User:Iritscen/CategoryTree

Note to geyser: being your usual diligent self, I know you will notice this new page. The wiki seemed a good place to post this as a working document that we can use to arrive at the final tree of categories. Some parts will look familiar because they're from your original draft.

Also, just a reminder, the Category Tree extension goes hand in hand with this, so we should ask Alloc about installing it on the wiki. Without it, the only page that shows categories is Special:Categories, which lists all cat.s at all levels; CatTree will let us see the hierarchy properly, once it's in place.

Iritscen

Please don't be pedantic about "chibi" etc. If it's "chibi" to those who draw it, then it should be good enough for you. I can assure you that Russians (RedDog and SeverED included) have no idea what "SD" means. And to me as a non-native English speaker, "super deformed" sounds, well, ugly: it's an inconvenient mouthful with a teratological connotation. "Chibi" has a much more kawaii sound to it, so unless you have another Japanese term, just STFU ^_^ --geyser 22:54, 10 November 2008 (CET)

"Contents" sounds sensible for something that's supposed to read roughly as a TOC. If you're looking for a funky name, you can call the root "Prime". --geyser 22:54, 10 November 2008 (CET)

"Early renders" is applied improperly sometimes to in-game screenshots, sometimes to stuff that was rendered after Oni was shipped. I'd delete it. --geyser 22:54, 10 November 2008 (CET)

The "Art by Mullins" is not really fan art, and some of the art by Guido and Russian artists is project-oriented. I suggest a looser hierarchy there. --geyser 22:54, 10 November 2008 (CET)

"Wallpapers" don't necessarily qualify as fan art: think screenshots, high-res versions of splashscreens, or more or less "official" wallpapers. --geyser 22:54, 10 November 2008 (CET)

"Humor" sounds like too general a name for humorous images. You can make that name more specific and/or allow for a more general Humor category. --geyser 22:54, 10 November 2008 (CET)

"Illustrations" is an ambiguous name, and it is counterintuitive (and in many cases wrong) how is implicitly excludes art, screenshots, etc. --geyser 22:54, 10 November 2008 (CET)

Frames from the intro and outro don't really qualify as in-game content, as well as the splashscreens. Also, what about other games than Oni? --geyser 22:54, 10 November 2008 (CET)

I'm afraid I can't make a definitive statement on any trunk after "Images" as a whole. Just a few casual remarks right now. More, later, maybe. --geyser 22:54, 10 November 2008 (CET)

"Oni support" sounds like an "Out-of-universe Oni" or "Technically Oni" kind of thing. Have a quick look at Dunepedia. What about modding tutorials? --geyser 22:54, 10 November 2008 (CET)

I wouldn't call "Templates" an "Administrative" category. Also, the categories should be named as explicitly as possible and in "... templates" --geyser 22:54, 10 November 2008 (CET)

I would have other remarks, e.g., about "Added value" or "AE" vs "Modding projects", but that'd be more or less subjective and polemical. Later. --geyser 22:54, 10 November 2008 (CET)

Generally, categorizing modding projects right now is hard, because the tools are in development and the perspectives are unclear. Scope creep. --geyser 22:54, 10 November 2008 (CET)

I think we both know by now that the Cat Tree is not really a tree, i.e., multiple parents are actually allowed. Please take this into account. --geyser 22:54, 10 November 2008 (CET)

Category Tree Proposal

I believe all current categories are in this tree. I also renamed some, and obviously had to make a few new ones. --Iritscen
bold = new cats
italics = renamed cats
plain = current cats

Fundamental -- we need a root, or "level 0" category, and this is what Halopedia calls it; WP calls it Contents, but I'm fonder of this name

Images

Art

Art by Lorraine

Chibi -- *sigh*, if we must continue to have this

Concept art

Early renders -- probably should be called Concept renders, or maybe we should remove it and just use "Concept art" for the 3D stuff too)

Dark Horse comics

Fan art

Art by Guido

Art by Craig Mullins

Art by Rina

Fan renders

Second-hand art

Project Konoko V

Wallpapers

Humor -- notice how it's outside "Fan *art*"

Promotional art

Avatars and sigs

Glyphs

Illustrations -- made for articles, should not be art, but rather diagrams or screenshots of apps such as OUP

OBD hex images -- current name, "OBD data images", is redundant

In-game images -- formerly "In-game art"

Fly-in portraits

Intro sequence

Outro sequence

Screenshots

Splashscreens

Logos & icons -- need to change the ampersand to "and", though

Oni modding

BSL

Modding projects

Anniversary Edition

AE to-do

Current modding projects -- onss that aren't finished; I foresee this as being useful; when project is done, it gets filed under a sub-cat. of "Finished" below

Finished modding projects -- sub-cat.s are taken from cat.s used on Mod Depot, except added cat. for levels

Animation mods

Character mods

Comprehensive mods

Level mods -- I don't like this name, got a better idea?

Scripting mods -- currently "Scripts"

Texture mods

Translation mods

Weapon mods

Outdated modding projects

Modding tools

OBD

Oni support -- not all that happy with the word "support"; I want to convey that this is for all pages with facts about Oni, that are not facts from within the Oni universe

Gameplay tools

Help -- containing pages like Troubleshooting and Gameplay

Tutorials

Pre-beta

Patches and upgrades

Oni universe

Added value

Characters

Factions

BGI

TCTF

SWAT

Syndicate

Strikers

Elite

WCG -- or should it be Civilian?

Oni 2

Weapons -- for your wanted cat. "Campbell Equalizer", etc.

Administrative

Candidates for discussion

Candidates for speedy deletion

Policies and guidelines

Templates

Administrative -- such as {{delete}} (we really shouldn't have two cat.s with the same name, though)

Formatting -- anything not a table, header or footer

Headers and footers

Macros -- currently "Standard terms"

Notices -- such as {{SeeTalkPage}}

Tables