In the new "Worldbuilding: AMALGAM" thread...

Labster said Wrote:Is it the Grand Plan or the Ineffable Plan?

Here's an entry from the list in my working notes ranking the various unfriendlies that could affect my usual characters:

Quote:AMALGAM: A shared threat with San Antonio, so Leonard isn't going to show his own face in Ottawa very often. Leonard is collecting some powerful allies, though - the Social Welfare Agency operatives from Gunslinger Girl, Awaki Musujime, and [REDACTED] are only three. Has A Plan. (No, really - he isn't a nBSG Cylon. He Has A Plan. Don't know what that plan is, but he has one.)

G'day! I can't figure out where on the MediaWiki site to ask for help with coding an evaluation in a template, so I'll start by asking here:

First question: Can I evaluate the value of one field based on the contents of a different field?

Second question: Can I use wildcards in an evaluation? If yes, what is the syntax of the wildcards?

The specific case:

I've imported the Wikipedia template "Infobox" to the freebie wiki and have written a template that uses it. Right now, my code for the "image" parameter in the calling template is an if/else check that displays the image if a parameter exists or adds a category if the parameter is blank:
|image = {{#if:{{{image|}}} |[[File:{{{image|}}}|250px]] |[[Category:Page Needing Image]]}}

I now have a request for a third case check in that line:

1. if no value is passed to "image", display nothing and add the category "Page Needing Image" to the page, exactly as above;
   
2. elseif a value is passed to "image" and a value that contains a call to a template named "unavailable" is passed to "data1", display the file with a gray background;
   
3. else, display the file with the default background, exactly as above.
   

Yes, I know the technical term is "malapropism", but in this setting they're Minako's specialty. I thought it might be convenient to have a place to list them.

Starting off, David Morgan-Mar's commentary to this strip has me thinking Minako might offer to play the Devil's avocado.

One year ago today, COVID-19 was declared a pandemic.

Ten years ago today, the Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant was hit by a tsunami.

So, how's everybody's day been?

So, it at last appearrs - the Rebuild of Evangelion which begun 14 years ago has now, at last, drawn to a close.

First impressions are, that it's definitely an Evangelion film. "“It’s not that it was no good, but I was like ‘Is that how you’re gonna end it?!?’”

I'm sort of posting it here, rather than elsewhere.

It'll be a while before I see it - with internation distribution being what it is but it's a melancholy thought.

Of course this means, no more Service! Service! Service!

I have been stuck on a combat scene for weeks, if not months.

I have finally powered through it, which is why the running count for chapter 4 at the forum top just jumped 11K.  I do have to tie it all off yet, but I think I just bludgeoned the hard part into a manageable paste.

I will tell you now... episode nine is likely to be the last thing from the first season's original plot that will be vaguely recognizable for quite a while.

February freeze
man-made instability
lawnmower in March

This got stuck in my mind somehow. Maybe posting it will exorcise the silly thing.


"Douglas, do *not* ask me to wax poetical. My talents in that direction are akin to those of my namesake."

You know what to do.