Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-1713281-20160508193050

OK, here's what I have for badges so far. These are all straight forward badges that don't need any additional editing from us to implement.

Category:Films

3 Bronze
 * need a name: need an image
 * need a name: need an image
 * need a name: need an image

3 Silver
 * need a name: need an image
 * need a name: need an image
 * need a name: need an image

2 Gold
 * need a name: need an image
 * need a name: need an image

Category:Video Games

3 Bronze
 * need a name: need an image
 * need a name: need an image
 * need a name: need an image

3 Silver
 * need a name: need an image
 * need a name: need an image
 * need a name: need an image

2 Gold
 * need a name: need an image
 * need a name: need an image

Category:Marvel Staff

3 Bronze
 * need a name: need an image
 * need a name: need an image
 * need a name: need an image

3 Silver
 * need a name: need an image
 * need a name: need an image
 * need a name: need an image

2 Gold
 * need a name: need an image
 * need a name: need an image

Secondly, I am working with Nathan to have our templates auto-populate certain hidden categories onto pages depending on what template is active on the page, or if certain tags are used in an infobox. This will help with certain badge tracks we want but aren't feasible at the moment. Those are listed below.


 * Category:Television Series and Category:Episodes
 * Badge category name: still needed
 * The main problem being that adding the track to just the "Television Series" category would only track edits to the main series hubs, and not the individual episodes. We will have the badge category automatically added to any new page that is created with the TV series or TV Episode templates.


 * Category:Earth-199999, Category:Earth-199999 Characters, Category:Earth-199999 Organizations
 * Badge category name: still needed
 * This is where it gets a bit trickier. There are several more subcategories of Earth-199999, but it looks like everything in them is covered by one of these three broad categories. The main issue will be figuring out if we can make our badge category autopopulate onto the page with the use of the infoboxes, in the same way that "Earth-199999 Characters" auto-adds to any page with "Earth-199999" in the Universe field of the character infobox. In theory, we should be able to use that same code to trigger the badge category, but we'll need to see if that's feasible.


 * Category:Earth-10005, Category:Earth-10005 Characters, Category:Earth-TRN414, Category:Earth-TRN414 Characters, Category:Earth-TRN007, Category:Earth-007 Characters
 * Badge category name: still needed
 * Much like the MCU section above, but more complicated because the X-Men film universe is such a mess. I've also included TRN007 in the list, as it is the reality we've assigned to the X2 video game. It's a small addition, but it makes sense to me.


 * Category: Novels
 * So this one is another straight-forward category; it would require no special categories or editing to implement. The main question is should we bother? There are a massive number of Marvel novels out there, but there's never been much work to add them into our site. There's less than 40 listed here now, and at least a third of those are school-children-aged books that don't garner any traffic.


 * The Various "Ages" ("Golden Age", "Silver Age", "Modern Age", etc.)
 * There is a lot of play here, and we can do a number of thing for this kind of badge including all types of subcategories and auto-populated categories. There's a number of things we could discuss adding, but I have a basic idea, at least as a jumping off point. I believe we should limit these to badges for the Golden Age and the Silver Age. Each of those Ages has three categories that I think should be included in a special badge category. First, there's Category:Golden-Age, Category:Golden-Age Characters, and Category:Golden-Age Realities. For the Golden Age, we have Category:Silver-Age, Category:Silver-Age Characters, Category:Silver-Age Realities. Putting those into a special badge category would cover 99% of all relevant pages, we just need to figure out the best way to do so. The Character categories seem to be added by hand in some cases, but automated by others, but the reality templates seem entirely automated. This leads me to assume we can figure out how to do so with the Characters as well.


 * X-Men and Avengers members
 * This is another area where we could bloat out the category with tons of hidden categories and automated categories. For example, do we only include members of mainstream (Earth-616) teams? Or do we include the hundreds of alternate universe versions as well? If we do limit them to just Earth-616 teams, do we only include the main team? We currently only count 98 people of members of the O.G. Avengers team, but that is missing out on dozens of offshoots like the West Coast Avengers, Dark Avengers, Young Avengers, New Avengers, any of the multiple Secret Avengers and however many others. Same goes for the X-Men and the dozens of splinter incarnations created every time a X-Title needs a conflict.

There are sooooo many other areas we could branch into on this, but this seems more than substantial enough for now. 