[OOC] From Stardust, to Stardust: Tales of Andromeda, a Sci-Fi Fantasy RP

[Keyguyperson]

Key, are your people speaking Japanese? Or do they just have Japanese symbols on their stuff?

@Apollo26

They speak Japanese and use the written language, we can assume, however, that they use a botched google translate form.

We might run into some people that just use the symbols, though. Maybe possibly.

[Keyguyperson]

Just so everyone knows, our wiki is still horribly unorganized. It'd be nice to have a way to find pages other than the main index and the "Recently Changed" category. I'm saying we need categories. Like, the ones on the bar, the ones that should take the place of "category#1" and "category#2".

EDIT: A "Locations" category would be nice too, I'm itching to explain the geography of Shōrino'ba.

[Alfhedil]

This can easily be done, I would just need access to the CSS, a good bit of time to check the coding, and an actual computer to do so with. As useful as my phone is, it is no good at posting anything larger than th

[darkwolf687]

Oh no! Keyguyninja'd me, I was going to transcribe the transport methods onto the ftl travel section, guess I'll have to make a new page for the JCTD, doh lol

[Willy Vereb]

Oh no! Keyguyninja'd me, I was going to transcribe the transport methods onto the ftl travel section, guess I'll have to make a new page for the JCTD, doh lol

@darkwolf687

It was actually me.
And your quicker edit made me almost rewrite the whole thing again due to my inexperience.
Anyways, I made a big change to the FTL Travel page.
With another edit I also included your own type of FTL travel.
Still, I'd advise you to rewrite that into a shorter form.
You can use the more detailed version for the transdimensional drive's own page.

[darkwolf687]

<Snipped quote by darkwolf687>It was actually me.
And your quicker edit made me almost rewrite the whole thing again due to my inexperience.
Anyways, I made a big change to the FTL Travel page.
With another edit I also included your own type of FTL travel.
Still, I'd advise you to rewrite that into a shorter form.
You can use the more detailed version for the transdimensional drive's own page.

@Willy Vereb

Oops, sorry.

[Willy Vereb]

@Keyguyperson@darkwolf687I don't think we should include the FTL techs on the main page.
That way it's going to be filled with various stuff very quick.
Then again, now that I think about it, this is just a droplet in the ocean.
I have at least 3-4 technologies I want to add and I'm relatively insignificant compared to other civ in the RP.
I think we may wish to make other categories in that page.

[Alfhedil]

FTL tech is arguably the most important tech a civ could have, seeing as how it enables a planetary civilization to become interstellar. Of course, as more is added to the wiki, I'll adjust the section as needed.

[Willy Vereb]

FTL tech is arguably the most important tech a civ could have, seeing as how it enables a planetary civilization to become interstellar. Of course, as more is added to the wiki, I'll adjust the section as needed.

@Alfhedil

It's just we have a group page for various forms of FtL travel already so it seems to be redundant.
I actually plan a similar group page for energy sources.

[Alfhedil]

Yes, and having it accessible from the main page is most ideal. As soon as there is a page for general energy sources, I will also create a link for that one.

[Willy Vereb]

@AlfhedilHaving FTL Travel itself as a sub-category would be preferable albeit I'm not sure if it'd work.
Speaking of which I completely forgot how to make sub-categories.
I'd have already done that to my Morte civ otherwise.

[Alfhedil]

To make a sub-category, all you need to do is first create the sub-category and populate it with pages. Once it is an actual category, go down to the bottom and drop it into the category you want it to belong to, just like a normal page. If everything goes right, you will now have a sub-category.

[Alfhedil]

Alright, tried to edit the CSS, and found that I can't because I'm not admin, and it's a protected page. Here's a bit of a primer instead, for @Duck55223 in case he wishes to edit it up to make it look purdy.

First is how the sections are ordered:

*Major Factions
**#category:The Dominion#
**#category:The Eight World's Empire#
**#category:The Morte Imperium#
*Universe Information
**#category:Characters#
**#category:Small Arms#
**#category:Species#
**#category:Starships#

This replaces the second two tabs up top with the tabs "Major Factions" and "Universe Information", and below those two will be the drop-down menus ascribed below each heading. Using the **#category:# tag will allow a second drop-down menu to form, that will automatically draw upon pages inside that category, or you can click the heading itself to go directly to that category page. Using a single asterisk before a heading will denote it as a First Tab, and two asterisks before a heading will denote it as a Second Tab, going under the First Tab directly before it. Also, note that while you can use categories for the Second Tabs, you cannot create an automatically populating list as a First Tab. The reason for this is the way in which "Magic Words" work in the coding of the Wikia CSS, generally just down to coding that needs to be as simple as possible.

*Major Factions
**The Dominion
**The Eight World's Empire
**The Morte Imperium
*Universe Information
**#category:Characters#
**#category:Small Arms#
**#category:Species#
**#category:Starships#

In this second example, the navigation panel will create instead direct-links to the pages noted. This can be used as a way to link important pages that don't belong in specific categories, or factions that are central to the story. Be cautious with this, however, for using this method quickly breaks the navigation panel due to length of page names. This also holds true for the first example, which could lead to having to select a few main factions, and then a final category that lists other factions.

If anyone has any questions on it, feel free to ask, dealing with Wikia coding is actually something I quite like when it works.

[KaiserAuto]

I feel not-so-major now.

[Durandal]

I am really sorry everyone. I just didn't know what to write earlier but that's past. Working on the post right now.

[Alfhedil]

I feel not-so-major now.

@KaiserAuto

It was just an example, I went for the first three I thought of D:

[KaiserAuto]

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It was just an example, I went for the first three I thought of D:

@Alfhedil

NOT-SO-MAJOR!

[Alfhedil]

<Snipped quote by Alfhedil>

NOT-SO-MAJOR!

@KaiserAuto

What Kaiser is doing.

[null123]

If you drop your wikia username I will gib admin permissions when I get a computer, I am also lazy and need to write posts.

[Alfhedil]

I'm Shimmerene on the Wikia, let me know if there's a certain way you would prefer to see the navigation laid out, as well as anything else that could be done with the CSS.