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Does this seem to be of use? In my head, this might be a standalone page like "List of official Minitures and products" or something. My frame of reference is something like (edit: can't link yet, but main Wikipedia, page is called List_of_Magic:_The_Gathering_sets), which has a few paragraphs to explain what's happening, but is otherwise an info dump. MTG has 20K+ cards with 100k+ printings, so it can't list every card, but BattleTech seems to have a few hundred models at most. Maybe listing them is possible, maybe a database would be better. Who knows! [[User:AlekBalderdash|AlekBalderdash]] ([[User talk:AlekBalderdash|talk]]) 00:06, 27 December 2022 (EST) | Does this seem to be of use? In my head, this might be a standalone page like "List of official Minitures and products" or something. My frame of reference is something like (edit: can't link yet, but main Wikipedia, page is called List_of_Magic:_The_Gathering_sets), which has a few paragraphs to explain what's happening, but is otherwise an info dump. MTG has 20K+ cards with 100k+ printings, so it can't list every card, but BattleTech seems to have a few hundred models at most. Maybe listing them is possible, maybe a database would be better. Who knows! [[User:AlekBalderdash|AlekBalderdash]] ([[User talk:AlekBalderdash|talk]]) 00:06, 27 December 2022 (EST) | ||
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+ | :Another page to examine is [[List of BattleTech products]]. This is closer to the style of what you are considering, but it is focused on all products as a whole. However I also believe that there is an effort afoot to try to make that more automated by updating the product template. [[User:Deadfire]] is one who is working on that. So I would encourage that | ||
+ | You drop a message on his talk page [[User talk:Deadfire]]. He is also active on the Sarna Discord | ||
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+ | :With regards to individual miniatures, as opposed to miniature sets, we do not have individual pages for each mini/model, and doing such would likely be a bit unwieldy (which is why we have the list pages). There may be ways to improve some of the list pages, but we are also balancing editor accessibility with final readability on a wiki platform, and so one constraint is that there is not a true backend database. See [[Miniatures - Iron Wind Metals]] and [[MechWarrior: Dark Age Sets (Collections)]] to get a sense of the longer lists or list summaries. | ||
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+ | : I haven't had a chance to a deep look at the examples you shared yet. I am about to head out the door here. But I will circle back around to process those more. --[[User:Dude RB|Dude RB]] ([[User talk:Dude RB|talk]]) 07:45, 27 December 2022 (EST) |
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Welcome
-- New user message (talk) 20:34, 26 December 2022 (EST)
Welcome and some info
Welcome to Sarna. I saw your user page post. Given your interests and comments, I thought I would point you to some additional information that may be helpful. (Our interests do overlap.) For a sense of what information currently exists in Sarna about miniatures, please feel free to take a look at Category:Miniatures and Miniatures. Category:Miniature Sets is a specific to miniature products, so that particular category page does not capture everything tied to miniatures. These further pages may help you in developing both your ideas and a sense of Sarna needs. Please feel free to reach out to me or the wiki admins with questions, ideas, etc. The Discord channel is also a good resource. --Dude RB (talk) 21:36, 26 December 2022 (EST)
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Not sure if this is how replies work? Seems weird, was expecting a DM system.
Anyway, I vaguely recall seeing some of those pages when I had first started, but didn't have enough context to understand what they were saying. They're all word heavy, I'm a fan of (sortable!) tables.
I updated my profile with a first pass at what I was thinking. Tables like this are the sort of thing I tend to make in Excel, and I keep finding it odd that this sort of thing isn't already on Sarna.
Does this seem to be of use? In my head, this might be a standalone page like "List of official Minitures and products" or something. My frame of reference is something like (edit: can't link yet, but main Wikipedia, page is called List_of_Magic:_The_Gathering_sets), which has a few paragraphs to explain what's happening, but is otherwise an info dump. MTG has 20K+ cards with 100k+ printings, so it can't list every card, but BattleTech seems to have a few hundred models at most. Maybe listing them is possible, maybe a database would be better. Who knows! AlekBalderdash (talk) 00:06, 27 December 2022 (EST)
- For replies, it is customary to reply with one higher indentation level. So one colon will indent one level. A reply to a reply would use two colons to indent two levels, etc.
- Another page to examine is List of BattleTech products. This is closer to the style of what you are considering, but it is focused on all products as a whole. However I also believe that there is an effort afoot to try to make that more automated by updating the product template. User:Deadfire is one who is working on that. So I would encourage that
You drop a message on his talk page User talk:Deadfire. He is also active on the Sarna Discord
- With regards to individual miniatures, as opposed to miniature sets, we do not have individual pages for each mini/model, and doing such would likely be a bit unwieldy (which is why we have the list pages). There may be ways to improve some of the list pages, but we are also balancing editor accessibility with final readability on a wiki platform, and so one constraint is that there is not a true backend database. See Miniatures - Iron Wind Metals and MechWarrior: Dark Age Sets (Collections) to get a sense of the longer lists or list summaries.