[OOC][Info]Nothing Better Than This Wiki, part II

[robkelk]

With displacees continuing to appear after September 2016, I'm beginning to regret hardcoding "as of September 2016" into the age field of the displacee infobox.

Anybody mind if I add "Birth Date on the character's Metacontinuity ID", and if that's present suppress display of "Birthday" and "Age"? There'll be some short-term pain as the current infoboxes are updated, but long-term gain in that we won't have to keep updating the infoboxes as characters get older.

Sounds like a good idea to me.  This is part of why we aren't really pushing to "publish" just yet - we still have a lot of kinks like these to work out.

This functionality is now in the infobox.

As of this posting, the fields that the displacee list will take, and the order they'll be displayed in, are:

Code:

{{Infobox Displacee
| title =
| image =
| caption =
| Residence =
| Origin =
| Metacontinuity Arrival Date =
| Metacontinuity Birth Date =
| Birthday =
| Age =
| Height =
| Blood Type =
| Three Sizes =
}}

If there is no image, "Caption" will not display.
If there is a Metacontinuity Birth Date, "Birthday" and "Age" will not display... but they can still be pulled out of the infoboxes and shown on the data-mining pages.

Note to either self or Labster, whoever has time to do it first: We need to import "Template:Date table sorting" and its prerequisites from Wikipedia to our wiki.

And this is why we need "Template:Date table sorting" from Wikipedia - so that we can display the arrival date and birth date in a consistent easy-to-read format and be able to sort on either field on the data-mining pages. (And, possibly, do some actual automated number-crunching instead of just displaying text, if anybody wants to do that down the line.)

EDIT: Now to actually populate the "Metacontinuity Birth Date" entries... which depend on the "Metacontinuity Arrival Date" entries, so pages created for Arc 2 characters can't get these yet.