Talk: Main Page

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Info: If you want to use the 6WW/Dumpshock skin (monobook)

Go to http://shadowrun.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special:Preferences and select the monobook skin from the "Site Layouts" section in the "My info" tab. This skin is not as supported as the wikia default, but personally I like it more. Some dumpshock users may find that useful. --Piotrus 16:40, November 9, 2011 (UTC)

French interwiki-links

How to add links to http://shadowrun.fr/wiki in this wiki ? Archaos-JdR (talk) 21:25, January 29, 2013 (UTC)

with [[fr:Pagename in french wiki]].

--Dorle (talk) 16:24, January 30, 2013 (UTC)

Open: Embedding GoogleMaps

I'd like to try and embed some GoogleMaps that players have created based off of the SR world. I've read up that it requires access to mediawiki pages, but when I tried to create one of these pages I couldn't edit the page. So if someone could make a mediawiki page with:

<iframe width="425" height="350" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=201375040006088778489.0004dc233c3f9a36e7362&msa=0&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=42.029492,-87.81578&spn=0.927745,0.830841&output=embed"></iframe>
View <a href="https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=201375040006088778489.0004dc233c3f9a36e7362&msa=0&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=42.029492,-87.81578&spn=0.927745,0.830841&source=embed" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">Shadowrun - Chicago 2073</a> in a larger map

so we can test it out, that'd be good, or if there is some way I can get access to create mediawiki pages, that'd be cool too.

(Dethstrobe (talk) 20:28, May 10, 2013 (UTC))

You may need to ask as the generic wikia help forums about that. At least I have no clue how to help you out here :( --Piotrus (talk) 17:15, July 31, 2013 (UTC)

Open: Background image and readability

I think the big "Shadowrun" logo on the background image makes the articles harder to read. Maybe we could use a different wallpaper or make the article background more opaque? --ShxLoki (talk) 00:25, December 6, 2012 (UTC)

I don't know if it's just me but the readability with the transparency is bad imo. Particularly when you have a role-playing and text heavy focus to articles. The rest is fine, just that transparency... I think it detracts from the usability and does not benefit appearance-wise. Citadel535 (talk) 23:45, July 29, 2013 (UTC)

No, as you can see from my comment above. I see exactly the same problem.

--ShxLoki (talk) 08:53, July 30, 2013 (UTC)

I have no problem if someone wants to experiment andchange it. Don't ask me how to do it, however :) --Piotrus (talk) 17:14, July 31, 2013 (UTC)

Open: Category cleanup

I am beginning category cleanup for characters. I want us to have a nice category system so that people writing modules for SR and later SO can easily find info about canon characters, sorted by profession, race, time and place. To do:

remove al 3E / 4E categories, it will be enough to have Category:Characters with 3E stats and Category:Characters with 3E stats. Things like Gangers 3E will be just Gangers, etc. This means creating a lot of categories (for example [[:Category::Gangers]] does not exist yet (will in few minutes/days).
populate: ~~Category:People by time~~ Category:People by time of appearance (so we can find characters by year they were mentioned in sources). This will have have the structure Category:People of 2050s->Category:People of 2051.
populate: Category:People by profession (how to classify a bartender?)
populate: Category:People by location (ditto for location). This will have have the structure Category:People in UCAS->Category:People in Seattle
populate: Category:People by allegiance. This will have the structure: Category:People by nationality, Category:People by megacorp allegiance, Category:People by criminal organization allegiance
delete category:Non-player characters by merging it with category:People
clean up capitalization, i.e. rename Category:Sentient Creatures to Category:Sentient creatures
more, to be added here.

Feel free to ask questions if anyone is not sure what or why am I doing this. --Piotrus (talk) 17:45, July 31, 2013 (UTC)

Okay. - It's all okay (also I'm not sure for the "People by time"-thing). - It's a lot of work ...but someone has to do it.

--Dorle (talk) 17:53, July 31, 2013 (UTC)

I am not totally happy with the name, but couldn't think of anything else that is short. "People by time of appearance"? --175.114.178.243 21:20, July 31, 2013 (UTC)

Yes, that's much better. --Piotrus (talk) 08:06, August 3, 2013 (UTC)

I will have limited net access for the next ~2 weeks. If anybody would like to help out and finish cleaning up the Category:People, it would be great - for each bio, replace C:People with appropriate location, time of appearance and profession category. I think populating the Category:People of 2050s is of major importance as it gives mostly canon characters to SRR module designers. --Piotrus (talk) 16:15, August 3, 2013 (UTC)

Posting Order

Just an aside. I would suggest to always add the newest discussion at the top of the discussion page. At least for long ones.
--ShxLoki (talk) 18:35, July 31, 2013 (UTC)

Personally I prefer the Wikipedia bottomposting... --175.114.178.243 21:20, July 31, 2013 (UTC)

I moved the older discussions from the archive section to an archive page. That removes my problem with adding posts at the bottom, so we can leave it as is.

--ShxLoki (talk) 07:43, August 1, 2013 (UTC)

Open: Content presentation - Shadowrun digital games vs Shadowrun pen & paper

I think we generally agree that we want the old Dumpshock wiki format, which treated articles as encyclopedic entries about the Sixth World with all references to its fictious nature confined to a meta information section. So there already is a certain tension between game content and the main sources from the pen & paper rpg. So some pointers might be warranted.

--ShxLoki (talk) 09:05, August 1, 2013 (UTC)

We should probably clone this discussion to SRR article's talk, but I'd consider SRR canon (official adventures, not fan made ones, of course). --Piotrus (talk) 17:10, August 1, 2013 (UTC)

Me too, I was thinking more about the old games. Nonetheless if you go back to the old stuff most of the time you will introduce new problems. Case in point with Shadowrun Returns Marie-Louise Telestrian is James' younger sister but his daughter in the world of Shadowrun Returns.

--ShxLoki (talk) 20:51, August 1, 2013 (UTC)

Hmmm, that's an annoying error, we will just have to note in the article that official sources contradict themselves. Sigh. (Alternatively: perhaps there is no contradiction, and both his sister and daughters are separate individuals with the same name?) --Piotrus (talk) 08:05, August 3, 2013 (UTC)

I doubt it was intentional, but having two of them might be a way to fix the issue albeit a bit inelegant. Anyway a retcon in the direction of SRR seems undesirable. Marie-Louise is in her teenage years in 2054 according to SRR but in eight years she takes over Telestrian Industries?

--ShxLoki (talk) 17:08, August 3, 2013 (UTC)

Oh, I missed that you wanted to copy the discussion to the SRR talk page. Feel free to move it, if you think it fits better somewhere else. Though I think at least the general discussion of how to represent the video game content also makes sense here.

--ShxLoki (talk) 22:49, August 1, 2013 (UTC)

Category:Shadowrun Returns - people

Hmmm, I am not sure if we need Category:Shadowrun Returns - people. Rather, if he appears in the game, I'd clearly state so (also, in which campaign - official or fanmade? if the latter, it probably is not useful to mention it at all). Of more use would be adding him to Category:People of 2050s as all of them are, in reality, "people of SRR era" and can appear in game.--Piotrus (talk) 00:26, August 1, 2013 (UTC)

Well, I don't know. Some people might really only be familiar with or interested in the computer games. So extra categories to pander to that audience could be a good idea. [argument split off]

--ShxLoki (talk) 09:05, August 1, 2013 (UTC)

I'm with ShxLoki. Having more ways to organize data isn't a bad thing.

(Dethstrobe (talk) 04:26, August 2, 2013 (UTC))

Background

What's up with the background? Its got a big white hole in it. If we need something, I can put something together based off the SR5 art or something. Just need some dimension sizes to work with. (Dethstrobe (talk) 03:44, December 5, 2013 (UTC))

I am not sure what you mean. Do you suggest we should replace the current blue-ish background which has the white Shadowrun text in the background? Frankly, the main problem we have is that any official piece of art would be subject to copyright, so using it would be a copyvio (illegal). Unless we get official permission to use any image, we can only use fanart (through we also need permission for that, too). --Piotrus (talk) 10:08, January 15, 2015 (UTC)

Main Page

How do we add a new Kickstarter thing to the main page? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/webeharebrained/shadowrun-hong-kong

(Dethstrobe (talk) 05:13, January 15, 2015 (UTC))

I am not sure. Depends on what format? --Piotrus (talk) 10:08, January 15, 2015 (UTC)

La Quinzième Section, le Sixième Monde

I am running a game set in the Big Easy and I would like to align it as closely as possible with La Quinzième Section, le Sixième Monde, but I can't find it anywhere.

Anyone have any suggestions?

5th edition updates

What's things look like on updating/adding pages for 5th Edition? Like I noticed that Seattle's infobox says that there's no local grid, but the 5th edition books specifically mention that Seattle has the Emerald City grid. (SR5, p. 234) --BrokenSoftware (talk) 07:13, January 17, 2015 (UTC)

We are missing lore from all accross the board, so yeah, we have major gaps in 5th ed, too. Piotrus (talk) 09:16, January 17, 2015 (UTC)

I have most of the 5th edition pdfs, so once I poke around and figure out how we format things around here (especially in relation to multi-edition page info), I'll be glad to help. BrokenSoftware (talk) 18:49, January 17, 2015 (UTC)

I'd just add it if you see something that needs to be added. Some articles aren't super consistent on formating. And someone else can always fix it up later, if its a big issue. But I think more content is a bit more important than proper formatting currently.(Dethstrobe (talk) 21:38, January 18, 2015 (UTC))

Relaunch/Revamp?

Hey Chummers, what do you all think of some kind of relaunch for the Shadowrun wiki? Work on a new look, fix any outstanding/broken stuff, and then make a push for the runner community to come and update the drek out of it, bring it up to speed. By and large, it looks like the solid content dried up around late third/early fourth edition, with some patches of SRR and 5th here and there. I'd like to see that fixed. Anyone have some time? Alternatively, I have some time, so if someone can point me in the right direction, I can probably leverage some resources...Opti (talk) 15:33, April 16, 2015 (UTC)