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Game series

2 comments • 17:14, 20 July 2012 17:14, 20 July 2012

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Andytizer (talkcontribs)

I am hoping I can get your input on an idea for presenting game series.

So my basic idea is to present every game in a series, or every related game. For example, a Doom series would include Doom, Doom II: Hell on Earth, Doom 3, Doom 4. An example of a very long series would be Command and Conquer. It may or may not be a good policy to leave out expansion packs, not sure. A second column could be the year of first release.

Naming convention for transclusion? Maybe we could put everything in a series.. Series:Doom?

My thought is to put this floating on the right under the infobox, with the same kind of styling. What do you think? Then it'll have a consistent place on every game page.

My other thought is to adjust the infobox styling to make it look nicer, and more like the Wikipedia infobox? For example, left-aligned text, vertically aligned top, alternating background coloured rows (nice but not important).

14:07, 19 July 2012 14:07, 19 July 2012

Masked Turk (talkcontribs)

Sounds good. I'd include dependant expansions as a branch within game series episodes, and standalone expansions as separate episodes tbh, I think...
I'm unsure, really. Part of me would like to make use of namespaces like that, but another part of me recognises that most wikis keep encyclopaedic articles in the mainspace (i.e. no xxx:article name)
Style-wise, that's exactly how I'd imagine it being laid out.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by more like the Wikipedia infoboxes, in that ours are an exact rip-off *of* the Wikipedia infoboxes. But I do understand the minor tweaks to the text, and I suppose they'd make sense. It'd give us a chance to reconsider the infobox code too :p

17:14, 20 July 2012 17:14, 20 July 2012