Forum:Story Box

Would it be a good idea to create a Storybox template that would let us specify metadata to one side of the story text? Things like characters involved, author, title, where the story fits into a series (if any), that sort of thing? Kjallstrom 18:31, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

I think I want to do a similar auto-categorization thing. You already have a category called Category:Nukhan Stories, but there's an open design question: do we want that to be stories by Nukhan (i.e. your main/you the player), stories featuring Nukhan the character, or both? I think we should have two categories, one for authorship and one for stories containing a character; a given story can be by multiple people but not feature their mains, for example. Is that overdoing it again? Kjallstrom 17:01, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

I think I found a good model for multipart stories/series - the "military campaign" boxes on Wikipedia. They let you specify a series title, and the "conflict box" on each individual page can specify which campaign it's a part of. I'm going to try and get that imported and styled as appropriate. Note that a series in this case doesn't have any particular author information - it's just an automatic grouping of stories in some order, which could be across authors. Going to do some testing. Kjallstrom 17:16, 15 August 2008 (UTC)


 * My original intent was to have stories by players. Categories holding stories with crossing paths and other PCs might create a large cluster of categories, which while great organization, might be a hassle to view. Ktwiki 20:46, 15 August 2008 (UTC)


 * All right, let's leave it just at authorship for now; if anybody really wants crazy story co-reference links, we can rethink it. Kjallstrom 21:53, 15 August 2008 (UTC)