agressive with marking people as Inactive, so I might have put some actually active people there. I believe the problem will be easily resolved once one of them posts.
There is the "NPC Character" category there to make the grammar nazis and syntax commies froth at the mouth.
It is interesting to note that we have more than 100 characters and more than a third of them are active.
There are also more than 20 dead... Let's see if we will double that number with this mission...
@Paris. Neat thing that character auto-categorization. I was thinking about it some time ago and was going to suggest it at some point of time.
Is it possible to make "While still alive, this character is no longer part of the game, due to player inactivity." note as part of template?
Sure. I'll just put it at the end.
Templates at their basest form are nothing more than a way to save time and not having to copypaste. They literally just copy everything you put in them on the page, with the added bonus of being able to provide arguments for them.
More detailed explanation of the template autocategorization follows:
This is the end of the PC template
<includeonly>
{{#switch:{{{status|Unknown}}}
|Alive = [[Category:Active Character|{{PAGENAME}}]]
|Inactive = [[Category:Inactive Character|{{PAGENAME}}]]
|Dead = [[Category:Dead Character|{{PAGENAME}}]]
|Permadead = [[Category:Dead Character|{{PAGENAME}}]]
|KIA = [[Category:Dead Character|{{PAGENAME}}]]
|NPC = [[Category:NPC Character|{{PAGENAME}}]]
|[[Category:Character|{{PAGENAME}}]]
}}
</includeonly>
As you can see, it simply compares the status variable with a number of strings and puts them in the appropriate subcategory, defaulting to the parent category if it doesn't match any of the cases. Note that case (upper-case/lower-case) is important.
The includeonly tag tells the wiki to only copypaste that part when the template is actually used, so that the template page itself is not be put in the Character category.
It works the same way for the information text:
{{#switch:{{{status|Unknown}}}
|Inactive = <b>While still alive, this character is no longer part of the game, due to player inactivity.</b>
|
}}
Feel free to change this to add more descriptions or subcategories.
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