User:Keller999/projects/gamepageupdate: Difference between revisions

::*This should be handled properly.  The regex looking for "Gameplay Videos" is /^\ *\={1,4}\ *Gameplay\ {1,}Videos\ *\=*$/i , so the key term Videos is required for it to be detected.  Anything in the Gameplay section at the top of the page will get stored in the description, and will be re-used if no Wikipedia data is supplied.  I would consider this a manual cleanup need -- I'm erring on the side of KEEPING data with the script, in case we ever automate it.

:::*I'd like to purge any "== Gameplay ==" sections that exist, but since I think there are only a couple of such that's probably more easily handled manually.[[User:Kolano|Kolano]] 02:59, 22 August 2011 (CEST)

:*Some pages have a section at their end for outside links (i.e. Wikipedia, Dolphin forum posts, etc.) not clear that's handled here. Such requires some cleanup as I think different section titles are used on different pages, though I believe it is consistently the last section on the page.

::*Currently anything after Gameplay Videos but before categories/nav will be lumped in with Gameplay Videos.  I'm not currently doing any processing on Gameplay Videos at all, so the entry would be preserved exactly as-is.  This may need further investigation.  Do you have a sample page?

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:::Generally, I think it would be good to include a link to the Wikipedia entry, and a Dolphin games forum link for each game (where they exist). The later would be complex to automate, but I think the former should be fairly easy. We might also want to include a link to the Issue's list in Google Code /w the game title as a search term. Section should probably be called the more generic "Related Links" to allow for the wide array of things to link in. [[User:Kolano|Kolano]] 02:59, 22 August 2011 (CEST)

:*Regarding "Platforms" in the infobox, generally we're only interested in platforms supported by Dolphin (i.e. GameCube, Wii, Virtual Console systems). I'd actually prefer to omit this line, as it's confusing for titles on multiple platforms which have multiple pages on the Wiki (though it would be good to interlink the platform page pairs where they exist.

::*The script is purging any platform that is not supported by Dolphin, and then wikifying the ones that remain.  If we were to agree on a standard for how pages should be named when they are available on more than one platform, it would be easy to add a <nowiki>'This page is about the [[Gamecube]] version of Super Tonka Trucks.  You may also be interested in [[Super Tonka Trucks (Wii)]].'</nowiki> to the top of the page, a la Wikipedia style.  Might also make sense to make disambiguation pages, and link to those.  Your thoughts?

:::*We more or less had decided to forgo the Platforms parameter previously, due to the confusion it could cause. A consistent naming format does exist, in the cases where a title is supported on both GameCube and Wii, two pages exist with different postfixes " (GC)" and " (Wii)". Unfortunately, since I'm unaware of any means to do text parsing within Wiki logic, I don't think a Wiki logic approach allows for resolution. The script can do the text parsing, but I'm still unsure it's worth bothering over.[[User:Kolano|Kolano]] 02:59, 22 August 2011 (CEST)

:::*Disambiguation pages for these would make sense, at least one exists for [[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess]], but I don't think any of the other instances are covered.[[User:Kolano|Kolano]] 02:59, 22 August 2011 (CEST)

:::*Is this ignoring unsupported platforms? I got the impression for Virtual Console titles the script was just including a full list.[[User:Kolano|Kolano]] 02:59, 22 August 2011 (CEST)

:*Auto-categories: I'm not clear why the auto-generated categories need to be specially labeled (is it we don't trust that they are correct?). I think such may be bad for maintenance in future.

::*This is a just-in-case.  As not all wikipedia articles are formatted the same, there exists the small chance that non-sense categories could be created.  When I'm processing pages, I am checking to make sure that the category links are linking to existing categories, and the indication line lets me know which ones the script did and which ones were existing.  Another option would be to automatically add the category <nowiki>[[Category: Pages with unchecked automatic categories]]</nowiki> and then manually remove them as they're checked with human eyes.  I'm just trying to keep us from having pages in the <nowiki>[[Category: <small>Baseball<br />Sports</small> Games games]]</nowiki> category. =P

:::*Understood. I think I'd prefer the Category flag over the comment, such is more likely to result in cleanup over time. You also need to watch the parsing here, as I had to clean up a category where I think "games" got inappropriately parsed out of the category name. It's only the trailing "games" we're concerned with, so you probably need to add a line end marker to the regexp.[[User:Kolano|Kolano]] 02:59, 22 August 2011 (CEST)

:[[User:Kolano|Kolano]] 00:45, 21 August 2011 (CEST)

::*Thanks for your feedback, keep em coming.  --[[User:Keller999|Keller999]] 01:10, 21 August 2011 (CEST)