User talk:ChronoAnon

Personal Pages
If you want to make a personal page, go for it. Keep it to big e-celeb like Internet Aristocrat, Mundane Matt, etc. who are undoubtedly public figures. If you're in doubt, it probably better not to make the page. Psycho Robot (talk) 02:39, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

You're the editor now dude
Because your edits haven't sucked, I made you an editor. Your edits are automatically approved and you can approve other revisions. Psycho Robot (talk) 02:20, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
 * How do I know if there are other edits? Also, thanks. I shall resume creation of the ultimate timeline with my Chronomantic powers. ChronoAnon (talk) 02:25, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
 * On the Special:RecentChanges page, there's a link at the top to approve revisions. There you can see what pages have unapproved revisions, and what pages haven't been approved at all yet. You don't need to do this, it's just if you want to do it. Any edits you make are automatically approved as you make them. Psycho Robot (talk) 02:29, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

Timeline
Bit of feedback about the timeline edits. First off they're great in general. However since it's a timeline, I don't think it's appropriate to include sections that aren't dates. If a series of events are all related and happen all on the same date, they should probably be summarized as much as possible and put in a single bulletpoint. Also I toned down the images. Images of people are fine, but images of logos aren't very interesting and clutter the page. As for the horizontal rules, I agree but they are unnecessary as the page will eventually be split up into months, so each date will automatically have a rule. In fact I think I might work on that now. Psycho Robot (talk) 01:13, 24 November 2014 (UTC)


 * I'm going to disgree here. The timeline is a pretty important narrative, and needs to be inviting to as many readers as possible. The horizontal rules help to beak things up into more inviting pieces. I really think that the horizontal rules are needed
 * As to the images, I tend to think they give visual readers something concrete to focus on and allow interesting events and person to be introduced quickly. The goal is to inform as many people as possible, particularly non gamers, so my strategy was to summarise the most important events in the images to some degree. Mediawiki hates images though, so I understand that they clutter things. I'll see if I can find a better solution, but I'd argue that images are important. ChronoAnon (talk) 01:18, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm going to have to disagree on the subheadings as well. Again they allow a reader to have a quick summary of what is actually being described. The timeline is a long read and should be as digestable as possible ChronoAnon (talk) 01:24, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Well, tell you what. Let's split it and then try out subheadings and see how it looks. You might have a point. Psycho Robot (talk) 01:34, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I finished the split, if you could show me what you had in mind as far as subheadings. Psycho Robot (talk) 01:45, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
 * The Split is a great idea! But Before I say anything else, I think the August page should be the primary page in the timeline, the first page people click on.


 * Now, I should say that I think we might have different philosophies on the timeline. My thinking is that the timeline should be a primary narrative for understanding Gamergate, something to be read by as many people as possible. Things like subheadings give the reader quick summaries of what they are reading, and and explanatory paragraphs give further details to those who are not gamers. Also, I think using images to quickly summarize important events makes things more inviting to read. Basically the timeline should tell the interesting story in an interesting way.
 * I'm aware that Mediaiwiki does not like images. How good the page looks depends on browser settings. I'm currently working off the idea of a 1280 wide display.
 * I'll add some subheadings and other other text back into the August edit. ChronoAnon (talk) 01:55, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't have a super strong opinion on the timeline. I just know that some people were saying that you went a little too far with the images. I'll ask what they think of it now and see what they say. Psycho Robot (talk) 02:16, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, there's no easy way to add images to Mediawiki without affecting the flow of text. I'm using them as quick summaries of important events for readers. I'll try looking into the gallery syntax again. Hopefully it's installed. ChronoAnon (talk) 02:27, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
 * That is an interesting idea. You could put related images in a gallery at the bottom of each date. That way it would be horizontal and not fuck up headings or anything. Psycho Robot (talk) 02:32, 24 November 2014 (UTC)