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Disambiguation of Ludography Cites (2019)
Thomas, we have finally found a need for further disambiguation in the ludo cites if I am not mistaken.
- Please check out Gimmick
- The edition parameter may need to be added since the name and version parameters are duplicates across the multiple versions of Secrets of the Ancients.
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 08:45, 7 February 2019 (EST)
- Thanks.
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 08:45, 7 February 2019 (EST)
niven chain
I apologize for the late response, I just discovered this function. I came across the "build the tools" phrase in Fleet of Worlds and it just stuck. Later I realized it also applies to the process of going from First Settlement to having a shipyard.
Do we really need two sets of nearly identical TL charts?
Right now now we two TL charts - one set with the Traveler TL and a nearly identical set with the Traveler and GURPS TLs. Is this really necessary? What real purpose does it serve? --BruceGrubb (talk) 09:51, 22 February 2019 (EST)
- We really don't need both. The problem is there are five TL charts: The Classic Traveller one (which ends to TL 15), the MT one (which ends at TL 20+), the GURPS 3rd one, the GURPS 4th one, and the Traveller 5th (which ends at TL 33). And there are internal differences for each one. So there are two charts: The in-universe one that belongs in the article, and the meta-game version that translates the five different Traveller rule set descriptions. I would agree at this point the whole thing is a mess however. Tjoneslo (talk) 16:14, 22 February 2019 (EST)
- Is there a way to combine them as we originally had and eliminate the redundancy? Oh if you are wondering I have a very quick and dirty conversion chart over on the GURPS wiki. Yes everything doesn't line up with regards to the individual categories but you can give people too much information and IMHO Traveler 5e has that in spades.--BruceGrubb (talk) 18:17, 22 February 2019 (EST)
Yay, the return of the Zowie worlds (2019)
Tjoneslo (talk) 10:09, 28 March 2019 (EDT)
I'm working off this list: Canon World & System Reference Log
- It's tedious work.
- We can always look up their locations in the next step.
- Your help would be appreciated.
- Trying to correlate all of the various names and duplications is a serious task.
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 17:12, 28 March 2019 (EDT)
I've done the initial pass on these worlds.
- Be well.
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 11:01, 30 March 2019 (EDT)
Done.
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 19:48, 6 April 2019 (EDT)
- Welcome.
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 05:58, 7 April 2019 (EDT)
Yay, also need to fix the Limerick's (2019)
https://wiki.travellerrpg.com/index.php?search=Limerick&title=Special%3ASearch&fulltext=1 Tjoneslo (talk) 07:50, 6 April 2019 (EDT)
Are you sure?
- I am not seeing what you are seeing...
- We appear to have a subsector and sector entry for this world. Both the same place... 0226.
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 19:48, 6 April 2019 (EDT)
- User:WHULorigan fixed all the references this afternoon. Tjoneslo (talk) 22:09, 6 April 2019 (EDT)
- Do we need a disambig page for Limerick?
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 05:59, 7 April 2019 (EDT)
- The issue was, like the Zowie worlds, that when the world template were copied into the pages, not all of the internal templates were updated. So there were ~80 worlds where the Atmosphere template was for "Limerick" with atmosphere 0. Rather than whatever was correct for the article. It's a simple fix and User:WHULorigan did all the grunt work. Tjoneslo (talk) 08:17, 7 April 2019 (EDT)
- Ok
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 11:47, 7 April 2019 (EDT)
changing username (2019)
The username I want to change to is my own name, Tom Chlebus. I'm not at all sure why I felt I needed a pseudonym in the first place and I have since decided I don't want "arglark" on my subsequent contributions.
- I have updated your user name to "Tom Chlebus". Your contributions to the wiki now appear as your updated user name. If you want to log into the wiki again, use the new username and your previous password. If you have any questions please ping me here. Tjoneslo (talk) 21:24, 5 May 2019 (EDT)
Thank you! Humorous note: I couldn't log in with my old username, and I couldn't get your message until I did, LOL. Fortunately trying my new username was the first thing to occur to me so it wasn't even an annoyance.
Star Notation on the World Template (2019)
Thomas, I think it's a good time to redesign the star notation on the world template.
- As we have seen when an infobox is designed with a header as is currently done, it makes it harder for our less trained volunteers to update it.
{{MonostellarSystem
|name = Prilissa Primary
|primary = K4 V
|PrimaryNotes = None
}}
- Template:BinaryStarSystem
- I would like us to redesign this piece so we can use a normal infobox as others and separate out the header.
- It seems prudent. Volunteers are volunteers. I have made the same corrections you have in the past a number of times.
- The new versions can be named MonostellarSystem2 for instance.
- Please let me know what you think.
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 21:00, 24 May 2019 (EDT)
Please make a new version of the template without a header-3... Then we go back manually and insert new headers as we update articles... Can let Greg know when it is done. He likes updating worlds. Greg Phillips. Ensign. Otherwise we have thousands of world entries to repair... With a new version, we can do it at our own pace.
- Thanks for your hard work.
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 10:29, 25 May 2019 (EDT)
Canon Addition to Template:Ship summary list (2019)
Thomas, would you please add a canon column to:
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 10:26, 30 May 2019 (EDT)
- Unfortunately you added the field without rebuilding the table. If I kick off the process it will mean no one should edit any ship articles until the regen is complete. I’ll try to kick it off tonight after you are done editing for the day. Or maybe tomorrow. Tjoneslo (talk) 20:30, 30 May 2019 (EDT)
Done.
- Thanks for the response.
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 20:43, 30 May 2019 (EDT)
It doesn't appear to be populating yet.
- Was it designed to read text or some other option?
- Or will it just take awhile to work?
- Thank you.
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 12:20, 31 May 2019 (EDT)
- https://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Special:CargoTables/Starships - The Starships table has completed populating with 1700+ entries. If you are looking at pages with the template, try the Purge Cache option. Tjoneslo (talk) 10:01, 31 May 2019 (EDT)
Thank you.
- I have tried the purge option on this page: Fighter
- It does not appear to be working yet.
- The next and last addition would be to add the ACS categories.
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 12:20, 31 May 2019 (EDT)
No, most of the entries have it.
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 17:30, 2 June 2019 (EDT)
I found the problem.
- Please redesign it to accept any text, not just binary yes or no.
- Most entries have a formulaic phrase rather than those binary entries.
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 17:33, 2 June 2019 (EDT)
- Yes, why use one word when you can use 17 to truly obfuscate to article. A review of several articles show there three phrases (with some variations). So even leaving the Canon parameter as Boolean (yes or no as the only values), we can have these phrases:
- Published, canon design.
- Unpublished, non-canon design.
- Published, non-canon design.
I didn't pick all of that phrasing. Input from MWM and fans were the biggest factors. We deal with what we have, not perfection.
- I recommend just leaving it as a text entry.
- We have volunteers and we can't make them all standardize so we work clever coding and lots of clever redirects.
- It's not optimal, but it is workable.
- Stop thinking like a bounded engineer or computer programmer, and start thinking like a top notch military officer or prosperous CEO.
- You can continue down the current path, but the frustration will never reduce.
- If you become a clever problem solver and flexible people manager, your stress and frustration will reduce.
- The mountain doesn't come to Mohammed, you go to it...
- Your call...
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 09:12, 3 June 2019 (EDT)
Selected Craft Using Dispersed Structure Hulls (2019)
The CBPUSAL hulls have a header to collect craft using the designated hull.
- Would you please design-write code that would allow us to input the selected hull type?
- Some of the CBPUSAL hulls have multiple subtypes so it will take some clever but doable coding.
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 17:30, 2 June 2019 (EDT)
- Right now there are three different parameters regarding hull design
- * Configuration - Primary Shape
- * Streamlining - Secondary design shape
- * CBPUSAL - Which seems to incorporate both of the above, but using the T5 design steps.
- High Guard (p.20) which seems to be the primary design system simply uses Configuration, and notes some configuration are streamlined. The T5 Configuration (CBPUSAL), is similar to the High Guard one. So the idea would be to use the CBPUSAL in the {{{hullshape}}} (new template) or {{{hull}}} (old template). This is one of these subtle issues about trying to shift design parameter from one design system to another.
- Or am I completely misunderstanding what you are on about? Tjoneslo (talk) 20:56, 2 June 2019 (EDT)
We're going to have to make decisions because there is overlap in hull categories and shape. It's fairly well mapped at Hull.
- CBPUSAL is easy.
- The others we or you will have to make subjective selections on.
- Because we're talking about many versions of Traveller and often conflicting and semantically overlapping definitions.
- Whatever decisions you make, or punt to me to make decisions to make, I will be good with. I might argue it a bit, but I'll probably just eave it alone.
- So essentially, like the TDES selection boxes:
{{Ship summary list|name= Battleship |tdes=BB}}
- We'll just have to select each hull type to go to a category.
- If it's built like that, we'll simply choose:
{{Hull summary list|name= Planetoid Hull |aerodynam= Unstreamlined Hull}}
{{Hull summary list|name= Buffered Planetoid Hull |hull= Buffered Planetoid Hull}}
- Hull summary list can pull from whichever category we ask for... (|aerodynam= OR |hull=)
- Sound reasonable?
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 09:19, 3 June 2019 (EDT)
Thank you.
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 07:41, 4 June 2019 (EDT)
Adding Size-cat to Ship Summary Tables (2019)
Hi Thomas, would you please assist in adding size-cat to the Ship summary tables?
- And please explain to me how to do it so I can learn from you.
- Template:InfoboxShip
- Template:Ship summary list
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 10:05, 13 June 2019 (EDT)
- Sorry, I thought I had explained that to you. After you make, and save, the changes to the table definition in the template, click on the "more" menu, and select the "Recreate Data" option. This will show the "Recreate Data" page. Click the Ok button to recreate the table, and generate the data.
- Important Note: Please plan your updates to the cargo table definitions. Doing too many of them quickly or editing the pages which use the template while the generation is ongoing can introduce subtle and annoying errors, mostly duplicated entries.
- Technical Details: Whenever you edit a template, it triggers a background task on the server to update all the articles which include the template. The background job runs every 10 minutes and processes between 100 and 200 articles per run. This is why the documentation page is separated onto the /doc page.
- When you recreate the data for a cargo template, it does the same thing. The same background job reads through 100 to 200 articles per run and adds the data into the new table. For the InfoboxShip template with ~1,800 articles this takes between 1.5 and 2.5 hours to complete. If you edit any of the ship articles, the background process may create a duplicate page in the data set. If you recreate the data before the process is complete the second updates start after the first is completed.
- I added the column "sizeCategory" for the "size-cat" parameter, to match the InfoboxShip2 table. It makes writing the queries for the Ship summary templates better.
- Tjoneslo (talk) 05:58, 14 June 2019 (EDT)
- I created the Template:Ship size categories for querying the size category. Tjoneslo (talk) 06:13, 14 June 2019 (EDT)
Ok. Thank you.
- Recreate data and be very patient.
- I just needed to wait.
- I experimented with this previously to no avail, but I just needed to wait awhile for the tables to rebuild.
- Thank you again.
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 09:45, 14 June 2019 (EDT)
Autogenerated Library Data Entries Oriented to the Left (2019)
Thomas, can you make Template:LibraryEntries orient to the left, please.
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 10:15, 29 June 2019 (EDT)
Thank you.
- Left them alone per your request.
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 20:23, 29 June 2019 (EDT)