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, Oresri, and Aronar 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...

FIXED

I have to find out where to get the Information on sun and planet colors and station types. I strted a thread asking for more information in the

I have to find which OXPs are considered canonical enough for inclusion into the guide. As a start, I included Famous Planets 2.0.OXP in my OXP Catalog. DONE

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 agreeable, I will manually integrate those pages.

I (re-)found the Rough Guide and included links in the Fiction Catalog. DONE

I'm planning to integrate two more advanced features into a systems' page:

• An overview map to locate the system in the map
  DONE
• a local area map showing the worlds in witchspace distance.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). First tests at home work nicely, but EliteWiki is missing too many functions for that.

Both can be done by abusing the "timeline" feature of the MediaWiki if I read the documentation correctly,

Nope, not needed. It's all a bit of CSS...

Updates

October 5th, 2009

I fixed the missing Planet Radius and added a small overview that shows the local system on a small sector map.

I prepared and included the data needed for a dynamically generated loacal area map, but this will have to wait.

I started a catalog on OXPs and Fiction that involve a particular system to show how I plan to integrate OXP and written fiction data. See Aronar as an example with both FP2.0 and Rough Guide entries.

Contact

For requests and criticism use the thread Galaxy Guideon the Oolite Bulletin Board. or send me a PM there.

If you can help with knowledge of the game engines interna, please participate in the thread [1]. Pretty, pretty please with sugar on top!

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