Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-36291880-20180722184355/@comment-3361105-20180725213527

Koavf wrote: Hatebunny wrote: Trust me. I tried to copy what Marvel is doing. It doesn't work without completely restructuring the way our wiki's infrastructure works.

Can you expand on this? In fact, since the big Lua push, marvel has switched to a different method of doing chronological appearances (and all appearances in general).

That method involves a Lua Module called Module: Appearances, which seems to do weird stuff I didn't know was possible (mostly, adding additional text after a pagename in the category's list-view).

Suffice it to say that, having had many a discussion where I made it pretty clear that none of use knows how to write in Lua, I'm not sure that just straight-up copying their module to our wiki would have the same effect - nor that I would want to copy it exactly, given that most of us DC people hate some of the ways that the marvel wiki treats its content (No, not going to expand on that).

That said, it's worth seeing if Nathan or Annabelle from Marvel can help us adapt their module for alternate categories for chronological appearances... Which is to say that if we did adopt something like this, I think it would suit the DC people more if we had a category page for alphabetical, and another for chronological, so as not to lose one in favour of the other.