If you missed the last meeting, you might not have heard about the structure data that's being added to wiki pages. What is that, you ask? Well, basically it's tagging pages with nuggets of data (like for example tagging character pages with ranks or occupation or species). If namespaces or pages are added to a schema (think of a little database) under the main edit field you'll see some extra boxes. These fields are actually hugely useful to the site because they can be used to make lists of characters like:
Speaking of growing pains...
We've updated the way that ranks work in struct data. Instead of looking up a rank page, it talks to the new stararmy_ranks database and provides a convenient dropdown. The purpose was continuing work to try to get ranks to sort by rank on crew roster. Unfortunately this means all rank fields on character bios will have to be updated to use the new system. If you're a GM you can change your crew roster to use the column saoy_rank_old instead of saoy_rank if you want to use the old data for now.
As I continue to roll out new struct stuff, I'm going to use this thread to post updates.
Also, we have TONS and TONS of older pages that need to be tagged with data so they're findable. I have been doing this almost all by myself and need help with the workload. Please help me. You can offer help in this thread and I'll assign you a small task like "update struct data for all star systems that start with P on this page" and if we work as a community it will go fast.
- Listing every SAOY character who hasn't been promoted in over 3 years
- Listing all Elysian characters
- Listing all locations in the setting and sorting them by type and faction
- Finding all the Star Army's clerks
- AUTOMATED CREW ROSTERS THE GM DOESN'T HAVE TO EDIT or go into "wiki code table hell" for!
- Automatically updated list of playable species (already implemented)
Speaking of growing pains...
We've updated the way that ranks work in struct data. Instead of looking up a rank page, it talks to the new stararmy_ranks database and provides a convenient dropdown. The purpose was continuing work to try to get ranks to sort by rank on crew roster. Unfortunately this means all rank fields on character bios will have to be updated to use the new system. If you're a GM you can change your crew roster to use the column saoy_rank_old instead of saoy_rank if you want to use the old data for now.
As I continue to roll out new struct stuff, I'm going to use this thread to post updates.
Also, we have TONS and TONS of older pages that need to be tagged with data so they're findable. I have been doing this almost all by myself and need help with the workload. Please help me. You can offer help in this thread and I'll assign you a small task like "update struct data for all star systems that start with P on this page" and if we work as a community it will go fast.