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In a perfect world, every relevant page of a magazine scan would be getting used somewhere on Sega Retro. For example, I would expect every page of Sega Visions to be spread across "XXXX/Magazine articles" pages, or failing that, promotional material galleries. If, say, page 13 had been missed out, the only way you would know is to cross reference every page of the magazine - that's not going to happen.
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Crude but workable way of determining how magazines are being referenced on Sega Retro.
  
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So I've (re)invented [[:Template:MagCheck]] as a crude way of working out any pages we've missed. Give it a publication code and an issue, and it'll print out a list of pages:
 
  
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{{MagCheck|code=mdag|issue=2}}
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It takes a while to compute:
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<pre>{{MagCheck|code=smf}}</pre>
  
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{{MagCheck|code=smf}}
  
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(unfortunately I have no easy means of telling it how many pages are in each magazine, so I'm using the highest found page number for that).
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You can also specify a single issue:
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<pre>{{MagCheck|code=mdag|issue=1}}</pre>
  
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It's using [[Special:CargoTables/publications]] as a database. Right now I've only got it linked up to [[Template:Magrow]], so if an article is 5 pages long, it's only going to count the first page. But it should be enough to see which magazines have been completely ignored.
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{{MagCheck|code=mdag|issue=1}}
  
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-[[User:Black Squirrel|Black Squirrel]] ([[User talk:Black Squirrel|talk]]) 08:47, 13 May 2018 (CDT)
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The "gaps" are filled by any template that calls [[Template:MagStore]]: magazine article rows and print advert galleries. The idea is to fill in the empty squares.
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Things it probably isn't handling properly:
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*multi-page reviews
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*reprints
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*pages that cover multiple topics - e.g. if there's an advert for three games, it'll just show the one
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*you'll get the occasional red square because it gets confused with some punctuation. The issue is fixed, but it might take some time for the wiki to update.

Latest revision as of 10:41, 19 July 2022

Crude but workable way of determining how magazines are being referenced on Sega Retro.


It takes a while to compute: 

{{MagCheck|code=smf}}

Sega Master Force (UK) #1: "August 1993" (1993-06-24):

Sega Master Force (UK) #2: "September 1993" (1993-07-22):

Sega Master Force (UK) #3: "October 1993" (1993-08-19):

Sega Master Force (UK) #4: "Autumn 1993" (1993-09-16):

Sega Master Force (UK) #5: "November 1993" (1993-10-14):

Sega Master Force (UK) #6: "December 1993" (1993-11-11):


You can also specify a single issue: 

{{MagCheck|code=mdag|issue=1}}

Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming (UK) #1: "September 1992" (1992-xx-xx):


The "gaps" are filled by any template that calls Template:MagStore: magazine article rows and print advert galleries. The idea is to fill in the empty squares.

Things it probably isn't handling properly:

  • multi-page reviews
  • reprints
  • pages that cover multiple topics - e.g. if there's an advert for three games, it'll just show the one
  • you'll get the occasional red square because it gets confused with some punctuation. The issue is fixed, but it might take some time for the wiki to update.
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