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Welder Disambiguation

Discussion in 'Space Engineers' started by ketura, Oct 17, 2014.

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  1. ketura

    ketura Trainee Engineer

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    It's obviously a bit of a problem that the game itself doesn't mind to call multiple things the same thing, but in particular it's annoying for the Welder, which has not only the usual Large Welder / Small Welder difference, but also the handheld tool that is completely different in application (if not in use).

    I can see that others have bumped into this problem in the past, and the rather inelegant solution was to rename the ship-based welder to Ship Welder and leaving the handheld under Welder. Besides resulting in annoyances with alphabetizing (who looks for "Welder" under "S" in tables?) it is nonstandard wiki parlance and has the result that someone doing a search for "welder" is automatically directed to the handheld tool, context be damned.

    So to fix this, I spun up a Disambiguation template and renamed the two Welder pages to Welder (Ship) and Welder (Tool), while the Welder page acted to disambiguate. I'm in the process of editing the pages that use [[Welder]] to point to the proper place, but in the case of automated tables using #ask I can't fix it.

    #ask uses the name property which I can modify, but it seems that the icons are linked to the name, so renaming to Welder (Ship) and Welder (Tool) would result in them looking for Welder (Ship) Icon.png etc, which does not exist. I have also found that I do not have access to changing the names of icons.

    TL;DR: can someone with privileges rename Ship Welder Icon.png to Welder (Ship) Icon.png and Welder Icon.png to Welder (Tool) Icon.png?
     
  2. ketura

    ketura Trainee Engineer

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    Update: this same treatment has been applied to Grinder (Tool) and Grinder (Ship). Some pages have also been moved to more accurately reflect their name within the game itself (such as by removing the word "Block" from the name where this was not accurate within the SE Client). Pages which have had their icon file name orphaned due to the name change, and thus need the icon file names changed to reflect the exact page/item name:
    In addition, the following pages were just created and have no icon whatsoever due to oversight:
    Also, the Timer Block did not have a page but for some reason had an icon, making sure we could win Odd File Combination Bingo. This one seems to work, except that thumbnails in #ask-generated tables don't work, getting an error of "Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination".
    If it's easier, just look for the missing icons in the Blocks and Tools pages.

    EDIT: Now that Stone Ore has been renamed to Stone, Stone Ore Icon.png also needs renamed.
     
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