View source for Autogenerated Galaxy Guide

This is a kind of "Project Page" for the Autogenerated Galaxy Guide.

== Status ==
I have set up a [[Sector 1|System List for Galaxy Sector One]] and pages for [[Lerelace]] and [[Oresri]] as samples.

Please don't edit these pages manually as they will propably be overwritten one day with a more current version.

I am working on "Prices and Availabilities" for the systems.

I know that "Planet Radius" is still missing. I just forgot it...

I have to find out where to get the Information on sun and planet colors and station types.

I have to find which OXPs are considered canonical enough for inclusion into the guide.

For requests and criticism use the thread [http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=6793|Wiki Galaxy Guide]on the Oolite Bulletin Board.

I found that there was an earlier attempt at generating such a guide, see [[Zaonce]] and [[Tionisla]]. As this was dated somewhere 2007 and 2008, I consider this abandoned.

The systems [[Lave]],  [[Vetitice]], and [[Tianve]] in the first sector have manually written pages, which I will respect, of course. If my design is found agrreable, I will manually integrate those pages.

I'm planning to integrate two more advanced features into a systems' page: An overview map to locate the system in the map, and a local area map showing the worlds in witchspace distance. Both can be done by abusing the "timeline" feature of the MediaWiki if I read the documentation correctly, but this will definitely require an update of the EliteWiki engine (which is at Version 1.9, the current Stable Version is 1.15.1).

== Aims ==
I started this project because I consider it crucial that in such a multi-author environment the store background is as consistent as possible. When I asked how the various fiction and OXP writers communicate and coordinate their efforts and how they know whether a system is already part of another authors story domain, I only learned that there is no real coordination and synchronisation effort.

Another factor was to get a better overview over the worlds of the Oolite multiverse.

== Sources ==

=== Information ===
I started off with an extract of the list in [[Oolite planet list/Galaxy 1]], but I soon learned that this would never give me the information on prices and availabilities of items, so I  analyzed the TXTELITE and Oolite sources and the [[Media:Oolite_galaxies.zip|spreadsheet]] and wrote a perl module to give me all the relevant information.

I took the information on trade routes and regions from the [http://www.crimsonforge.co.uk/cloister/OOmap_G1.pdf Downloadable Vector Map of Galaxy 1] made by ClymAngus.

=== Icons ===
I grabbed the icons for governments and economies for the project from an Oolite font png found in the sources:

[[image:Logo64_Anarchy.png]] [[image:Logo64_Feudal.png]]
[[image:Logo64_MultiGovernment.png]] [[image:Logo64_Dictatorship.png]]
[[image:Logo64_Communism.png]] [[image:Logo64_Confederacy.png]]
[[image:Logo64_Democracy.png]] [[image:Logo64_CorporateState.png]]

[[image:Logo64_PoorAgricultural.png]] [[image:Logo64_AverageAgricultural.png]]
[[image:Logo64_RichAgricultural.png]] [[image:Logo64_MainlyAgricultural.png]]
[[image:Logo64_MainlyIndustrial.png]] [[image:Logo64_PoorIndustrial.png]]
[[image:Logo64_AverageIndustrial.png]] [[image:Logo64_RichIndustrial.png]]

The Icons for the tech level were made by me:

{|
! Tech Level !! Logo for the System template !! Compact version for tables
|-
!1|| [[image:Logo_TL1.png]] || [[image:Logo_TL1s.png]]
|-
!2|| [[image:Logo_TL2.png]] || [[image:Logo_TL2s.png]]
|-
!3|| [[image:Logo_TL3.png]] || [[image:Logo_TL3s.png]]
|-
!4|| [[image:Logo_TL4.png]] || [[image:Logo_TL4s.png]]
|-
!5|| [[image:Logo_TL5.png]] || [[image:Logo_TL5s.png]]
|-
!6|| [[image:Logo_TL6.png]] || [[image:Logo_TL6s.png]]
|-
!7|| [[image:Logo_TL7.png]] || [[image:Logo_TL7s.png]]
|-
!8|| [[image:Logo_TL8.png]] || [[image:Logo_TL8s.png]]
|-
!9|| [[image:Logo_TL9.png]] || [[image:Logo_TL9s.png]]
|-
!10|| [[image:Logo_TL10.png]] || [[image:Logo_TL10s.png]]
|-
!11|| [[image:Logo_TL11.png]] || [[image:Logo_TL11s.png]]
|-
!12|| [[image:Logo_TL12.png]] || [[image:Logo_TL12s.png]]
|-
!13|| [[image:Logo_TL13.png]] || [[image:Logo_TL13s.png]]
|-
!14|| [[image:Logo_TL14.png]] || [[image:Logo_TL14s.png]]
|-
!15|| [[image:Logo_TL15.png]] || [[image:Logo_TL15s.png]]
|}

=== Templates ===
To ease the programming and helping to get a more consistent look, I designed various templates:

{|
|-
|The System Description Box on the right side || [[Template:System]]
|-
|The box for the original Oolite System Descriptions || [[Template:GalacticCatalogueEntry]]
|-
|Header, Entry and Footer for a Witchspace List || [[Template:WitchspaceHeader]] [[Template:WitchspaceEntry]] [[Template:WitchspaceFooter]]
|-
|Header, Entry and Footer for a Systems List ||[[Template:SectorTableHeader]] [[Template:SectorTableEntry]] [[Template:SectorTableFooter]]
|}

=== Dummy templates needed to accomodate ancient MediaWiki ===
As the extension ParserFunctions 1.1.1 for the MediaWiki 1.9 does not support the "switch" function, I had to work around some problems by creating a bunch of dummy Templates:

{|
|-
!colspan="4"| Needed for Number-to-Icon conversion in the System template header
|-
!colspan="2" | Government Icons
!colspan="2" | Economy Icons
|-
| [[Template:SystemDummyGov0]] || {{SystemDummyGov0}} || [[Template:SystemDummyEco0]] || {{SystemDummyEco0}}
|-
| [[Template:SystemDummyGov1]] || {{SystemDummyGov1}} || [[Template:SystemDummyEco1]] || {{SystemDummyEco1}}
|-
| [[Template:SystemDummyGov2]] || {{SystemDummyGov2}} || [[Template:SystemDummyEco2]] || {{SystemDummyEco2}}
|-
| [[Template:SystemDummyGov3]] || {{SystemDummyGov3}} || [[Template:SystemDummyEco3]] || {{SystemDummyEco3}}
|-
| [[Template:SystemDummyGov4]] || {{SystemDummyGov4}} || [[Template:SystemDummyEco4]] || {{SystemDummyEco4}}
|-
| [[Template:SystemDummyGov5]] || {{SystemDummyGov5}} || [[Template:SystemDummyEco5]] || {{SystemDummyEco5}}
|-
| [[Template:SystemDummyGov6]] || {{SystemDummyGov6}} || [[Template:SystemDummyEco6]] || {{SystemDummyEco6}}
|-
| [[Template:SystemDummyGov7]] || {{SystemDummyGov7}} || [[Template:SystemDummyEco7]] || {{SystemDummyEco7}}
|-
!colspan="4" | Needed for Number-to-Text conversion in the System template header
|-
!colspan="2" | Government Texts
!colspan="2" | Economy Texts
|-
| [[Template:TextDummyGov0]] || {{TextDummyGov0}} || [[Template:TextDummyEco0]] || {{TextDummyEco0}}
|-
| [[Template:TextDummyGov1]] || {{TextDummyGov1}} || [[Template:TextDummyEco1]] || {{TextDummyEco1}}
|-
| [[Template:TextDummyGov2]] || {{TextDummyGov2}} || [[Template:TextDummyEco2]] || {{TextDummyEco2}}
|-
| [[Template:TextDummyGov3]] || {{TextDummyGov3}} || [[Template:TextDummyEco3]] || {{TextDummyEco3}}
|-
| [[Template:TextDummyGov4]] || {{TextDummyGov4}} || [[Template:TextDummyEco4]] || {{TextDummyEco4}}
|-
| [[Template:TextDummyGov5]] || {{TextDummyGov5}} || [[Template:TextDummyEco5]] || {{TextDummyEco5}}
|-
| [[Template:TextDummyGov6]] || {{TextDummyGov6}} || [[Template:TextDummyEco6]] || {{TextDummyEco6}}
|-
| [[Template:TextDummyGov7]] || {{TextDummyGov7}} || [[Template:TextDummyEco7]] || {{TextDummyEco7}}
|-
!colspan="4"| Needed for Number-to-Icon conversion with sorting capabilities in the System amd Witchspace List Entry
|-
!colspan="2" | Government Icons
!colspan="2" | Economy Icons
|-
| [[Template:TableDummyGov0]] || {{TableDummyGov0}} || [[Template:TableDummyEco0]] || {{TableDummyEco0}}
|-
| [[Template:TableDummyGov1]] || {{TableDummyGov1}} || [[Template:TableDummyEco1]] || {{TableDummyEco1}}
|-
| [[Template:TableDummyGov2]] || {{TableDummyGov2}} || [[Template:TableDummyEco2]] || {{TableDummyEco2}}
|-
| [[Template:TableDummyGov3]] || {{TableDummyGov3}} || [[Template:TableDummyEco3]] || {{TableDummyEco3}}
|-
| [[Template:TableDummyGov4]] || {{TableDummyGov4}} || [[Template:TableDummyEco4]] || {{TableDummyEco4}}
|-
| [[Template:TableDummyGov5]] || {{TableDummyGov5}} || [[Template:TableDummyEco5]] || {{TableDummyEco5}}
|-
| [[Template:TableDummyGov6]] || {{TableDummyGov6}} || [[Template:TableDummyEco6]] || {{TableDummyEco6}}
|-
| [[Template:TableDummyGov7]] || {{TableDummyGov7}} || [[Template:TableDummyEco7]] || {{TableDummyEco7}}
|}