User:EnEpiLink

Hello World
EnEpiLink is a bot to link episode titles from the source articles into various listing pages.

Initially it'll probably be done in Python, even though I've never personally used it. But since theres a bot framework started in python already, it seems to be the logical first move...

The purpose is to keep any Episode summary changes syncronized with their listings. Using simple markup of some type, I believe this bot could become very useful in maintaining syncronization between articles.

In addition, Wiki engines could begin to utilize the markup to minimize database size by having Text in One Spot.

Usage considerations
(obviously up for debate... remember to indent any comments)

In a source article, you could surround the "exportable" text in markup:

This is the episode summary

And to use the summary in a description, you could use standard "variable formatting" inherit in Wiki engines

{TextLink:(WikiLink):(exportable Id)}

{TextLink:Parallels:SummaryText} which would expand to "This is the episode summary".

IN addition, the Wiki engine could somehow use the textlink as a way link the text, instead of embedding it. (but that would be a Wiki engine update, later down the road)

Current Status
Pre-alpha stage, where I'm asking for an RFC for the function and usefulness of the bot.

Sample Output
Instead of a simple listing of episode titles in a Series page (like the Voyager series) where each episode is simply linked, a table could be produced that takes the short summary description of each episode. This allows for quick "oh yeah, thats the episode I'm thinking about" type of listing, to quickly help the user filter down, in the episode context, of what he's looking for.

Example
This is copied from the modification to the VOYAGER Series page that I did, where the Episode listing was converted from a more simple unordered list of Episode titles that link to the exact Episode articles, into a table showing the Episode Title (with link) plus the Episode Description in the next cell: (copied in case it doesnt survive Admin review)

Season 1
(16 episodes)