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Revision as of 07:22, 30 July 2013
As the Broken Man mentions on the Main_Page, this site took some damage. It's part of the challenges of living in the age of the 'tubes of internets.' We are in the midst of a rebuilding campaign and we welcome all the help we can get. Most of the character pages that we had are gone. Some are recoverable (see below), and some will need to be rebuilt from scratch.
That's the bad news.
The good news is we are back and we are making great progress with the rebuilding. For some of you veterans, you will see that we are improving the templates used for building character pages, and are just beginning the process of incorporating them into the initial batch of pages that are currently linked and displayable. So most of what you see is a hodgepodge of contents. Thrown together bits of old data with little to no formatting. Read on if you are interested
in contributing to the restoration process of the officially sanctioned website, dedicated to the award winning comic series Astro City.
Contents
General Editing Tools
Herocopia.com is a MediaWiki website. Do you 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
We will also be adding some Herocopia specific guidelines as time permits.
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
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Mr. Smartie Notes: rough outline here - more (lots) to add later --Infobroker (talk) 04:33, 26 July 2013 (PDT) |
We've got templates. Not very many, but for editing Characters, these work great. They work for Heroes and Villains (the templates signed a neutrality clause) and for now, can even be used for Teams, Civilians, and even City related pages. Plans are in place to design special templates for these other page categories as time permits. But for now think of the character templates as being generic, and use them wherever you feel you can make them work for whatever content you are doing.
Two major templates are in place for now.
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 the Silver Agent and Astra Furst.
In the coming weeks, these two templates are also undergoing major editing work, mainly cosmetic. But any future changes made in the templates, should not effect the outer mechanics of using them. See each templates' associated documentations pages for more information.
