Set up transclusions for it. It should be split into plants and animals (and anything else necessary) and the alphabetical.
- What's your vision for the In the garden page? Is there a reason to have it be something like the timeline, and not just a category used to tag the individual articles of any plant or animal mentioned in the garden? Aidanem (talk) 21:05, June 17, 2014 (UTC)
- I was thinking of it as basically one article covering everything covered by that section. But that's probably not actually necessary. This is why it's better to have more than one person work on things. :) Silvercat17 (talk) 17:40, September 22, 2014 (UTC)
Ideas of how to handle it? Turn it into a category for anything mentioned? But a lot of them don't have articles. Keep as is, and put any expanded info on individual pages (for example, move the info under canteloupes to a separate page)? Something else? - Silvercat
- We could arrange it by month instead of topic, so you get a feel for the seasonal changes and rhythms (what's being planted, when, what animals are making appearances, etc). It would mean almost completely overhauling the page, but I'm game. AngelaG1986 (talk) 16:51, February 3, 2017 (UTC)
- Ooo, I like that. I can get started on that - it sounds fun. Silvercat17 (talk) 23:03, February 4, 2017 (UTC)
- Awesome! Yesterday I put a little sample chart up on In the Garden, as an example of how it could look. Let me know what you think and what direction you're headed in. AngelaG1986 (talk) 23:27, February 4, 2017 (UTC)
- Right now I'm just pulling out September and October from each year. I was thinking of each month including every year. I'm not sure how well the chart will work, just because of the number of topics, but I'll try it out. :) Silvercat17 (talk) 07:03, February 5, 2017 (UTC)
- Great! Well, you'll see for yourself how well it works (or doesn't). Let us know how it shakes out! AngelaG1986 (talk) 07:11, February 5, 2017 (UTC)
I don't think the idea of it being monthly will work. There's too many times when he's discussing general information. I think we should keep it how it is, just simplify so it's more of an index. We could also add in pictures that way to break it up. Anything mentioned several times could have a separate article, or not since it would link directly to the episode. Silvercat17 (talk) 00:40, February 6, 2017 (UTC)
Journal format?[]
What if we rewrote it so that it was in more of a journal format? This might make it look like a timeline of the garden or the Events of uncertain date but it would probably be easier to maintain over the long haul. It would also let us talk about the times when Rev. Mord is away from the garden, or when the only thing to report on is the weather. I put together a sample of how this might look with the first few episodes over in my sandbox. --Fiddlingfrog (talk) 06:32, February 9, 2017 (UTC)
I like it!AngelaG1986 (talk) 06:45, February 9, 2017 (UTC)
I like the idea, but it'll make it hard for readers to cross-reference things that show up in multiple eps, unless we have a page for every plant/etc, which seems unnecessary to me. But I'm open to whatever the majority decides. :) Silvercat17 (talk) 11:11, February 9, 2017 (UTC)
- I think we'll have to handle the cross-referencing ourselves in the actual text of the page. By heading each section with year and month we can easily link backwards and forwards on the same page. I also added a couple of templates last night that can help us standardize how we refernce particular episodes across the wiki. For example {{EpDate|<2013-09-13>}} becomes Episode 1 and {{DateEp|<1>}} becomes Episode for 2013-09-13 Ep. 1. We can adjust how those look, I just thought it'd be good to both standardize the look and cut down on having to cross-reference date and episode numbers.
- Come to think of it, I can adjust the episode infobox so that the only parameter we'll need to specify is the date. We'll need to edit the template once a year or so to keep up with future episodes (or any skipped episodes) but it would make it easier to keep up with new episodes. --Fiddlingfrog (talk) 14:14, February 9, 2017 (UTC)
- Excellent templates! Perhaps have the journal, and an index at the bottom for easy referencing? I'm just sort of thinking if somebody, say Ursula, wants to see what they've said about, say, zucchini, it'd be useful instead of having to search. Silvercat17 (talk) 22:50, February 9, 2017 (UTC)