Pixar Cars Wiki:Project Next-Gen

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Project: Next Gen    

The Disney•Pixar CARS Wiki is back and better than ever. Here are some ongoing editing projects, and how you can help bring us to the Next Gen!

Character glossary

Word on the street, the character and media lists have gotten some major upgrades...

Thanks to the Cargo extension, we're now able to efficiently store and update shared info across multiple different pages. Each and every time a {{character infobox}} appears on a page, the image, name, and series origin defined within go straight into the Characters table, which tells the official gallery list to instantaneously add them. It also means any edits to the template field are reflected immediately! Cool, right?

Great... but what if a character doesn't have an infobox? Namely, every single resident of the implied list? Or how about those who share one?

Well, we've created special, "invisible" definition templates for cases like this, which can be added on the bottom of the aforementioned page. In the editor, scroll down to the bottom and look for this text: 

<div style="display: none;">

<!-- Add infobox entries for the [[list of characters]] below this line! -->

{{Mentioned infobox|name=Aimee Curber |first_mention=Car Finder Game }}



<!-- End of infobox entries -->
</div>

Once the page is saved, each line (instance of {{mentioned infobox}}) will add the "mystery" badge to the character list, with the name and installment-of-origin as entered. (Don't worry about the (mentioned only) note, that also creates itself.)

Blank template Complete example 
{{Mentioned infobox
 |name= Name goes here
 |first_mention= ''Title'' goes here
}}
 
{{Mentioned infobox
 |name=Aimee Curber
 |first_mention=''[[Car Finder Game]]''
}}

Basically, the goal is to complete the new-and-improved list of characters: Those with pages (the vast majority) can handle themselves, but mentioned-only characters like Jenny or Dale Earnhardt, Sr. need a little bump draft. Or... if you really want to keep it simple...

Infobox upgrades

A popular community request, and inspired by Sacred Texts Pixarpedia and Meet the Cars themselves, you can now set a unique |title_color= for the header and section banners. The |text_color= within can also be changed from white to black when the contrast demands. The |title_color= parameter is designed to take in a six-digit hex value (i.e. #333333), but it also accepts a long list of preset, named values, from red to blanchedalmond – You can probably find one to suit your needs. We also recommend using https://imagecolorpicker.com/ to quickly pull an exact color directly from an image of your choice.

Winford Bradford Rutherford
Vehicle type Capitol Motors Verve XT
Color Yellow, blue, orange, white
Occupation Piston Cup racer for RPM (formerly)
Main portrayer(s) Bill Farmer
First appearance Cars
Latest appearance "Selfie-Day!"
Character information
Nickname(s) The Professor
Gender Male 
{{Character infobox
|name=Winford Bradford Rutherford
|image=Normal rpm.png
 |image_style=padding:20px 0 10px;margin-left: -7px; |image_size=300px

to...

{{Character infobox
|name=Winford Bradford Rutherford
|title_color=#faca30 |text_color=black
|image=Normal rpm.png
 |image_style=padding:20px 0 10px;margin-left: -7px; |image_size=300px
Winford Bradford Rutherford
Vehicle type Capitol Motors Verve XT
Color Yellow, blue, orange, white
Occupation Piston Cup racer for RPM (formerly)
Main portrayer(s) Bill Farmer
First appearance Cars
Latest appearance "Selfie-Day!"
Character information
Nickname(s) The Professor
Gender Male

Some other killer features... a slider of "design variants" for each and every paint job or memorable moment... 

|variants={{Design variants
 |v1=        |image1=
 |v2=        |image2=
 |v3=        |image3=
 |v4=        |image4=
|more=
}}
Ramone
View paint jobs 
Radiator Springs Ghostlight Green Red 


|variants={{Design variants
 |v1=Radiator Springs |image1= Radiator springs ramone.png
 |v2=Ghostlight       |image2=Mater and the ghostlight ramone.png
 |v3=Green            |image3=Ramone5 large.jpg
 |v4=Red              |image4=Cars-hydraulic-ramone2.jpg
  |more = Gallery:Ramone
}}

And perhaps most novel, a similar section for Cars Magazine's "orthographic" views... 

{{Character infobox
|orthos={{orthos
  |front=
  |back=
  |top=
  |left=
  |right=
 }}
}}
DJ
Orthographic views 




Front Right


Back Top 



{{Character infobox
|orthos={{orthos
  |top=DJ (top view - left side).png
  |front=DJ (front view).png
  |back=DJ (back view).png
  |right=DJ (slightly turned to the left).png
 }}
}}

Target goals:

  1. Recreate all of the color associations from Pixarpedia by adding to all its included characters
  2. Fulfill design variants for the major characters (list forthcoming)
  3. Situate all the ortho-s already compiled by I1P3GYTR9 (talk), listed in full here. (More are of course welcome!)

Media index

Main article: List of media

More documentation forthcoming, but if you're familiar with templates, take a quick look at the list of media - it uses the same functionality detailed in the "characters" section earlier. Currently, it's set up to work with films, shorts, games, books, and comics, with support for the more particular categories hot in the works.

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