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:Any part of my edits that you'd like to detract other than the need to update every game pages to take advantage of my changes? I'm thinking of just add specific Wii game pages that support GameCube controller to subcategory [[:Category:Wii titles that use GameCube Controller]]. Is that cool with you? [[User:Lucario|Lucario]] ([[User talk:Lucario|talk]]) 00:31, 21 September 2015 (CEST) | :Any part of my edits that you'd like to detract other than the need to update every game pages to take advantage of my changes? I'm thinking of just add specific Wii game pages that support GameCube controller to subcategory [[:Category:Wii titles that use GameCube Controller]]. Is that cool with you? [[User:Lucario|Lucario]] ([[User talk:Lucario|talk]]) 00:31, 21 September 2015 (CEST) | ||
:: OK, to be specific regarding my concerns: | ::: OK, to be specific regarding my concerns: | ||
* The edits would require editing every titles page, with thousands of pages that would take a while, even if we put the regex search-n-replace to use. | :::* The edits would require editing every titles page, with thousands of pages that would take a while, even if we put the regex search-n-replace to use. | ||
* Preexisting pages that included a "platforms=" were completely broken, spitting out a broken and escaped set of categories. This may have been addressed by replacing "platforms=" with "platforms="+"system=", but I was unhappy to have all the pages broken till that was completed, which per above would take a while. | :::* Preexisting pages that included a "platforms=" were completely broken, spitting out a broken and escaped set of categories. This may have been addressed by replacing "platforms=" with "platforms="+"system=", but I was unhappy to have all the pages broken till that was completed, which per above would take a while. | ||
* It should be fairly easy to use the Regex template to do things like purge out the comma and "Virtual Console" from the platforms list if that was the only reason to add a separate "systems=" parameter. | :::* It should be fairly easy to use the Regex template to do things like purge out the comma and "Virtual Console" from the platforms list if that was the only reason to add a separate "systems=" parameter. | ||
* This sort of "pages that are part of multiple categories" category is provided more cleanly and easily via a few different Mediawiki add-ins, which is probably a preferable way to pursue this. | :::* This sort of "pages that are part of multiple categories" category is provided more cleanly and easily via a few different Mediawiki add-ins, which is probably a preferable way to pursue this. | ||
I'm not against setting up these sorts of categories, I just don't want to cause chaos while they are set up. Some other responses/comments: | ::: I'm not against setting up these sorts of categories, I just don't want to cause chaos while they are set up. Some other responses/comments: | ||
* If we are going to have these sorts of categories we should have a "GameCube titles that use GameCube Controllers" category. Yes, it seems like all games should support the consoles own controller, but I'd prefer there to be consistency in how things were handled. | :::* If we are going to have these sorts of categories we should have a "GameCube titles that use GameCube Controllers" category. Yes, it seems like all games should support the consoles own controller, but I'd prefer there to be consistency in how things were handled. | ||
* For similar reasons, I'd prefer to not just arbitrarily add only a "Wii titles that use GameCube Controller" category. | :::* For similar reasons, I'd prefer to not just arbitrarily add only a "Wii titles that use GameCube Controller" category. | ||
* I wouldn't mind getting Wii/GameCube listed as platforms and auto-generating their related categories, so we could purge out the handcoded GC/Wii category assignments. Again, this requires a lot of page edits so it should be approached carefully. | :::* I wouldn't mind getting Wii/GameCube listed as platforms and auto-generating their related categories, so we could purge out the handcoded GC/Wii category assignments. Again, this requires a lot of page edits so it should be approached carefully. | ||
* For the dual-category categories, let's look into getting an "intersection" extension in place, which I think will make this as easy as editing some template parameters. | :::* For the dual-category categories, let's look into getting an "intersection" extension in place, which I think will make this as easy as editing some template parameters. | ||
I'm going in for some surgery on after breaking my foot Mon morning, so I may not be able to repond/follow-up on this for a while. But hopefully we can work this out over the next few weeks. | ::: I'm going in for some surgery on after breaking my foot Mon morning, so I may not be able to repond/follow-up on this for a while. But hopefully we can work this out over the next few weeks. [[User:Kolano|Kolano]] ([[User talk:Kolano|talk]]) 07:35, 21 September 2015 (CEST) | ||