Is this an attempted import from the Wikibooks Final Fantasy VI page? [1] I've worked on that one and it's largely complete, let me know if there's anything I can do to help.--BigCow 10:37, 31 May 2006 (PDT)
Items List Setup
I had seen that you had worked on the FF6 WikiBook. There is a lot of stuff I'm working on to improve upon that. I just haven't updated the wiki. It would be so much easier if I could grep on this windows machine. I want to categorize each weapon, armor et al by what it is(weapon, armor, helmet, item, accessory) and by who can equip it, by adding a category tag, but the only way I can do that is to make a seperate page or template for each item. I really don't want to have to do that. I'm adding a lot more item info as well(where to get it from, what you get for betting it at the colliseum, etc). I'm also going to change the walkthrough chapter setup.
Do you know if there is a better way to categorize these items? Thanks a bunch.--Filthy swine 22:49, 4 June 2006 (PDT)
Tables?
I think what we'd want to do for the items stuff eventually is to set up a table, I just checked out the formatting rules on Wikipedia:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Table
Example:
| Column heading 1 | Column heading 2 | Column heading 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Row heading 1 | Cell 2 | Cell 3 |
| Row heading A | Cell B | Cell C |
Basically, we'd set up all the fields and stuff we needed and throw the text in as appropriate. The descriptions I have for all the items in the wikibook could be a starting place for a "description" field or something similar, and you might have something for immunities and stuff like that in rare cases... you could have a table for each type of equipment/item to make things easier as well.
For the Super Mario RPG wiki guide, I may start one eventually. What I've done before is just play through the game exhaustively and write up the guide as I go along. It would be fun to have a few side projects describing how to get all the incidental frog coins, flower tabs/jars/boxes in the game, and other stuff like a listing of minigames and their rewards.--BigCow 19:28, 5 June 2006 (PDT)
Seperate Pages For Items
I want to avoid having a table for all items(it would become quite expansive), but I also want to avoid having redundancies with having specialized lists like a morph or colliseum list. I like the idea of having seperate pages for the advantages that categorization could have for each individual item.--Filthy swine 19:56, 5 June 2006 (PDT)