Talk:Thann

Brilliant
Moviesign, Good call transcluding the family tree from a subpage. I should have thought of that. ~ Lhynard (talk) 06:53, November 27, 2014 (UTC)


 * That table is bigger than most of our articles :P and it makes a scrolling box in the Oasis skin, so I'd like it to be smaller so it fits on the screen if possible. Also, as I mentioned at Template talk:Succession box, if this is a copy of a published family tree, then it is likely a copyright violation and we will have to delete it. However, if it was gleaned from various sources or deduced from passages in a novel, then it's fine. &mdash;Moviesign (talk) 07:07, November 27, 2014 (UTC)


 * No, I did the tree myself using info from my sourcebooks and on the this wiki, so we should be good, legally.


 * I generated it using a template for charts and trees on Wikipedia in my sandbox, viewed the page source, and cut and pasted the HTML with some manual edits. All kinds of not straight-forward, but it actually didn't take that long. The longest part is using the wiki template.


 * I agree that the scrolling is not great. I'm trying to think of a better way of presenting a family that has ten children....


 * Ideally, if we like these trees, we could get the template from Wikipedia, and it wouldn't take up a billion lines of HTML, but the template has ~100 subpages to it, so I can't transfer it. Someone with file-import writes would have to do that.


 * Alternatively, I could use flowchart-generating software to make an image, but that wouldn't have linking ability.


 * ~ Lhynard (talk) 07:20, November 27, 2014 (UTC)


 * So, I shrunk the text in the tree so now it fits without an H-bar. ~ Lhynard (talk) 07:37, November 27, 2014 (UTC)


 * I still see a scroll bar using Oasis on my laptop, but it's closer. I suspect if I look at it on my bigger desktop monitor, it will disappear. Keep in mind that an increasing number of viewers are using mobile devices to access the wiki. I think the only way to make it skinny enough would be to use two staggered ranks of five, rather than 10 across (plus a spouse for 11?). Another idea would be to use an image. Images are scalable so people can click on it and see it full size, and we can add an image map to turn the boxes into links. See the image in World Tree cosmology for an example. &mdash;Moviesign (talk) 15:12, November 27, 2014 (UTC)