User talk:Loci

I've been seeing your edits on the recent changes page for a while now. Good job. :-) Emufarmers 08:22, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

Creature Type Pages

Are those supposed to be stub articles, or did you mean to create them as categories? --Quietust 22:28, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Mainly I created them as stub articles so I would have somewhere to link the "interesting" attributes in the creature info box. That way the info box can just say "No Stun" with a link to more information if the user desires, but without cluttering up the info box with excessive common knowledge. While I also considered adding these tags as categories to the proper creature pages, I haven't put in the time to make that all work yet. --Loci 22:35, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Eh, I tried to set up categories for the various "interesting" attributes, but the creature pages would display the categories without actually being assigned to the categories. Presumably it was a problem with transclusion depth, or formatting, or something. Someone more familiar with the system could probably get it to work, but I didn't feel like spending any more time on the problem so I removed the categories. --Loci 12:39, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

That's because you were just inserting page links - if you wanted to put them in categories, you should've used [[Category:DF2012:whatever]] rather than just [[whatever]]. --Quietust 13:52, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Not quite. I actually had added the categories using the {{Category|foo}} template, but removed them because they didn't work. Your links aren't working for me, either. When I click on Category:DF2012:Flying, for instance, I get "This category currently contains no pages or media." If, however, I add the category template {{Category|Flying}} to a creature page directly, the creature shows up on the category page. However, I certainly don't want to modify each and every creature page individually, so any workable solution has to be based on a template transcluding data from the creature /raws. If the creature pages won't register in the categories, I'd rather have the links to the "stub articles" than links to non-functional categories. --Loci 14:24, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Using {{Category|foo}} will include it in the category and {{Catlink|foo}} will make an actual link appear on the page - if you want both to happen, then you need to use both of those (see {{attrib proc}} which I just recently modified). --Quietust 14:50, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

If you click on Category:DF2012:Flying, you will find that the majority of creatures with flying are *not* currently included. This is exactly the same problem I ran into with my revision 179580, which looks remarkably similar to your revsion 179609. In short, the creature pages show the category links, but aren't actually added to the category until the creature page is edited directly (the three flying creatures currently listed in the category have all been edited since your change). That means the categories won't be complete until *every* creature page with an ability has been edited (or the category lists are administratively regenerated), which is why I chose to revert the categories and just link to an ability page. --Loci 23:15, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Regenerating cached categories

I will reset the caches this weekend. --Briess 09:48, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! --Loci 16:02, 6 January 2013 (UTC)