User:Pereidh

Contacting me
I regularly check the forums at firefall.com, so your best bet is to start a conversation with me there. That will also send a notification to my email.

To Do

 * CSS classes for tables, to ensure consistent appearance, in keeping with the site's color scheme.
 * Update MediaWiki:Sidebar
 * Templates for each major category, to allow for 'Single Source of Truth', and data/formatting reuse in eg. battleframe pages (as is currently done with perks).
 * Overview tables for each major category (multiple tables, representing data in different ways).
 * Page footer toolbars, common and per category, using icons/tooltips to keep size down and data density up.
 * XMind mindmap to show a suggested hierarchy for the site's pages.
 * Imagemapped maps for each zone, linking to POIs/ARES mission sites/etc.

During Beta

 * Created original API Functions page
 * Uploaded icons for battleframes (colored versions from garage UI) and perks (converted from .dds files included with game client).
 * Converted Perk page over to a table format using the uploaded icons, using tooltips for the decriptions.
 * Converted Perk page table over to use a set of templates for cells, allowing relevant parts of the table to be displayed in Category:Battleframes pages.
 * Created Template:Perk
 * Copied basic perk data from the Perk table into all the individual pages for eack perk, using the new tamplate.
 * Added Perk and individual pages to Category:Perks
 * Added the perk icons to Category:Perk_Images, and that category to Category:Images
 * Added the colored battleframe icons to Category:Battleframe_Icons
 * Modified Template:Perk to duplicate the values submitted to the template into properties that may be referenced from other pages, eg.
 * Data in the Perk table is now built using just the name of the perk, and having Template:Perk_table_cell_perk pull the rest in from the individual perk page's properties. This ensures 'single source of truth' where all perk data throughout the wiki can be changed by modifying a single individual page per perk, or the perk template for data that covers several, such as perk point costs for each stage/level.

1.0

 * Uploaded icons for new perks/perks that changed name/perks that changed icon.
 * Updated Perks table to match available perks in 1.0, reclassification and renaming.
 * Updated Template:Perk_table_cell_perk and Template:Perk to support additional perk types.
 * Updated all the individual perk pages.
 * Added the Agile perk to the overview table, and uploaded an icon for it.

1.1

 * Created page Ability, which will eventually replace Skill, once we've got all the table formatting, CSS and templates sorted. Also created the Category:Abilities
 * Added Category:DeprecatedContent and Template:DeprecatedContent. Modded Template:Perk to make use of the  in deciding whether to add the perk page to the perk category, or disable this by making it just a link to the perk category.
 * Used the above on the deprecated perks (and a couple of pages that showed up in a search for deprecated)
 * Added table classes to Mediawiki:Common.css that match the color scheme used on firefall.com forums, along with a few other tweaks.
 * Created Template:Ability. Will need to add code to handle current data, as it's currently just got the old SkillBox code in it.

Colors
Classes (as used in the battleframe icon in the garage)


 * Dreadnaught = rgb(60,178,255) #3CB2FF
 * Assault = rgb(255,100,28) #FF641C
 * Biotech = rgb(189,226,56) #BDE238
 * Engineer = rgb(251,201,6) #FBC906
 * Recon = rgb(148,113,206) #9471CE

Perks


 * Basic = rgb(149,242,133) #95F285
 * Intermediate = rgb(244,249,147) #F4F993
 * Advanced = rgb(137,137,249) #8989F9
 * Master = rgb(255,176,66) #FFB042

Item Quality


 * Purple = #ca4ff8
 * Blue  = #4295f8
 * Green = #6cca5b
 * White = #f8f8f8

Sample colors from firefall.com forums


 * Links 05b3d2
 * Text dcdcdc
 * Header Text f3ae00
 * Header Background 2f230e
 * Forum section background 172121
 * Search box background 2e3333
 * Forum post background = gradient from 2e3333 to 161c1c
 * Poll title text 1f7c8f
 * Next page button background 015469
 * Latest post background on forum listing 111717
 * Text entry box on thread 242f30

Guidelines for Image Submissions
Most of the game UI images can be found as .dds files in your game folder.

The program XnView may be used to browse the Firefall folders (including the ones in your Users folder, where the cache is stored) for .dds files, and it includes a search function to save having to look for images one folder at a time. XnView however can't convert the .dds files over to .png format while preserving transparency. The Compressonator can be used to batch convert .dds files over to .png though.

Try to name uploaded files in a descriptive manner, paying attention to classification. This makes it easier to understand what an image is of when browsing the list of uploaded files, and avoids potential naming conflicts in future, which can cause problems when images are being automatically inserted into templates. eg, use names like:


 * icon_battleframe_electron.png
 * icon_ability_firecat_inferno_dash.png
 * icon_weapon_primary_tigerclaw_fusion_cannon.png
 * icon_weapon_secondary_assault_rifle.png
 * image_creature_brontodon.png
 * image_creature_chosen_juggernaut.png
 * image_vehicle_lgv_chopper.png
 * image_location_thump_dump.png
 * ui_battleframe_garage_frame.png
 * ui_battleframe_garage_perks.png

Test Code 1
Display data from another page:

Overview
Note: hover the mouse over the perk icons to display perk descriptions.

example category hierarchy

 * Equipment
 * Battleframes
 * Assault
 * Accord Assault
 * Firecat
 * Tigerclaw
 * Biotech
 * Accord Biotech
 * Dragonfly
 * Recluse
 * Dreadnaught
 * Accord Dreadnaught
 * Arsenal
 * Mammoth
 * Rhino
 * Engineer
 * Accord Engineer
 * Bastion
 * Electron
 * Recon
 * Accord Recon
 * Nighthawk
 * Raptor
 * Weapons
 * Primary Weapons
 * Secondary Weapons
 * Abilities (NOT Skills)
 * Standard Abilities
 * HKMs
 * Modules
 * Ability Modules
 * Weapon Modules
 * Battleframe Cores
 * Creatures
 * Animals
 * Humanoids
 * Robots
 * Factions
 * The Accord
 * The Chosen
 * Bandits
 * Corporations
 * Astrek
 * Kisuton
 * Omnidyne
 * Shepherds
 * Vehicles
 * Player Vehicles
 * LGVs
 * MGVs
 * Gliders
 * Dropships
 * Chosen Vehicles
 * Darkslip
 * Drop Pod

Comments
Pretty neat solution :3 Especially for the frame pages >< - Minosha (talk) 09:57, 23 February 2014 (EST)

Mass deletion when Special:Nuke won't show pages
In case anyone ever needs to delete at ton of pages in bulk, and they won't show up under Mass Delete (Requires Firefox and Notepad++):

Generate a list of links to the delete action for each page, eg.	http://firefall.gamepedia.com/index.php?title=Unverified:Material_2_Requirement_Stage_I&action=delete http://firefall.gamepedia.com/index.php?title=Unverified:Material_2_Requirement_Stage_II&action=delete http://firefall.gamepedia.com/index.php?title=Unverified:Material_2_Requirement_Stage_III&action=delete http://firefall.gamepedia.com/index.php?title=Unverified:Material_2_Requirement_Stage_IV&action=delete http://firefall.gamepedia.com/index.php?title=Unverified:Material_3_Amount_Stage_I&action=delete This can be done by copy/pasting the page names from All Pages into Notepad++, and then:


 * replacing the tabs that appear between individual page names with find/replace (tab as find (will already be entered if one was selected when find/replace was activated), "\n" as replace, search mode extended)
 * converting the spaces to underscores with find/replace (" ", "_", Normal search mode)
 * adding url text to the beggining of each link with find/replace ("^(.*)$" as find, "http://firefall.gamepedia.com/index.php?title=$1" as replace, search mode regular expression)
 * adding url text to the end of each link with find/replace ("^(.*)$" as find, "$1&action=delete" as replace, search mode regular expression)

put this text somewhere on the wiki to make the links active, like in your user page (no need to save, it'll work from preview)


 * Select these links by dragging a box around them with the mouse cursor (has to start above the text of the first link to work).
 * Right click on them and select 'Open Links in New Tabs' (might have to do this in stages to keep firefox from crashing if you have a huge number of pages to delete)

Now you can quickly set the delete reason for each page:


 * Put the reason in for the first tab, and copy it.
 * Ctrl+Tab, Ctrl+A, Ctrl+V, repeat (this will swap to the next tab, which will have the reason box already avtive, select all the text in it, and replace it with the reason copied from the first tab)
 * When you have done this for all the tabs you can then hit the delete button on the first, Ctrl+Tab, repeat to actually delete all the pages.
 * Middle click tabs to close them all quickly