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What obvious thing am I missing about why this is a good idea as implemented here? | What obvious thing am I missing about why this is a good idea as implemented here? | ||
-- [[User:Mgrabois|Omnicom]] 20:35, 29 November 2007 (PST) | -- [[User:Mgrabois|Omnicom]] 20:35, 29 November 2007 (PST) | ||
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| + | :Reboot can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe you are misinterpreting the meaning of the three "nexts". For ''Adventure Comics'' #365, the three links would be: | ||
| + | :*"Next (in story) continuity" is ''Adventure Comics'' #366 | ||
| + | :*"Next (in the same) series" is ''Adventure Comics'' #366 | ||
| + | :*"Next (in) publication (order)" is ''Action Comics'' #360 | ||
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| + | :In some cases, the next issue in all three categories would be the same issue, in some cases three different issues. Next in continuity might be the second story in the same issue, a flashback story, etc. Looking at the same basic time period as your example, going back 10 issues or so to Adv 353, the next issue in continuity is Adv 356, as the 2 intervening Adv issues are a double-length Adult Legion story. If a casual browser is flipping through issues in the wiki in sequence, they can choose several different paths to follow. | ||
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| + | :The one drawback I see to the current template is that it appears at the bottom of the page, so someone browsing through the issues has to scroll down to the bottom of the page to click the next link. Not really that bad, but I wonder if there is a way to incorporate the same functionality and skip the page scroll. Also, we might want to reword the text in the template - if Michael could not easily interpret the correct meaning from what was there, then other people will be confused as well. | ||
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| + | :I would be interested in developing a similar interface specifically for cover images, so that one could browse through a whole series of covers. For that, I think just the "in series" links make sense, although perhaps there is an argument for "next in continuity"? | ||
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| + | :-- [[User:Craigopher|Gopher]] 03:57, 30 November 2007 (PST) | ||
Revision as of 05:57, 30 November 2007
Huh?
Why do we want to have a "next/previous" box showing continuity, series, and publication? Unless I'm totally missing what you're trying to say, using Adventure 365 as an example:
- "Next continuity" is "Post-Crisis"
- "Next series" is Action Comics
- "Next publication" is Adventure Comics 366
What obvious thing am I missing about why this is a good idea as implemented here? -- Omnicom 20:35, 29 November 2007 (PST)
- Reboot can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe you are misinterpreting the meaning of the three "nexts". For Adventure Comics #365, the three links would be:
- "Next (in story) continuity" is Adventure Comics #366
- "Next (in the same) series" is Adventure Comics #366
- "Next (in) publication (order)" is Action Comics #360
- In some cases, the next issue in all three categories would be the same issue, in some cases three different issues. Next in continuity might be the second story in the same issue, a flashback story, etc. Looking at the same basic time period as your example, going back 10 issues or so to Adv 353, the next issue in continuity is Adv 356, as the 2 intervening Adv issues are a double-length Adult Legion story. If a casual browser is flipping through issues in the wiki in sequence, they can choose several different paths to follow.
- The one drawback I see to the current template is that it appears at the bottom of the page, so someone browsing through the issues has to scroll down to the bottom of the page to click the next link. Not really that bad, but I wonder if there is a way to incorporate the same functionality and skip the page scroll. Also, we might want to reword the text in the template - if Michael could not easily interpret the correct meaning from what was there, then other people will be confused as well.
- I would be interested in developing a similar interface specifically for cover images, so that one could browse through a whole series of covers. For that, I think just the "in series" links make sense, although perhaps there is an argument for "next in continuity"?
- -- Gopher 03:57, 30 November 2007 (PST)
