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[Brend]

Mercury and me have worked on improving the planet, moon and star data on the wiki.

Planets and moons previously text-only entries for Atmosphere, Ocean, Type, Orbit Type and Habitable / Natural Life. We have changed this to link to the rules pages. For Example where previously a planet could have "Atmosphere: Type I", it will now have "Atmosphere: Type I Atmosphere".

We have also changed the strange "Habitable / Natural Life" two-field combo to be a single field "Ecosystem" that is either empty, or links to Habitable or Natural Life.

We have updated all moons and planets on the wiki, and corrected a few faulty entries along the way (things such as Ocean: Yes, some worlds that were not set to habitable while they really were, and a misclassified star). We tried our best to correct our own mistakes from the conversion as well, though you might want to check things in your system if you feel something's off.

Further, we have updated the star pages on the wiki to more clearly show the orbits they have, and we have changed their Type field to a link to the rules namespace for the exact type of star. This also made the Color field obsolote.

We have also updated the templates for planets, moons and stars to show the new fields.

And finally, we have added a nice image (shown to the right) to the Habitable page, just because we can ^_^


Because of these changes, we have also updated the Power Tool and the System Display tool. The Population Growth tool is fixed with respect to the changes to how we note the data for planets and moons, but was already giving wrong results for roughly half of the players, so we decided to add a note to the tool telling you this.

[Fedor]

Yay for more cleanliness and structure!

I was wondering, was there any specific reason for doing this, or was it simply cleaning up the data on the wiki so that tools can more easily use it?

[Brend]

It was mainly a cleaning up job, but it does pave the way for smarter (and more easily built) tools.

[Elmer]

I don't see actual changes in the power tool and system overview. I take that this is a good thing ^^

In the power tool, weren't the moons smaller images after the planets to indicate they are moons and stuff?

But overall: Yeey for wiki clean-upness (and image)