User:FeralKitty/Sandbox/Navigation

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To do

  • Drop down navigation
  • (New two-column layout for main page)
    • Consider article ToC column on main page?
  • (Update FAQ and MiniFAQs)
    • Merge or maintain separate FAQs by game?
    • Move game-specific MiniFAQS into tabs or visually identify by game?
  • Categories
    • Xbox 360 Game -> Classic
    • New Viva Pinata category as top level for ToC, other categories?
  • Jump-to navigation?


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Trouble in Paradise is a popular landing page, and also gets navigated to often. We should consider turning that(/each) game's article into a portal, helping visitors find information more easily, since they probably already play the game and are looking for more than general information.

This is a rough first-draft concept, showing sections for popular articles and popular questions. What (else) should we include on the portal page?

  • Section for links to Rare? VivaPinata.com?
  • News to draw attention to official forum announcements/contests?


Introduction

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Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise is the sequel to Viva Piñata: Classic which was released on September 2, 2008 in North and Latin America and September 5, 2008 in Europe and the United Kingdom. A demo is available for download through Xbox Live.

Viva Pinata: Trouble In Paradise is a brand new adventure where players will once again visit the thrilling world of Piñata Island. However this time around there are more problems than ever! Professor Pester and his gang of Ruffians have destroyed Piñata Central's database and have put the world's supply of delicious candy-filled piñatas at stake. Now it is up to player to establish a garden and rebuild the database. It is up to you to save Pinata Island!


Here are some of the new features that it includes:

  • 28 new Piñatas
  • New desert and arctic terrain and pinatas
  • Toys and trains for your pinata to interact with. You can also teach pinatas to perform tricks
  • New camera tool allows you to take pictures in your gardens and upload photos to VivaPinata.com
  • Just for Fun casual mode - No sours, no weeds, infinite chocolate coins... but doesn't have access to some of the more exotic pinata species.
  • Couch Social local co-op - second player has access to all tools, actions and activities, and also can collect "magic" to spend on tinkering items, healing a sick piñata or filling a pinata's candiosity meter
  • Piñata Vision uses printed cards with a unique barcode that can be scanned via the Xbox Live Vision camera

Popular frequently asked questions

No. It's part of Pester's plan to prevent certain species from visiting your garden. Meet the Goobaa Appear and Unblock requirements, and the Chippo will wander off.

See more frequently asked questions.

Popular Trouble in Paradise articles

Trouble in Paradise piñata species - Standard

Arocknid · Badgesicle · Barkbark · Bispotti · Bonboon · Bunnycomb · Buzzenge · Buzzlegum · Camello · Candary · Cherrapin · Chewnicorn · Chippopotamus · Choclodocus · Chocstrich · Cinnamonkey · Cluckles · Cocoadile · Crowla · Custacean · Doenut · Dragonache · Dragumfly · Eaglair · Elephanilla · Fizzlybear · Flapyak · Fourheads · Fudgehog · Galagoogoo · Geckie · Goobaa · Hoghurt · Hootyfruity · Horstachio · Jameleon · Jeli · Juicygoose · Kittyfloss · Lackatoad · Lemmoning · Lickatoad · Limeoceros · Macaraccoon · Mallowolf · Moojoo · Moozipan · Mothdrop · Mousemallow · Newtgat · Parmadillo · Parrybo · Peckanmix · Pengum · Pieena · Pigxie · Polollybear · Ponocky · Pretztail · Profitamole · Pudgeon · Quackberry · Raisant · Rashberry · Reddhott · Roario · Robean · S'morepion · Salamango · Sarsgorilla · Shellybean · Sherbat · Smelba · Sparrowmint · Squazzil · Swanana · Sweetle · Sweetooth · Syrupent · Taffly · Tartridge · Tigermisu · Twingersnap · Vulchurro · Walrusk · Whirlm · White Flutterscotch · Zumbug


Button a.png Trouble in Paradise
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 FAQ Button x.png Species Button y.png Piñata Vision Button a.png P-Factor
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 Couch Social

MediaWiki.org uses this in their documentation (e.g., Installation guide, technical guide).

Jump-to navigation helps users travel from one article to other related articles. The navigation would vary, depending on the topic, and some articles might not have jump-to navigation. We already use it (in a see-also format) in a few places (e.g. Category:Species).

In a sense, the navigation brings the "pages in the category" details (e.g., Category:Trouble in Paradise with minor omissions) to each page.


Considerations

  • Consider using (existing see-also format or jump-to) navigation on more articles, to help visitors easily get to other related articles.
  • Consider switching from a see-also text format to a more visual layout, to make the navigation stand out, and be distinct from the article.
    • Con: Jump-to tables and tabs might visually conflict.
    • Con: More likely to stretch the screen at low resolutions.
    • Con: Jump-to can't clearly spell out (as catmore currently does) that there is a category article with more information:
For more information, see Species.


Examples

Species categories and their category articles

Button a.png Species
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 Classic species Button x.png Trouble in Paradise species Button y.png Pocket Paradise species

Hybrid using catmore and jump-to

For more information, see Species.
Button a.png Classic species
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 Trouble in Paradise species Button x.png Pocket Paradise species


Trouble in Paradise articles, text format


A - Z


By game

Categories and their category articles
General Classic Trouble in Paradise Pocket Paradise Party Animals TV show
Category:Species

Species

Category:Classic species
List of Viva Piñata: Classic species 		Category:Trouble in Paradise species
List of Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise species 		Category:Pocket Paradise species
List of Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise species 		   
Category:Plants

Plants

Category:Classic plants
List of Viva Piñata: Classic plants 		Category:Trouble in Paradise plants
List of Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise plants 		Category:Pocket Paradise plants
List of Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise plants 		   
None
None

Category:Xbox 360 Game
None

Category:Trouble in Paradise
Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise

Category:Party Animals
Viva Piñata: Party Animals
   
Category:Commonly asked questions


Navigation approaches

  • Popular article column (subset of articles for a topic)
  • Topical index? A-Z? Featured on (Wikipedia) Main Page
  • Dropdown/flyout menus

Organizing pages by "topic" so we can see how/where they'd fit in to the different approaches. Topic names are arbitrary and can be refined later. Some articles belong to different topics/games but are generally listed once for now. Redirects to be removed next pass.

General

Businesses

Licensing, merchandise, developers, producers

Games

Classic

Trouble in Paradise

Pocket Paradise

Party Animals

Challenge Events

Gameplay

Concepts

Garden items

Group produce, tinkered items for now

Tips, strategies, answers

Characters

Shops/Shopkeepers

Tools

Site


TV show

Episodes

Cast

A-Z

Trying out icons to distinguish/identify different game information. Adding new game-specific sections to FAQ (instead of maintaining separate FAQs per game).

If a question only applies to one game, do we want to show the icon, or omit it?

General questions
Trouble in Paradise questions

General questions

What is Viva Piñata? Classic Trouble in Paradise

"Viva Piñata" is a vibrant world of living piñata animals filled with spontaneity and fun. The colorful and unique animals live and thrive in a growing garden where they interact with each other bringing adventure to life. The piñata universe is exciting and humorous – a place where anything can happen.

Classic The television series debuted in September 2006, the Xbox 360 game launched in November 2006, and a line of merchandise will be available in 2007.

Trouble in Paradise Trouble in Paradise launched in September 2008. A demo is available for download through Xbox Live.

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Commonly asked questions
I've spent days and days trying to get a Chippo to be a resident with no luck. Is this a glitch? Classic Trouble in Paradise

Like the Elephanilla (see answer), this is another pinata that takes time to reside. As with any pinata that needs multiple visits, it's important to keep in mind that you probably won't get the exact same Chippopotamus, the next time a wild one visits your garden.

Always make sure to maintain well more than 14 (9 for Trouble in Paradise) watercress or water lilies or bullrush in the garden, and replant the ones it eats. If its Visit requirements are no longer met, it will leave the garden early, drawing out the number of visits needed.

If you've got a visitor that only needs to meet one or two more requirements, try not to distract it with other items that it no longer is required to eat. One tip is to whack the plants that a particular visitor needs to eat, and move the flower heads near where he visits/eats, to help speed things along. This way, it will hopefully eat more of what it needs to eat, instead of randomly devouring whatever it's fond of.

Ultimately, patience is the key, while you pay attention to its needs, and keep your garden well-planted. (Either that, or you could pay someone off to ship you one.) View thread

See also: Elephanilla questions


(I don't think it looks that good to try to inline these icons within answers, e.g., ... than 14 (Trouble in Paradise 9 for Trouble in Paradise) watercress, so I suggest we only lead paragraphs with the icon.)

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