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The workshop, a place to discuss how to improve the FC wiki.

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[edit] Icons

I mentioned this on the forum a while back, but if anyone has graphics skills and could improve some icons that would be good. See badges where there are several 16px by 16px images enlarged to 50px by 50px and they look bad. Icons want to be viewable at both 50px and 16px (or have two variants at different sizes). Additonally some new icons representing "Fastest", "Slowest", "Fewest" would be good. Anyone with such skill? -- Meconopsis 08:40, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

• Additionally, I was wondering if we wanted to have two icons to distinguish between unpowered (green) rodless designs and powered rodless designs. ...? -- Meconopsis 08:45, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
• Icons needed:
  Water (50px)
  Rodless (50px)
  Sweep (50px)
  Handsoff (50px)
  Badgeless (50px)
  Unconnected (50px)
  Is Pilot too small?
  Fastest (50px & 16px) - Not lightning. Try Arrow with speed air waves or Hare or speedometer at max???
  Slowest (50px & 16px) - Snail or tortoise or speedometer at 0
  Fewest (50px & 16px) - No idea
  Powered rodless (50px & 16px) - as rodless but in yellow and/or pink?
  -- Meconopsis 09:46, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
• Perhaps get the original pilot icon, used in comps which is a P in blue box. Fewest pieces could be just a picture of tools, or a tool box that's full or something. I've made a mock for the powered rodless, in 50px and 16px, I'm not too good at photoshop. -- Skips 13:44, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
  • I like the PowRodless idea. -- Meconopsis 19:10, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
• I've started using for fastest, slowest and fewest. -- Meconopsis 10:21, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Level/design image names

I think that we should have a universal way of naming level and design images from the FCR so it will be easier for users to find an image. Basically, it would work like this:

• LevelID 299 [[Image:level-299.png]]
• DesignID 6599 [[Image:design-6599.png]]

I have already implemented this method with the featured level of the week levels and will try to move all other images to the same style. Comments and ideas are welcome.--tes753 00:13, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

I've added ".png" to both example image links. Here is a real one as a link: Image:Level-430764.png and as a (50px) picture: -- Meconopsis 22:34, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Icon Order

We've already settled on [ URL pieces/ticks author ] !_commentary_span icon_list for a general design. What order should the icon_list be in? I'm inclined towards {So/Cl/Ch/Bo etc} {So/Cl/Gn/Bn/Wa/Ro} Sw Li Pi Un Ho Fast Slow Few for no very good reason. -- Meconopsis 10:55, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

I would suggest to just do it in conventional order, like the one used in Hap scoring results, so that would be:

• {So,Gr,Br,Wa,Ro,Un},{Ch,Bo},{Cl,Sw},{Pi,Li,Ho},{Fast,Slow,Few}

This is the way I normally structure it, but I'm sure others will have conflicting opinions. -- Skips 17:39, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

That doesn't quite make sense in several ways. How about {So,Gn,Bn,Wa,Ro},{Ch,Bo,Cl},{Sw,Un,Pi,Li,Ho},{Fast,Slow,Few}? I'm not aware of Hap scoring results, but putting unconnected in with Water and rodless etc has to be wrong - you can have So Un and also Gn Un and Bn Un and Wa Un and even Ro Un. They are independent. -- Meconopsis 22:30, 8 March 2010 (UTC)