User talk:Hardvice/IMDb links
Hardvice, great job on all those co-appearances. I'm especially enjoying the challenge it looks like you've set for yourself to word each connection section in a different way. Plus, this page is a great resource. — RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 13:28, 17 April 2007 (EDT)
- Especially if you have an extension that lets you lasso multiple links and open them in tabs. :) It's cut the time it takes to find co-appearances in half, since you can just scan for visited links. As for the wording, it started off as a matter of necessity (some people appeared with more than one person in one work and some people appeared with the same person in more than one work) and has turned into a matter of fighting the monotony. Ideally, if we can get everybody done (probably over the summer break), then we'll just have to check new characters as they appear.--Hardvice (talk) 13:36, 17 April 2007 (EDT)
- Incidentally, I just found a better Firefox extension for this: Web Developer. In addition to a bunch of other fairly useful tools, it lets you mark all of the links on a page either visited or unvisited--without actually having to visit them. If you do that on this page, then look somebody up on IMDb, all of the links for actors with whom they've appeared will be marked in a different color, so you can just scan through the cast list on each project looking for purple links.--Hardvice (talk) 16:49, 29 April 2007 (EDT)
- Looks awesome, Hardvice, thanks! I'll have to install it when I get back home. The only thing to be careful of is television shows--we don't want to say that somebody appeared in CSI (for example) with somebody else if they were different episodes. — RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 17:56, 29 April 2007 (EDT)
- Incidentally, I just found a better Firefox extension for this: Web Developer. In addition to a bunch of other fairly useful tools, it lets you mark all of the links on a page either visited or unvisited--without actually having to visit them. If you do that on this page, then look somebody up on IMDb, all of the links for actors with whom they've appeared will be marked in a different color, so you can just scan through the cast list on each project looking for purple links.--Hardvice (talk) 16:49, 29 April 2007 (EDT)
Directions
Thanks for the directions. I was struggling with how to mark some links visited without marking every link I've ever visited. -- RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 06:26, 1 October 2007 (EDT)
Adds
I labeled and alphabetized all the links to make this page more of a useful resource and to make adding new folks easier (since you can now tell if they've already been added or not). Please feel free to add links to new actors as they appear. The more complete we can keep this page, the more useful it becomes.--Hardvice (talk) 03:41, 12 October 2007 (EDT)
Category Listing
- So if you transclude a category, it only includes the category article (i.e. the description), not the list of articles in the category. Is there any way to transclude a list of articles in a category? It would be useful to print the list of Cast articles without real-world images here where their IMDb links are centralized.--Hardvice (talk) 05:11, 12 October 2007 (EDT)
Snaplinks
Why do I need to click all of an actor or actress's works in IMDb each time I search for co-appearances? As I see it, the script provides the auto-marking of Heroes actors' pages and then you simply check each of the links. I dont' see the benefit of going to all the links before actually going through them again to check for co-appearances. Unless I'm over analyzing and the snaplinks to so that you don't have to rotate from project to actor page over and over again. Please enlighten me. -- Lulu (talk) 21:56, 28 February 2008 (EST)
- The way I use, it each step provides a different function:
- Using "Mark All Links Visited" means that all Heroes actors pages will appear in the visited link color. This makes them stand out (more later).
- Snap links lets you grab 30 or so projects and open them in new tabs while keeping the actor page open in its own tab. Saves time.
- The Greasemonkey script makes these links go to the full credits, not the summary page. The summary page doesn't always list the full cast, so small or uncredited co-appearances can be missed.
- Now, it's simply a matter of paging through all the tabs you opened and looking for visited-colored (on my machine, purple) links instead of unvisited-colored (on my machine, blue) links. Since you can see at a glance whether the page has any co-appearances, and since you have a whole stack of tabs opened, and since you are seeing full cast pages instead of summaries, you can do a very thorough job very, very quickly.
- Of course, you don't need to do any of that; you can simply click through each person's projects and look manually for names you recognize, which is how I originally did this. However, as the guest cast grew, I found that I would occasionally miss someone's name. The visited links make that much less likely. The rest of it was inspired by folks like Erick Avari and Cristine Rose who've been in hundreds of projects; clicking back and forth between projects and the actor's page was time consuming and boring. The Greasemonkey script really only saves one click per page, but given the sometimes sluggish IMDb load times, it adds up.--Hardvice (talk) 04:08, 29 February 2008 (EST)