Forum:Ship classification

I've been thinking, and discussing with Ghelae, one ting I should do before I'm totally off the wiki is classify ships. So, my idea was that the Galot in the DCP decide that the best way to know their enemy & ally would be to classify all starships encountered, which would help show their strengths & weaknesses. Of course, ship classification wouldn't just be for fictional universe, but still.

My reasons are that
 * 1) I'll have something I can do as a send off
 * 2) It'll encourage people to edit more; taxonomy projects are a good way to help

So yeah. I was thinking something like this:

V1
 * Structure - Immobile/Mobile to replace kingdom, immobile for space stations &
 * Type - Demonic, Gyronic, Nuclear, Electronic etc
 * Function - Star cruiser, dreadnuaght, star fighter, worldship etc
 * Size - Garganutan, Colossal, etc, or tiers
 * What should go here, well it replaces family so I guess we could just add some sort of equivalent (manufacturer? but then there's the problem of manufacturer being for ships with different functions) or not have it
 * Weaponry/Power? Like, Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3, as per your blog (Tier X for no weaponry)
 * Development Project & Class - To replace Genus & Species, of course, Development Project would be different

V2
 * Structure
 * Type
 * Size - worldship, Star Cruiser etc
 * Function - Dreadnuaght ships could range from worldship to Star Cruiser, for example (i disagree with this but you may thnk so_
 * Weaponry/something else
 * Development Project & Class

For the template you & I could do that (mainly just a case of changing kingdom to structure etc), and ask Ose how to get it to work in building, vehicle & fiction namespaces.

As for parent, some may say that it'd be difficult if different functions had similar names for weaponry class. well, for example, Demonic star cruisers wouldn't be named Star Cruiser, some demon name, and Gyronic Star Cruisers, well I'll think of something.

Another thing you might be thinking is that people use the fiction pages for ships. Well, my idea was that, in the blog to announce it, we add a code (only with the taxon, creator & name parameters so it's not too big) that people can copypaste into sections for each ship on the database page. Personally I disagree with people using that namespace for vehicles as it wasn't designed for it, but hey. If Ose disagrees then it can be moved to just Vehicle:DCP fleet like what Jovar did with his.

So, any thoughts? I'll be back for about an hour every few days, so I should be able to respond.-- 12:09, January 30, 2011 (UTC)