Talk:Community news/Sandbox

To do: Change the colors of the info box, currently it's just code stolen from the location box. And see what other people think.--Łô√ë îğá†ħŕášħ 00:58, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Awesome work, Giga. Totally stellar. [[Image:Felix_Omni_Signature.png|link=User:Felix Omni]] 02:28, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Also: The gallery needs to be width/height constricted, but I have no idea how to do it.--Łô√ë [[Image:Gigathrash_sig_G.jpg]]îğá†ħŕášħ 02:33, 26 March 2011 (UTC)


 * MediaWiki provides a &lt;gallery> tag to do that automatically, y'know. We only mentioned widgets because we were considering a slideshow instead of a static thumbnail gallery.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael Diablo_the_chicken.gif 04:15, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I've been wandering back and forth between a 5 or 4 images per row. What do you people think?--Łô√ë [[Image:Gigathrash_sig_G.jpg]]îğá†ħŕášħ  04:55, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

Requirements
I'm considering another section that could include cost/requirements/ where and how to pre register if it's required, especially for things like tourneys. I think we can lump all of these in one.--Łô√ë îğá†ħŕášħ 06:10, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

date/time
Two parameters: "from" and "to", given in a format that the wiki can process (there are many); the infobox date and time displays can be automatically formatted from that, and so can the banners about the event being upcoming or happening, and these banners can display the time to the event, the time until it's over, and the time since it's been over (i.e. once the times are known, no further edits to the page are necessary to keep it updated in that respect). --◄mendel► 06:13, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I'd like to leave them more open so we can add more active additional notes like: Registration is still open for guilds, or The Third flight will begin in 2 hours.  Instead of just a generic endall message.  Maybe if we can include a template in it, that would work.--Łô√ë [[Image:Gigathrash_sig_G.jpg]]îğá†ħŕášħ  06:47, 26 March 2011 (UTC)


 * That could all work together. Put in the infobox the basic start/end times like mendel said, then do notice boxes for the registration or whatever that work directly off of #ifexpr: and #time: (cf. Halloween 2010).  Start/end have to be in the infobox template in order for the "main page" of events to correctly include upcoming/current events via DPL.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael Diablo_the_chicken.gif 14:05, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

Further work
I will now be splitting this page into Community news/Example and Template:Comm Event, since I'm pretty sure everyone has already seen it that wants to see it. When I get everything moved the following needs to be done:
 * 1) Format the start and stop times so that they can be interpreted and used to display the boxes.
 * Get the boxes to display correctly.
 * Add an editable section to the boxes.

--Łô√ë îğá†ħŕášħ 19:53, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) Change the color scheme of the template.
 * 2) Removing various  tags and the like.
 * 3) Profit.
 * 1) Profit.