Alfhedil

From Stardust, to Stardust: Tales of Andromeda, a Sci-Fi Fantasy RP

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Can't disagree to that.

@KaiserAuto

Sometimes you're the Slowbro, sometimes you get Slowpoked.

From Stardust, to Stardust: Tales of Andromeda, a Sci-Fi Fantasy RP

I'm Shimmerene on the Wikia, let me know if there's a certain way you would prefer to see the navigation laid out, as well as anything else that could be done with the CSS.

From Stardust, to Stardust: Tales of Andromeda, a Sci-Fi Fantasy RP

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NOT-SO-MAJOR!

@KaiserAuto

What Kaiser is doing.

From Stardust, to Stardust: Tales of Andromeda, a Sci-Fi Fantasy RP

I feel not-so-major now.

@KaiserAuto

It was just an example, I went for the first three I thought of D:

From Stardust, to Stardust: Tales of Andromeda, a Sci-Fi Fantasy RP

Alright, tried to edit the CSS, and found that I can't because I'm not admin, and it's a protected page. Here's a bit of a primer instead, for @Duck55223 in case he wishes to edit it up to make it look purdy.

First is how the sections are ordered:

*Major Factions
**#category:The Dominion#
**#category:The Eight World's Empire#
**#category:The Morte Imperium#
*Universe Information
**#category:Characters#
**#category:Small Arms#
**#category:Species#
**#category:Starships#

This replaces the second two tabs up top with the tabs "Major Factions" and "Universe Information", and below those two will be the drop-down menus ascribed below each heading. Using the **#category:# tag will allow a second drop-down menu to form, that will automatically draw upon pages inside that category, or you can click the heading itself to go directly to that category page. Using a single asterisk before a heading will denote it as a First Tab, and two asterisks before a heading will denote it as a Second Tab, going under the First Tab directly before it. Also, note that while you can use categories for the Second Tabs, you cannot create an automatically populating list as a First Tab. The reason for this is the way in which "Magic Words" work in the coding of the Wikia CSS, generally just down to coding that needs to be as simple as possible.

*Major Factions
**The Dominion
**The Eight World's Empire
**The Morte Imperium
*Universe Information
**#category:Characters#
**#category:Small Arms#
**#category:Species#
**#category:Starships#

In this second example, the navigation panel will create instead direct-links to the pages noted. This can be used as a way to link important pages that don't belong in specific categories, or factions that are central to the story. Be cautious with this, however, for using this method quickly breaks the navigation panel due to length of page names. This also holds true for the first example, which could lead to having to select a few main factions, and then a final category that lists other factions.

If anyone has any questions on it, feel free to ask, dealing with Wikia coding is actually something I quite like when it works.

From Stardust, to Stardust: Tales of Andromeda, a Sci-Fi Fantasy RP

To make a sub-category, all you need to do is first create the sub-category and populate it with pages. Once it is an actual category, go down to the bottom and drop it into the category you want it to belong to, just like a normal page. If everything goes right, you will now have a sub-category.

From Stardust, to Stardust: Tales of Andromeda, a Sci-Fi Fantasy RP

Yes, and having it accessible from the main page is most ideal. As soon as there is a page for general energy sources, I will also create a link for that one.

From Stardust, to Stardust: Tales of Andromeda, a Sci-Fi Fantasy RP

FTL tech is arguably the most important tech a civ could have, seeing as how it enables a planetary civilization to become interstellar. Of course, as more is added to the wiki, I'll adjust the section as needed.

From Stardust, to Stardust: Tales of Andromeda, a Sci-Fi Fantasy RP

This can easily be done, I would just need access to the CSS, a good bit of time to check the coding, and an actual computer to do so with. As useful as my phone is, it is no good at posting anything larger than th

From Stardust, to Stardust: Tales of Andromeda, a Sci-Fi Fantasy RP

<Snipped quote by Alfhedil>Well, the placement of the factions and techs are a mess, for example.
Besides, what do you mean?
There's no category made for technologies, lore parts and factions yet.
So how should it put anything automatically to either category?

@Willy Vereb

I explained the process quite simply. You make a page, for example "Fusion" or something like that. You give it the category "Technology". When another page is created and given the same category, it is placed into that category page automatically. It's really not that hard.

Also, until you actually explain HOW it's a mess, I'm just going to ignore your comment and say that if you don't like how it looks then you can do it yourself. I spent a good hour of my time getting that code to work and making everything nice and neat.