Category:Templates

Templates are helpful tools for consistently formatting or tagging articles.

Rationale[edit | edit source]

Historically, game-editor wikis go through a phase of having many edits by interested players when they are first released: during this phase, templates do cause a greater learning curve and more work for all editors.

This initial interest drops rapidly, however, and drops off into the "long tail" period where a few core members do all the work, for many years. This is where templates come into their own, and if pages have been created using them, allow these few members to make sweeping improvements across many articles in a fraction of the time.

The rationale was discussed on the Geck Wiki, for those interested in history.

At the moment, the wiki is in the phase where making it easy for many users to apply their pre-existing wiki skills outweighs the need for longterm maintenance, so most of the templates are of the type that can be inserted inline into a page, and are there to simplify the more complex image and table markup.

Only the procedure template exists to show the more full-page templating of the future.

Notes[edit | edit source]

• If making edits to a template, please click the "what links here" link to the left to find which pages use the template, and make sure they are not broken by your changes.
• Special:WantedTemplates wants YOU!
• To list all templates, including those that are not in this category (which should be none, but...), go to Special:AllPages, leave the textfields blank, and select the "Template" namespace in the dropdown. This should show all templates.
• If you use one or more equals signs (=) in a template, it will probably not do what you expect, unless you surround it with nowiki tags, like: <nowiki>=</nowiki>