"My dear reader. Mods really are amazing creatures! "
"You can learn all that there is to know about their features in a month, and yet after a hundred years, they can still surprise you." Another small news, lots of small fun projects that add to the wiki. It's the second regular post this and we're just all patiently waiting for 4.5, excited to find write down all the little details. There's newt stuff, there's overhauled stuff and there's more detailed stuff, so enough for everybody's taste. Whether you prefer to massively overhaul page, push minor modifications onto a page or just add some more details to sections. We're especially looking forward to the new spellbooks which will be very nicely paired with the new display system. And now... onwards!
-Spellbook: There is a new spellbook system that has been developed thanks to the help of the Wikia (company that hosts all the wikis) staff. 2 separate system have been developed to fulfill everybody's needs. The primary system is a screenshot that has been taken straight from the game and then fitter with some custom Javascript, long story short: users can now hover on each power to see a very nice summary of both the visual effect and gameplay effect of the power. Depending on your internet speed, it might take several seconds for the little box to appear, but normally you should end with something like that:
In addition, we've added a secondary system below which allow user to go to a tab and see a visual picture of the power and allow the user to click on the links. Combining this system means that the user can see the spellbook as seen in the game but can also see what the power looks in the game and access related pages. So far however, due to the new spellbook announcement only the
Mordor and
Lorien spellbook have been filled in as tests.
-This is a project that Gandy (Gandalf7000) has been working on during the month, he takes the icons used in game and adds them next to their respective ability for each hero, creating a nice atmosphere that brings the wiki closer to the mod. Can be seen on all of the Lorien hero pages:
Galadriel,
Celeborn,
Thranduil,
Treebeard,
Haldir and many more.
-Hero Categories: With the help of Garlodur we have finally sorted and refined the categories of heroes. They are now better defined but suggestions are always welcome.
-Quote: More hero quotes! It's an ongoing project, even if it's on a break at the moment but more hero quotes have been added and more hero quotes are to come. If you have a preference for a certain hero's quote make sure to give me a shout and I'll gladly add it when I have time, I don't have much of a preference on the heroes so I just add whatever catches my eye first.
-Youtube Page: The Youtuber pages have received a minor overhaul with better link display in their infoboxes in addition to keep a family friendly status the pages containing mature content (mostly swearing though) have received a small mature content warning which will appear when users attempt to access the page.
It's a short news, but there just isn't much to talk about. The focus of the contributions during the period separating us from the 4.5 release is going to be
Quality. We will be going improving pages and adding content in order to give the user more content to view. We're just going to keep editing stuff to create a professional wiki that might one day rival those of the AAA games. To finish, stats:
-Edits:16,741
-Pages: 485
-Files: 2,965
-Peak WAM Rank: 471