Talk:Varisia, Birthplace of Legends
Is there a convention for determining what still needs incorporated from each book? Does it make sense for the book's talk page to hold that info? FoiledAgain (talk) 19:00, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
- I created an Index for City of Strangers a while back, you could use that as an example. --Brandingopportunity (talk) 21:53, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
- I'm not sure I want to know how long it takes to make an index - but, maybe I'll find out someday. I was thinking of some sort of coordinating mechanism, so, for example, a new editor wouldn't dig through a book that had already been "finished" (all appropriate info incorporated into the wiki). FoiledAgain (talk) 03:07, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
- It takes a long time :) so you're looking for something more akin to the Insea world guide inclusion initiative then? -- Cpt kirstov (talk) 12:41, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
- Aha! Thanks for the pointer. FoiledAgain (talk) 01:59, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
- That page is what still needs to be updated from the The Inner Sea World Guide, but you could make a Varisia, Birthplace of Legends/inclusion page to track if you want. -- Cpt kirstov (talk) 17:52, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
- It's an interesting point you raise, FoiledAgain, that I too have been pondering. As well as the ISWGII we have the Project:Dragon Empires Gazetteer Inclusion Initiative as that is considered a major 'baseline' book for the campaign. For other publications, we could potentially do a similar thing bit they may get missed. My current approaches to help ensure we get everything / bring structure to the wiki are: --Fleanetha (talk) 11:08, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
- add an Update to a page where new information needs incorporating and list the sources on the talk page, you've seen this already as you've been doing some good work on Shoanti, etc.
- add all new stuff to my User:Fleanetha/Sandbox2 so we get a red link for a page that needs creating or a blue link for a page that needs updating / checking. Please feel free to look there and if you make/update a page just cross through the link there. Sometimes I'll put this information in the discussion page of the main article as part of the 'updates required' section. I am currently avoiding blue links in this sandbox though as an update bar is probably better if a page already exists.
- Make a template where there is a lot of data about a subject that can be organized. Again this will show by red links what is missing in a structured fashion. See Template:Magnimar navbox for an example of collating entries needed from a book.
- Finally, as Brandingopportunity points out above, indexing a book is probably the most professional way of showing what is needed from each book as a red link will be shown for missing pages. Again blue links though won't show what needs updating from a source so an update bar is really the best way to do that again.
- If you have pdf version of the Paizo books you can search all of them with a single search for a particular subject too (I owe Cpt kirstov for this essential advice): use [SHIFT][CTRL]F to get the dialogue box and select the folder area where you have your Paizo books.
- Finally, I am moving this discussion to the Forum as I think it has general interest and will be lost if it remains in a book's talk page. Please continue the discussion there.
- It's an interesting point you raise, FoiledAgain, that I too have been pondering. As well as the ISWGII we have the Project:Dragon Empires Gazetteer Inclusion Initiative as that is considered a major 'baseline' book for the campaign. For other publications, we could potentially do a similar thing bit they may get missed. My current approaches to help ensure we get everything / bring structure to the wiki are: --Fleanetha (talk) 11:08, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
- That page is what still needs to be updated from the The Inner Sea World Guide, but you could make a Varisia, Birthplace of Legends/inclusion page to track if you want. -- Cpt kirstov (talk) 17:52, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
- Aha! Thanks for the pointer. FoiledAgain (talk) 01:59, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
- It takes a long time :) so you're looking for something more akin to the Insea world guide inclusion initiative then? -- Cpt kirstov (talk) 12:41, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
- I'm not sure I want to know how long it takes to make an index - but, maybe I'll find out someday. I was thinking of some sort of coordinating mechanism, so, for example, a new editor wouldn't dig through a book that had already been "finished" (all appropriate info incorporated into the wiki). FoiledAgain (talk) 03:07, 1 October 2012 (UTC)