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| '''The Conference Table''' is for discussion of the Infosphere, and proposals for new ideas. For information about upcoming changes to the Infosphere, see [[Current events]]. | | This is the former page of the '''Conference Table''', please use [[Infosphere:Conference Table]] for creating new discussion. This is purely for history purposes. |
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| ==Throwing down the gauntlet== | | ==Background Jokes== |
| In light of the announced ressurection of the show, I think it's time to throw down the gauntlet, as it were. We need to commit ourseles to making the Infosphere the most comprehensive site for Futurama info on the web by 2008. We're well on our way, and it can only keep going up from here. Lets keep those articles coming! {{user:Gopher/sig}}
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| ==PE Building Floorplan== | | == Referencing other episodes. == |
| I'm asking for help. I have a few key episodes that I know of, but I'd like you guys to take any screenshots you can find (even low quality ones) and mail them to me (check my userpage for the email link). I'd like pictures of known areas of the PE building, covering as much of the floorplan as possible. Like in some scenes, you can see the TV area through the door in the conference room area (and that's pretty consistent, since on the outside, the TV area window is near where the conference table spot should be). Stuff like that. I'm going to start working on a map, and I'm hoping to be as accurate as possible. Areas that are difficult to locate should also be sent, and you can let me know where you think the area is. I'll color-code the map so speculative areas and canon areas are distinguishable. Thanks for the help. {{User:Buddy13/sig}} 14:19, 12 August 2006 (PDT)
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| :Still no screenshots. I've got a few myself, and I'll start sketching out the floorplan. I'll be doing it in SVG, so I can post the work in progress and making changes will be easy. Any comments or such on where you think things are would be helpful. [[User:Buddy13|Buddy]] 21:56, 24 December 2006 (PST)
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| ==Template Request== | | == Image standards and choices == |
| I'd like to see a ProductArticleTemplate created. After seeing the page on [[Popplers]], it seems that a bit more polish is needed on the subject. The only two articles in the Products category are [[Dr. FlimFlam's Miracle Cream]] and [[Slurm]], and both are inconsistent even with each other. A standard of some sort needs to be created. What sort of information would be common to most product pages? Product type (be it medical, food, industrial, et cetera)? Maybe manufacturer? Any ideas? {{User:Buddy13/sig}}
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| == Userbox == | | == Levelling system == |
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| I think we should have userboxes that I have attempted to create. --[[User:Dagpile|Dagpile]] 12:34, 25 November 2006 (PST)
| | == Types of characters; splitting secondary characters into 3 == |
| :We currently don't have the right version of mediawiki to do this the easiest way, but we can probably make a few. What type of boxes do you have in mind? - [[User:Quolnok|Quolnok]] 20:49, 25 November 2006 (PST) | | :''Move to [[Table:Types of characters; splitting secondary characters into 3]].'' |
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| Well, ones like "This user is an administrator on this Wiki", or what shows you like or "This user is a member of the welcoming committee" and a few others. Some others include what you do like, such as foods. --[[User:Dagpile|Dagpile]] 11:47, 26 November 2006 (PST)
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| :[[User:Quolnok/boxtests|Here]] are some samples, I'll colour them in and make some others later. - [[User:Quolnok|Quolnok]] 18:56, 26 November 2006 (PST) | | :''Move to [[Table:Inline episode/film/comic references]].'' |
| ::[[Infosphere:Userboxes]] - [[User:Quolnok|Quolnok]] 18:44, 30 November 2006 (PST)
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| I'm eager to see more. And I'm eager to plaster my user page with them, proclaiming myself to be on break. (still my favourite one) [[User:Buddy13|Buddy]] 21:56, 24 December 2006 (PST)
| | == ''Bender's Big Score'' on UMD? == |
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| ==Al Gore in the movie?!== | | == Needing Image Template == |
| Pretty much confirmed by the new Cohen interview, wasn't it? I'll leave the video up, in case anyone wants to do something with it (converting it to MPG would be nice ;) →[http://futurama.overt-ops.com/algore.mov here it is]
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| ==ABSG Quota== | | == Donations for new server == |
| I was listening to one of the commentaries (forgot which one) and [[John DiMaggio]] responded to a character's use of the word "Ass" by saying there had to be a quota for "Ass" and "Bastard". So I had a crazy idea to actually watch the show and count every occurrence, but I also remembered that in other commentaries, they'd said this show has the highest gasp-per-episode rating, and highest slaps as well. So I added them as well. So I started a tally of the number of "Ass", "Bastard", Slaps, and Gasps, and started making a chart. I know it's dumb, but it's fun. You can visibly see the slap count jump when [[Mom]] shows up. Anyway, I'm a few episodes into Season 2, and I thought I'd see what people thought of the idea. Here's what I have so far. The first spike is the first Mom episode ([[A Fishful of Dollars]]). I can't tell you which colour lines are what right now, but the coloured backgrounds are obviously the seasons. I've yet to add labels to any of it, but I will (in the appropriate Futurama font). {{User:Buddy13/sig}} 11:14, 30 November 2006 (PST)<br />
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| :Heh heh, that's actually kind of cool. I expect the most "ass"es is going to be [[War is the H-Word]] - [[User:Quolnok|Quolnok]] 17:04, 30 November 2006 (PST)
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| ::"I can say ass again! Ass, ass, ass!"
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| Still working on it. [[User:Buddy13|Buddy]] 21:56, 24 December 2006 (PST)
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| == What makes a minor character? == | | == Notability == |
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| I have thought for a while now that perhaps Sal shouldn't be classed as [[Minor Characters|minor]], I've prevented one attempt to move [[URL]] to his own article but am reconsidering after the second attempt (Smitty would obviously be non minor also, I still think they should share an entry... is it URL or Url?). It seems obvious that [[Australian Guy]] and [[the Crushinator]] should go into the minor characters page as well. Is there a better way to describe minor characters? Something about the amount of episodes, being the focus of an episode, relative of other major character, etc. - [[User:Quolnok|Quolnok]] 18:19, 2 December 2006 (PST)
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| :Australian Guy is in at least two episodes (HHRHGB and APTR), but he's still quite minor. Maybe recategorize them into "Primary Character", "Secondary Character", and "Tertiary Character"--that word's a tad unknown, but it makes sense. Then we could put numbers to how many episodes makes the difference between 2nd and 3rd (primary is obviously the PE crew). {{User:Buddy13/sig}} 19:48, 3 December 2006 (PST)
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| I'm proposing a vote to define characters into four clearly-defined classes:
| | == Animatics == |
| *Primary Characters: PE Crew, examples include [[Philip J. Fry]], [[Amy Wong]]
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| *Secondary Characters: Minor characters that appear in more than one episode, examples include [[Hattie]], [[Sal]]
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| *Tertiary Characters: Characters that appear in only one episode, examples include the Taco Bellevue chihuahua doctor, [[Beck]]
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| *Psuedocharacters: Characters that are mentioned but never seen, such as Leela's boyfriend Shawn, and I. C. Wiener
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| Please vote and add your comments if you think you can improve the system.
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| :While they are more clearly defined, we still need to determine who gets an individual article. Primary, most secondary and a few tertiary would get individual articles I think. All relatives of primaries would be in an individual or shared article of some kind. Most already are, with exceptions like Enos and Mildred, Yancy and Mrs. Fry (Fry's parents), Yancy and Mrs. Fry (Fry's brotherand his wife) some of these are by the above definition Tertiary. Secondary collects characters like The Masked Unit, who is never really focal in his main episode and pops up in the background a few times. So I think a bit of refinement is still needed to be used for individual/group article distinction. - [[User:Quolnok|Quolnok]] 02:22, 25 December 2006 (PST)
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| | == Something I'ma work on. == |
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| | == I demand more connections! == |
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| == Lists == | | == Categories for voice actors? == |
| I think that some categories (such as planets, locations, Farnsworth inventions, non-Farnsworth technology, products, alien species, ships, animals, robots... ) must have an article with a list, as episodes or comics categories. The information in each item must be (at most) a very brief description, an image, and references to episodes. If an item has a bigger description or it is relevant, then it must have its own article linked from the corresponding list item (but preserving the brief description in the list). So, we avoid a possible large amount of short articles. What do you think? [[User:Bender22|Bender22]] 02:44, 9 December 2006 (PST)
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| :Yeah, you're probably right. (except for robots, those are still in the minor charaters page) - [[User:Quolnok|Quolnok]] 03:04, 9 December 2006 (PST)
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| :Personally, I'd love for everything to have an article of its own. But I think we should start with conglomerate pages, like the minor characters page. As more info is written, sections can be removed to their own pages. I know this won't work for things where very little is known, like [[Minor Characters#Shawn|Shawn]], since an entire article is a bit much just to say "This is Leela's boyfriend that we never see." Anyway... *runs off* —[[User:Buddy13|Buddy]] 21:56, 24 December 2006 (PST)
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| == Transcripts == | | == Calling all Nerdlingers! == |
| How about we use transcripts for episodes, just like commentarys, just these are all the quotes in the episode. --[[User:Electricbolt|Electricbolt]] 13:26, 23 December 2006 (PST)
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| :There's another site that has transcripts. Forgot which one, though. --[[User:Buddy13|Buddy]] 15:25, 23 December 2006 (PST)
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| I think its [http://gotfuturama.com Gotfuturama]. --[[User:Electricbolt|Electricbolt]] 14:21, 24 December 2006 (PST) | | == Oh yes, I forgot... == |
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| ==News, everyone!== | | == Infosphere:Portal == |
| That Cohen interview made me very giddy. --[[User:Buddy13|Buddy]] 15:25, 23 December 2006 (PST)
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| ==Redirects== | | == Chinese Infosphere - coming up == |
| I have noticed that there are short redirects of characters names like the other Wikia about [[Futurama]]. But there is only redirects for [[Fry]], [[Leela]], and [[Bender]]. Do you mind if I add the others? --[[User:Electricbolt|Electricbolt]] 19:55, 24 December 2006 (PST)
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| :Thanks for pointing those out. I have now deleted them. Prior active members had agreed that redirects are unneeded. Typing "Fry" into the search box yields results, the first of which is for [[Philip J. Fry]]. We avoided redirects to prevent contributors from being lazy, and to provide searchers with related pages they might not have found otherwise. If we want to vote again on the redirect issue, we can do so. But until a vote is held, I'll enforce the previous decision. [[User:Buddy13|Buddy]] 20:36, 24 December 2006 (PST)
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| ::In fact, while editing other stuff, I found the [[Help:Standards|Standards]] page, which is where this is mentioned. All new users should read the help pages.
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| In fact, here's a vote:
| | == Linking to Redirects == |
| Do we wish to allow redirects of shortened/common names to the actual articles? Examples: Fry → Philip J. Fry, Zoidberg → Dr. John Zoidberg, et cetera.
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| | == Pixelations == |
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| | == Season 6 is fact == |
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| [[User:Electricbolt|Electricbolt]] 13:55, 25 December 2006 (PST) | | |
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| | == More Categories == |
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| | == Forum style for the Conference Table? == |
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