Autogenerated Galaxy Guide

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

Status

I have set up a 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 Galaxy Guideon 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 spreadsheet and wrote a perl module to give me all the relevant information.

I took the information on trade routes and regions from the 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:

The Icons for the tech level were made by me:

Tech Level	Logo for the System template	Compact version for tables
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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:

Needed for Number-to-Icon conversion in the System template header
Government Icons		Economy Icons
Template:SystemDummyGov0		Template:SystemDummyEco0
Template:SystemDummyGov1		Template:SystemDummyEco1
Template:SystemDummyGov2		Template:SystemDummyEco2
Template:SystemDummyGov3		Template:SystemDummyEco3
Template:SystemDummyGov4		Template:SystemDummyEco4
Template:SystemDummyGov5		Template:SystemDummyEco5
Template:SystemDummyGov6		Template:SystemDummyEco6
Template:SystemDummyGov7		Template:SystemDummyEco7
Needed for Number-to-Text conversion in the System template header
Government Texts		Economy Texts
Template:TextDummyGov0	Anarchy	Template:TextDummyEco0	Rich Industrial
Template:TextDummyGov1	Feudal	Template:TextDummyEco1	Average Industrial
Template:TextDummyGov2	Multi-Government	Template:TextDummyEco2	Poor Industrial
Template:TextDummyGov3	Dictatorship	Template:TextDummyEco3	Mainly Industrial
Template:TextDummyGov4	Communism	Template:TextDummyEco4	Mainly Agricultural
Template:TextDummyGov5	Confederacy	Template:TextDummyEco5	Rich Agricultural
Template:TextDummyGov6	Democracy	Template:TextDummyEco6	Average Agricultural
Template:TextDummyGov7	Corporate State	Template:TextDummyEco7	Poor Agricultural
Needed for Number-to-Icon conversion with sorting capabilities in the System amd Witchspace List Entry
Government Icons		Economy Icons
Template:TableDummyGov0	0	Template:TableDummyEco0	0
Template:TableDummyGov1	1	Template:TableDummyEco1	1
Template:TableDummyGov2	2	Template:TableDummyEco2	2
Template:TableDummyGov3	3	Template:TableDummyEco3	3
Template:TableDummyGov4	4	Template:TableDummyEco4	4
Template:TableDummyGov5	5	Template:TableDummyEco5	5
Template:TableDummyGov6	6	Template:TableDummyEco6	6
Template:TableDummyGov7	7	Template:TableDummyEco7	7