WikiProject Irish Football

[DannyInvincible]

I've started a WikiProject for Irish football if anyone would like to participate. It's still in its early stages, but you're all are free to join and express any ideas you feel would help.

You'll find it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Irish_Football

[theworm2345]

I've started a WikiProject for Irish football if anyone would like to participate. It's still in its early stages, but you're all are free to join and express any ideas you feel would help.

You'll find it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Irish_Football
Perhaps these could be of some help
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Republic_of_Ireland_national_football_tea m_results
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Irish_football_songs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Footballers_Playing_Abroad

[DannyInvincible]

Cheers.

You should include your username as a participant as I see that most of your contributions on the site are related to the international side.

[theworm2345]

Cheers.

You should include your username as a participant as I see that most of your contributions on the site are related to the international side.
OK, I will, that Irish Abroad article is under some contention now though

[gustavo]

http://foot.ie/showthread.php?t=23260
this thread might prove useful

[theworm2345]

http://foot.ie/showthread.php?t=23260
this thread might prove useful
Can someone help with this page, it says we need more info about the social impact, authorship, etc. of Joxer, and I don't know as I wasn't alive when it was released
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joxer_Goes_to_Stuttgart

[theworm2345]

Please vote to help save this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Irish_Footballers_Playing_Abroad

and help with Joxer, please :)

[DannyInvincible]

I've written a bit more about the song based around my sketchy knowledge of the period (I would have been two-years-old at the time). Hopefully it's OK and will be enough to keep it on the site.

[eirebhoy]

I mentioned this in a sticky above but would anyone be interested in putting a wetpaint (http://www.wetpaint.com/) site together? It's pretty much the same as a wiki but it's like an actual website.

Here's an example of one put together by people on a Celtic forum:
http://kerrydalestreet.com/

We could all the categories we want (Past results, Irish players abroad, a list of every Irish player previously capped, etc.). We could have the list of Irish players abroad and add a bio, statistics, etc.

[eirebhoy]

Anyone with a bit of free time want to help me put a wetpaint site together? I've already started it by adding in all the Irish players abroad.

http://irishfootballdatabase.wetpaint.com
(Irish International Football Database was too long)

As you can see it's just a plain site atm so it looks rubbish, especially with if you haven't got google ads blocked (use Firefox!). Every premiership player has a seperate page for stats. Eventually there'll be a seperate page for every player which will look something like:
http://irishfootballdatabase.wetpaint.com/page/Robbie+Keane

Once the site is complete and the foreign seasons begin the Current Season stats can be updated after every match.

Let me know how it can be improved, what can be added. The Career Stats goals/games looks crap tbh but I don't know how to make it look any better. Register to the site and you can edit the pages if you like. Feedback, feedback...

[youngirish]

Good work eirebhoy. I unfortunately don't have the time to help at the moment.

[eirebhoy]

If someone could even add the player pics it'd be great. 120x120 pixels. I'll do everything else.

[tetsujin1979]

If someone could even add the player pics it'd be great. 120x120 pixels. I'll do everything else.
Can you take them directly from Football Manager data directory?

[eirebhoy]

Good thinking. That's the pics sorted for all the leagues bar the premiership. For some reason Football Manager doesn't have any pics of premiership players, crests, etc. At least in my directory anyway.

[tetsujin1979]

Good thinking. That's the pics sorted for all the leagues bar the premiership. For some reason Football Manager doesn't have any pics of premiership players, crests, etc. At least in my directory anyway.
Search around on a few torrent sites, there's an update with over a gig of player pics, club crests, league and cup logos, etc available.
Does the job.
Think the format is in PNG though, is that a problem?

[eirebhoy]

Cheers. png is fine. I just added the Stephen Elliott's (http://irishfootballdatabase.wetpaint.com/page/Stephen+Elliott) pic from the FM database.

[GavinZac]

i'm pretty sure most of the ones that are with FM are copyrighted by PFA. i wouldnt use them on my own site, and you definitely shouldn't put them on wikipedia as its against their rules

[eirebhoy]

So what's the best option? It'd be best to have all pics the same size. I've tried resizing and cropping but it'd take me forever. Anyway, the premiership one's I've downloaded should be fine.

[GavinZac]

So what's the best option? It'd be best to have all pics the same size. I've tried resizing and cropping but it'd take me forever. Anyway, the premiership one's I've downloaded should be fine.

well the images on wikipedia are all free-to-use so if you downloaded them and just set a specific height for the image when including it on your own wiki, they'd all be free (as in speech, rather than as in beer) and the same size.

[geysir]

While I was searching on Wikipedia for Worm's 'Irish Abroad' article (sorry Worm looks like you lost) I came across this one
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jnestorius/Republic_of_Ireland_national_football_team
The chapters on 'Post War', 'Improved Management' and 'Jack' look like they were transcribed from a telegram, sent by a Gabby Hayes character, tapping a railway line with a shovel.

[Paddy Garcia]

I see that Tony Grealish still needs to be added. I'm assuming it is still work in progress.