Guide to a Wiki-Style Factbook, Embassies, and Consulates

by **Todlichebujoku** » Wed Oct 15, 2014 7:27 am

Prokhogorsk wrote:I'd like to say a massive thanks to Ponderosa for this amazing template and also a thankyou to Daskoxian for creating his edit version which I also found to be a great addition!

http://www.nationstates.net/nation=prokhogorsk/detail=factbook/id=314671

This is mine, which is coming along very nicely, if anyone would like to take a look at it.

You're welcome! Your factbook looks great,too, for a WIP (like mine is).

(in case anyone is confused, Daskoxian is my puppet that I used to be more active on for RP, but recently I've been focusing more on my main nation for RP)

by **Post War America** » Wed Oct 15, 2014 10:17 am

This is my provisionally complete Core Factbook

https://www.nationstates.net/nation=pos ... ok/id=1394

It isn't quite finished (nor will it ever be), but I will not however be adding significant portions to the factbook due to the fact that I have hit the character count limit.

by **Western Saharah** » Wed Oct 15, 2014 11:41 am

Question : How I'm Upload The Flag Of Western Sahara To My Factbook

by **Anollasia** » Wed Oct 15, 2014 1:14 pm

Post War America wrote:This is my provisionally complete Core Factbook

https://www.nationstates.net/nation=pos ... ok/id=1394

It isn't quite finished (nor will it ever be), but I will not however be adding significant portions to the factbook due to the fact that I have hit the character count limit.

What limit?

Western Saharah wrote:Question : How I'm Upload The Flag Of Western Sahara To My Factbook

You get an image of your nation and then save it to your computer. Go to a photo hosting website like TinyPic or Photobucket. On TinyPic (don't know about Photobucket), you will see a button which says 'Browse'. Click it. You will need to find your image and open it. Then select the size of the image (I think I chose either 'Website/email' or 'Message board'. You can experiment to see which size is good for your factbook. Then click 'Upload now'. You will get several URLs for your image. I believe you need to copy the 'Forum' URL and paste it into your factbook. And voilà!

Hope that helped.

by **Todlichebujoku** » Wed Oct 15, 2014 1:35 pm

Anollasia wrote:
Post War America wrote:This is my provisionally complete Core Factbook

https://www.nationstates.net/nation=pos ... ok/id=1394

It isn't quite finished (nor will it ever be), but I will not however be adding significant portions to the factbook due to the fact that I have hit the character count limit.

What limit?

The massive factbook character limit, which he has hit by including a massive amount of information.

@Post War America: maybe you can make each (or just a select few) categories more like a short description, and elaborate on it in a separate factbook that would be linked just under the heading?

For example in Wikipedia there would be a link that says: Main article: [link] just under the section heading.

by **Anollasia** » Wed Oct 15, 2014 1:45 pm

Todlichebujoku wrote:
Anollasia wrote:
What limit?

The massive factbook character limit, which he has hit by including a massive amount of information.

@Post War America: maybe you can make each (or just a select few) categories more like a short description, and elaborate on it in a separate factbook that would be linked just under the heading?

For example in Wikipedia there would be a link that says: Main article: [link] just under the section heading.

There's a factbook character limit? How much is it?

by **Todlichebujoku** » Wed Oct 15, 2014 2:26 pm

Anollasia wrote:
Todlichebujoku wrote:The massive factbook character limit, which he has hit by including a massive amount of information.

@Post War America: maybe you can make each (or just a select few) categories more like a short description, and elaborate on it in a separate factbook that would be linked just under the heading?

For example in Wikipedia there would be a link that says: Main article: [link] just under the section heading.

There's a factbook character limit? How much is it?

After some testing, it seems that there is no character limit, but there is an upload size limit. Not exactly sure how it works, but making a new line/hitting "Enter" counts as more than adding another character to an existing line. Using Post war America's factbook as a template, it would be around 91160 characters. If you don't bother making new lines, it could be quite a bit greater.

by **Indian Empire** » Wed Oct 15, 2014 2:40 pm

Union Of Canadorian Socialists Republic wrote:Creating a factbook page for my largest city. Estimated time for completion: 2 years. Damn my procrastination.

by **Todlichebujoku** » Wed Oct 15, 2014 2:49 pm

Indian Empire wrote:
Union Of Canadorian Socialists Republic wrote:Creating a factbook page for my largest city. Estimated time for completion: 2 years. Damn my procrastination.

Your not the first genius with that idea.

http://www.nationstates.net/nation=indi ... /id=225667
http://www.nationstates.net/nation=indi ... /id=228747
http://www.nationstates.net/nation=indi ... /id=229017
http://www.nationstates.net/nation=indi ... /id=229004
http://www.nationstates.net/nation=indi ... /id=226037
http://www.nationstates.net/nation=indi ... /id=229003
http://www.nationstates.net/nation=indi ... /id=229005
http://www.nationstates.net/nation=indi ... /id=229014
http://www.nationstates.net/nation=indi ... /id=229008
http://www.nationstates.net/nation=indi ... /id=229010
http://www.nationstates.net/nation=indi ... /id=229011
http://www.nationstates.net/nation=indi ... /id=229012
http://www.nationstates.net/nation=indi ... /id=223409

Now I just need to publish all of them sometime in my existence...

Might help to use [nation=short+noflag] when linking to nations.

by **Post War America** » Wed Oct 15, 2014 6:55 pm

Todlichebujoku wrote:
Anollasia wrote:
What limit?

The massive factbook character limit, which he has hit by including a massive amount of information.

@Post War America: maybe you can make each (or just a select few) categories more like a short description, and elaborate on it in a separate factbook that would be linked just under the heading?

For example in Wikipedia there would be a link that says: Main article: [link] just under the section heading.

I have considered that, but linkage was part of the reason for my complexity, trying to get some workarounds to that problem.

by **Roma aeternam** » Fri Oct 17, 2014 7:42 pm

Thank you

by **The City-State of Luxembourg** » Wed Oct 22, 2014 6:35 pm

whats the code for the Diplomatic and Consular Immunity table? I can't figure it out

by **Todlichebujoku** » Wed Oct 22, 2014 6:39 pm

The City-State of Luxembourg wrote:whats the code for the Diplomatic and Consular Immunity table? I can't figure it out

That's the US policy for diplomatic immunity, meant as a guide and is not meant to be used as a template.

If you're making your own version, you can just hit the quote button and copy the table formatting.

by **Svatantra Mulukama** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 5:25 pm

Ponderosa, thank you so much for making this thread. It's been a major help. I'm currently working on a wiki style factbook. It's incomplete, but any constructive criticism and comments would be greatly appreciated.

http://www.nationstates.net/nation=svat ... /id=317608

by **Post War America** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 5:34 pm

Svatantra Mulukama wrote:Ponderosa, thank you so much for making this thread. It's been a major help. I'm currently working on a wiki style factbook. It's incomplete, but any constructive criticism and comments would be greatly appreciated.

http://www.nationstates.net/nation=svat ... /id=317608

I would suggest that you use the [float] tool to allow text to wrap around images, and make it look more professional.

by **Svatantra Mulukama** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 5:38 pm

Post War America wrote:
Svatantra Mulukama wrote:Ponderosa, thank you so much for making this thread. It's been a major help. I'm currently working on a wiki style factbook. It's incomplete, but any constructive criticism and comments would be greatly appreciated.

http://www.nationstates.net/nation=svat ... /id=317608

I would suggest that you use the [float] tool to allow text to wrap around images, and make it look more professional.

Sounds good, thanks.

by **Post War America** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 5:45 pm

Svatantra Mulukama wrote:
Post War America wrote:

I would suggest that you use the [float] tool to allow text to wrap around images, and make it look more professional.

Sounds good, thanks.

Do try to mix it up though, given your appearing high picture to text ratio, so instead of all having it on one side break it up a bit.

As an example you could use the

floatleft tool

to float left. That tool is available through this code.

Code: Select all: [floatleft][/floatleft]

.

Or you could also center align a picture if you've got a bar of three to create a row of pictures.

by **Federation of Trelatche** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 6:07 pm

Svatantra Mulukama wrote:Ponderosa, thank you so much for making this thread. It's been a major help. I'm currently working on a wiki style factbook. It's incomplete, but any constructive criticism and comments would be greatly appreciated.

http://www.nationstates.net/nation=svat ... /id=317608

The largest cities list would look nicer if they were in a table format rather than a list; it probably would be easier to read as well. Overall it looks like you have a very promising start

by **Todlichebujoku** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 6:20 pm

Federation of Trelatche wrote:
Svatantra Mulukama wrote:Ponderosa, thank you so much for making this thread. It's been a major help. I'm currently working on a wiki style factbook. It's incomplete, but any constructive criticism and comments would be greatly appreciated.

http://www.nationstates.net/nation=svat ... /id=317608

The largest cities list would look nicer if they were in a table format rather than a list; it probably would be easier to read as well. Overall it looks like you have a very promising start

I have a template with that, you can just copy and paste the relevant parts.

by **Arnoria** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 10:39 am

Thanks to this thread, I've made improvement to my national encyclopedia/factbook (http://www.nationstates.net/nation=arno ... /id=228443). Check it out!

by **Anollasia** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 12:50 pm

Wow, that's certainly a unique format.

by **Federation of Trelatche** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 4:53 pm

Arnoria wrote:Thanks to this thread, I've made improvement to my national encyclopedia/factbook (http://www.nationstates.net/nation=arno ... /id=228443). Check it out!

Good job, that has to be one of the more visually appealing factbooks I've seen in my time. I like that font too, gotta figure out what it's called...

by **Arnoria** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 12:42 pm

Federation of Trelatche wrote:
Arnoria wrote:Thanks to this thread, I've made improvement to my national encyclopedia/factbook (http://www.nationstates.net/nation=arno ... /id=228443). Check it out!

Good job, that has to be one of the more visually appealing factbooks I've seen in my time. I like that font too, gotta figure out what it's called...

Thank you! The font is Century Gothic by the way

by **Arnoria** » Fri Oct 31, 2014 7:59 am

Do anyone knows any factbook that have a great super magnificent design and content? Please share

by **Anollasia** » Fri Oct 31, 2014 12:36 pm

Arnoria wrote:Do anyone knows any factbook that have a great super magnificent design and content? Please share

Mine. You can find it in my signature in the 'Links' spoiler.

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