User talk:UDID

Discuss project below

Please, no more welcomes. One was enough.

How?

Hi,

Interesting project to say the least, how do you plan on going about this? PB&J 06:59, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

Thank you! See discussion (move pending), but basically webcrawler/wikibot, which is why I'm soliciting suggestions for formatting, etc. (Should probably use templates to easily format this all, for starters.) UDID (talk) 11:25, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

Templates would be the easiest yes, although I'm curious to hear how you'll handle the general structure: one giant list is not something most browsers would like, nor would it be very useful. Alphabetical? Numerical based on character ID? Etc. PB&J 11:28, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

I assumed there wouldn't be a master list, just a navigable set of subpages. E.g. if you wanted character #1989226, you'd go to User:UDID/1989226. Bob Moncrief ^EBD•W! 11:44, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

That is indeed the plan, although as character names are unique, a by-name cross-reference is also planned (e.g. User:UDID/N/Bub). The wiki search tool will mean we'll have full-text search available, and that plus substring page title searching should make it the equal or superior of any profile search tool yet.

Getting the exact data/page structure right is going to be an important part of this project. Already wondering what the best way to do this is— sub-subpages, like DangerReport? That would have the advantage of allowing people to reformat the data as they like without being tied to a specific presentation format. Disadvantage: lots of tiny pages, large amount of edits, lots of moving parts. As am already planning to use automation, possibly better to save that for a future version 2, and focus on getting a workable version 1 up and running— that way, if I disappear at least there'll be something for people to go on with. UDID (talk) 12:12, 28 July 2016 (UTC)