User talk:Ainz

Hello, I was wondering, do you scan all the cards yourself? If so, do you have them all? I've been looking for complete scans for ages and was wondering if you had them, if you were willing to share. MK 20:14, 21 March 2008 (CDT)

No, we don't have any cards at all. The scans we use are from the Digimon Card Album, WtW is close to having all the cards in existence -- Ainz 07:50, 21 March 2008 (GMT)


 * I see. Would you be so kind as to link me to that Album? MK 14:41, 22 March 2008 (CDT)


 * The actual site no longer functions properly, however here's a site that displays all the cards present on the Album:

Hello, the episode layout update took out the title pictures should i upload new ones?

Just upload a screenshot including the title in it e.g.



--Ainz

Evo box
I made a new template, which standardizes and modularizes the evolution boxes. I'm gonna be working on it for a bit. It should save a lot of space and bandwidth and make editing articles easier. I'll add them to all the partner articles when I am done adding a few more features. Please give any suggestions you have (such as the colors it uses). MK 16:43, 6 April 2008 (CDT)

Looks good so far, I'll wait until its complete so I can suggest possible improvements. --Ainz 22:49, April 6 2008 (GMT)


 * Alright, I seem to have created a far more stable phase of the template. It only has a glitch where Armor Digimon will appear in bold, but that is due to a MediaWiki problem, so we'll have to just deal with that :P. I did them for the Japanese and American Digidestined in Adventure 01 & 02, and a few for Tamers. I haven't watched the other series (or the 2nd Tamers movie) so I will not do those yet. I will get on to watching them soon. I'll try to do the other international digidestined asap.


 * A shining example of the template (including the glitch): V-mon (Adventure). MK 21:49, 6 April 2008 (CDT)
 * ps. The reason the glitch occurs is because the #if statement uses | as a delimiter, so I was forced to use !. I don't see any way aroundit, it's simply a software limitation. MK 12:12, 7 April 2008 (CDT)

Video game sprites
I have another suggestion that I believe will make the wiki all the better. As you know there are quite a few instances of either not having an image of a Digimon, or having a relatively now quality image in its place. However, the recent Digimon games, in particular, the DS games, make use of high-quality sprites based on the card images. I believe these would be a perfect addition to the wiki, as well as provide better coverage for the games.

You most likely do not know, but I pioneered a similar project at Bulbapedia, a Pokemon encyclopedia in the same vein. This page details my sprite suggestions for them, and it worked out fine. The images do indeed fall under fair use laws so there would be no problems in that regard.

My structure for this wiki:

Any game sprite would be prefixed with spr_ in the file name. After that, an abbreviation of the name of the game would be placed. For example, if it was ripped from Digimon Story, it would be spr_DS. If the game is a first in a series a 1 will be added. Finally the Digimon's name, in a modular format, would be placed after (To save space, the mon suffix can be truncated). Any adjectives applied to the name can be put after. A few exaamples:


 * A Betamon from Digimon World: spr_DW1_Beta
 * An Agumon from Digimon Story: Moonlight: spr_DS_Agu
 * A Megalo Growmon from Digimon Battle Server: spr_DBS_Grow_Megalo_Vaccine

I believe this system will really help the wiki. The names are modularized as such for readability and ease of inclusion, especially via templates. The naming system regarding adjectives may look odd but it does indeed help as I've working with this system many times before. Remember the reader would not actually see the image names, just the image.

So, I'd like you to review my proposal and tell me what you think. I'm prepared to start ASAP, as I have many of the sprites already, and am getting others I do not have manually. Extending it to items and maps may even be a future option but is best done after this. The templates will save a /ton/ of space on the wiki as well.

What do you think? :) MK 01:55, 19 April 2008 (CDT)

This is a great idea and I definitely think it should go underway. Seeing how diverse and unique things are currently, this will bring Wikimon back to the top again. As for the naming system, since there are already some exceptions to the main rules, this could be addded as part of those exemptions. --Ainz


 * Awesome, thank you. I'll get started on it soon. I made a small change: all the sprites from Digimon Story are also in Sunburst and Moonlight, aside from a few isolated examples. As such, they'll just use "DS". MK 05:17, 19 April 2008 (CDT)


 * I starting uploading, got a few done but I need to go do some other stuff so I'll finish up later/tomorrow. Current progress: here. MK 11:03, 19 April 2008 (CDT)


 * Looking good so far! --Ainz

Templates
Is there anyway the text in the new attack template and the TCG template can be turned white? It is difficult to see with the default black background otherwise. --Lightlowemon 06:12, 28 May 2008 (CDT)

Yeah, I was thinking the same, so I've changed it to white. --Ainz 12:45, May 28 2008 (GMT)

Templates (again)
I don't know what you changed, but the templates have gone crazy. Also can you explain to me how to use all the templates so I can continue doing my referencing and updating all at once? -Lightlowemon 01:39, 19 June 2008 (CDT)

Which templates? If it's to do with the ones for attack techniques, two of the templates which functioned alongside the older version of the main template, are set to become obselete to make things easier to input. The same thing applies to the statistics template, so instead of using 10 separate templates, I've produced one master template to facilitate input. As for instructions, I've been really busy recently so I haven't had the chance to produce walkthroughs for them, but I'll put up a basic structure for both template guides. --Ainz 16:21, June 19 2008 (GMT)