Forum:External Chronology Backlog

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Chronology backlog
Copied from same article in User talk:Argadi Why not invite some trusted, eager, editors to help out? Pick one or two you like and ask if they would lend a hand? See how it goes. Iron out the bumps. Then recruit even more help.

I notice there is almost a one year backlog. So some thought should be given to what is not working yet? Does the work need to be simpler? Would a template for each entry help?

First goal should be to get the current pages updated as they come out. Then have someone work backward towards last year. Have someone work forward. Give an award to the one who crosses the midpoint first. :) We can't do this all by ourselves. With the Hugo win we should be getting a new crop of energetic folk. If there is something specific they are asked to do they might even get in the habit of helping. --Rej 04:39, September 12, 2010 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I'm to busy to do much, and cheerleading others to do the work is not my style. Even in its current state I find it useful for locating pages. Feel free to encourage others to work on it. (There are disadvantages to keeping it totally current. Lagging by a week or two gives better context for what is important and often fills in more names and useful information.) Argadi 21:49, September 12, 2010 (UTC)

Getting Help
Well, there you have it. We are approaching the point where the chronology will be backlogged as far a year back. Without some focused effort we are offering a service that isn't of very much service. So it would be good to have helpers and I believe there will be willing effort supplied if asked for.

Keeping things up to date
Despite Argadi's suggestion to wait a week I think keeping current is the only way to go. There is so much to do for each week that the work at least needs to be started the week things come out.


 * id is the comic date.
 * vol is the current volume.
 * story - I am not sure what the story field wants in it.
 * page is simply the successive number of the page ( or not, for side stories ).
 * characters are links to those characters who appear on the page
 * This should be simple to fill in if we start with a list of character groups.
 * quotes - how do we judge what constitutes a significant quote? How do we tell what doesn't?
 * text - what does the text consist of?
 * actions - What constitutes an action? What does not?
 * extras - What constitues an extra? What does not?

Breaking up the task
What can be done the week the comic comes out? What can be done within the month/major scene/story arc?/ Who will do what?

To get the backlog out of the way we seem to need several tasks taken on:


 * 1) People to keep the chronology current.
 * 2) Fill in the rote stuff: id,page,characters
 * 3) Fill in the stuff that requires thought: Story,quotes,actions
 * 4) People to tackle the backlog
 * 5) Someone to work backward from the current
 * 6) Someone to work forward from the end.
 * 7) People to assign themselves to specific segments of the comic needing work.
 * 8) I am suggesting this be done by Foglio subsection as that is easy to track and edit. It only works for sections in the middle where the headings are known.