Template talk:Infobox VG

Idea: Rating text
What if we put the text of the rating beneath the rating in the infobox? Sort of like...



Sure that can be seen on mouse over, but it's annoying and I doubt users even know to do that, and a little clarity is always helpful. I guess the only problem with this idea is the difficulty to implement it. What do you guys think? - MaJoR (talk) 11:22, 29 November 2015 (CET)
 * In addition to the "mouse over" argument, it's impossible for the touchscreen users to bring up mouse over dialogs. I know because I'm an iOS user! That mockup looks good. I don't think there is proper ways to align to exactly like that other than to repeat & n b s p ; however I can't speak for browsers with different font and font size. The image rating stars are already aligned to the left. Lucario (talk) 11:39, 29 November 2015 (CET)


 * Shouldn't be hard to implement. And about having the text here, I'm neither in favour or against so I'll leave that decision to you guys, do what you think is better regarding that. What would be nice is somewhat improve the ratings system, but is something to be discussed elsewhere... - Jhonn (talk) 18:18, 29 November 2015 (CET)


 * Laying out the text is easy enough with some simple CSS. I think I'd prefer if we omitted the quotations, and overlay the text directly over the stars so we didn't consume additional height. Kolano (talk) 23:50, 29 November 2015 (CET)

See this in action The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Twilight_Princess_(GC)/sandbox


 * Losing the quotes and placing it inline with the stars are both fine with me! EDIT: Oh, this was tried and went badly? Well ok, the current system is fine too. - MaJoR (talk) 08:19, 30 November 2015 (CET)

Only for 3Dcondition at the moment. This and Rating are similar except the former one is safer to experiment with as there is only one game that uses it and it's sandboxed. Kolano, I'm sorry, not all of your codes/idea are followed because of several issues we've discovered and mentioned in Talk:Stereoscopic 3D Compatibility Guide
 * Moved codes to Infobox VG/sandbox - the rating numbers are fixed to 5 for compatibility and 2 for stereoscopic 3d condition. I'd needs to figure out how to retrieve variable number from each game... Lucario (talk) 07:47, 30 November 2015 (CET)


 * Hooray! Got rating names working. Ready to merge out of sandbox. Lucario (talk) 09:01, 19 December 2015 (CET)


 * This got merged in today. I'll leave this here for any follow up discussion, but it should be purged out shortly. (Also please let me know if anyone has concerns with the purging that's been occurring. It's important to keep active discussions highlighted, so old discussions have to go. We could alternately "archive" them, but that didn't seem critical to me.) Kolano (talk) 03:19, 21 December 2015 (CET)


 * There's one more thing I'd like to discuss about - Whether to go with or without quotation marks. I take it that it's best to go without quotation marks when going inline on the stars, but that concept never went live. I'd prefer to go with quotation marks personally. The quotation marks can be used as to emphasize a word as possible irony or sarcasm, to avoid validity issues. I hope I'm making myself clear. Lucario (talk) 04:04, 21 December 2015 (CET)


 * Seems like needless punctuation to me. We aren't quoting anyone, and I'd prefer if the ratings were not taken as indicating "irony or sarcasm". If it's emphasis your after we can look into further boldening the text.Kolano (talk) 06:20, 21 December 2015 (CET)


 * Games with compatibility "Perfect" in navbox is what makes it feels funny to me if goes without quotation marks. This is part where we need give it quotation marks so people shouldn't take it seriously. While not quoting anyone, aren't quotation marks used to avoid responsibility on something that may turns out to be misleading? Lucario (talk) 08:17, 21 December 2015 (CET)

Docs
We probably should spend some time updating the documentation here. For instance listing known input types and providing better guidance for other fields like genre. The text on outdated params is itself outdated now and should also probably go. Kolano (talk) 22:28, 30 November 2015 (CET)

Add "Open Issues" in Infobox
Cool? Here's the code:

See this in action The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (GC)/sandbox Lucario (talk) 04:45, 19 December 2015 (CET)

OK, was a bit confused by this at first, as I thought you were somehow pulling in a list of issues, which I though would probably be tricky to work out in a way that would display quickly, but you just mean to add a link that searches the Dolphin Issues DB. Seems OK to me. Kolano (talk) 03:13, 21 December 2015 (CET)

GameID Link
I'd like to have something to link to for the new GameID sub-section. These links on WiiBrew provide fairly in depth info: ...but it's a bit more technical than I really want to link to here (and there are two separate pages). Please chime in if you know of a more concise summary of GameID info, or thoughts on providing such here. Kolano (talk) 03:19, 21 December 2015 (CET)
 * http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Virtual_Console
 * http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Title_database