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| − | Each template has several parameters (all optional) that can be filled in where appropriate. It will depend on the character, how much information is available from the stories, or if the information applies. Currently two of the best examples | + | Each template has several parameters (all optional) that can be filled in where appropriate. It will depend on the character, how much information is available from the stories, or if the information applies. Currently two of the best examples are [[Silver Agent]] and [[Astra Furst]]. |
The two templates have editing work, mainly cosmetic. But future changes there, should not effect the mechanics of using them. | The two templates have editing work, mainly cosmetic. But future changes there, should not effect the mechanics of using them. | ||
Revision as of 09:42, 9 July 2013
Contents
General Editing Tools
Herocopia.com is a MediaWiki website. Want to contribute, but do not know how to edit pages? These guides might be of help.
- MediaWiki Users' Handbook
- Wikipedia's style guidelines - lots of good style tips here.
- How-to... in Wikipedia
Become a Digital Archeologist For Herocopia
One of the most precious aspects of the Herocopia Project has been the accumulation of a massive warehouse of information about the Characters of Astro City. Unfortunately, Herocopia.com underwent a serious crash that left a lot of interesting data for and about Astro City hanging in the limbos of the massively complex cavities of the internet. We are working diligently to restore as much of this previous information as possible.
We have been searching the web for old saved Herocopia pages, along with checking local hard-drives of veteran contributors. We have discovered that the Wayback Machine located at www.archive.org is a fairly good source and can be mined for herocopia.com content from the past. The only problem, it requires a lot of hand editing to bring it back to a format suitable for mediawiki development and deployment.
First steps are simple, just a bit tedious.
- Use the Wayback Machine site to find old Herocopia webpages. See links sections below.
- Be sure to check the Wayback timeline to find the best capture of data from the original Herocopia site. Dates from 2009 are proving the most fruitful, but it can vary dramatically from page to page.
- Copy the text (not the page source) to your computer's clipboard.
- Head back here to the new Herocopia site and dump the text to that character's page. Create a new page if needed.
- Later on, you or a fellow Herocopia author can incorporate the old raw information into the new template structures that we use now. (More information on how to do this will be forthcoming).
Links
http://web.archive.org/web/20090217195513/http://herocopia.com/index.php/Category:Heroes
http://web.archive.org/web/20100401223306/http://www.herocopia.com/index.php/Category:Villains
http://web.archive.org/web/20100401223551/http://www.herocopia.com/index.php/Category:Teams
http://web.archive.org/web/20100401223253/http://www.herocopia.com/index.php/Category:Civilians
http://web.archive.org/web/20100401223556/http://www.herocopia.com/index.php/Category:The_City
Constructing a Character Page
--Infobroker (talk) 19:11, 8 July 2013 (PDT) rough outline - more (lots) to add
Two major templates
- character infobox
- character page
Each template has several parameters (all optional) that can be filled in where appropriate. It will depend on the character, how much information is available from the stories, or if the information applies. Currently two of the best examples are Silver Agent and Astra Furst.
The two templates have editing work, mainly cosmetic. But future changes there, should not effect the mechanics of using them.
