In the midst of all this gunner stuff, we have the opportunity to come up with new, more flexible, more consistent templates. With the alchemy path template needing an overhaul, I decided to invest my time making this "dream" a reality, because the extent to which I can help with the alch path is limited...I can fuse rows like a boss, but plug-n-chug of that complexity is best left to editors who have a broader scope of available coding commands. Like raven! and icytea! Yay those two people!
Waiting for the userbase to generate existing recipes via gameplay to get more pics up too, since these seem to come from Basil. There's quite a few out there already.
The mediawiki version we have does not have a tabber extension, sadly. Funny enough, the wiki interface itself sort of has a tabber. Sort of. (The page/edit/discussion stuff, but these are not exactly "it" - they go to different URLs. But it's funny to me). So, I'm making something that is LIKE a tabber, but not quite - with the same ease of information, page consistency, and compression.
Go to the Plated Grizzly Sentinel Armor Page to see an example of the Card in action. I'm still working on it of course! Be sure you're looking at the most recent version of the page before giving feedback. Feel free to compare revisions though.
Goals:
Make the wiki look a little more like the in-game interface, but maintain wiki familiarity.
Force page consistency. Shields/Armors/Helms have different info locations than weapons, which I noticed when going through implementing changes talked about in forum node 106056.
Be adorable. I call it "Item Card Project" because the template sort of looks like a cute ID card for the item it's got all that information about.
It will also let us move sections around more easily, if the information is contained in {{{content}}} type things. This is something I implemented in various tablelist templates in case we wanted to move the {{{description}}} somewhere else and so on. Example - simply move the {{{description}}} to another place in the mother template, and bam, the content is in a column instead of a tooltip. Tahdah! Back to the main point:
I would very much enjoy feedback on this "Item Card" project. But please focus on the gunner stuff, of course. Just putting this in the forums for timestamp purposes.
EDIT:
Feedback from Chesh: prioritized show/hide sections to be on the bottom, so important stats information isn't pushed all the way through the bottom of the page to Pluto, which isn't even a planet.
Feedback from Bopp: this seems like making a page within a page. But organizing pages consistently is nice.
It's nice, but isn't this putting the entire wiki page into a templated box? There are two aspects:
First, using a template would help us make item wiki pages very consistent. It seems like a decent idea to me.
Second, having that template generate an info-box-like thing (but giant) seems like a bad idea. The page's content doesn't need to live in a container. The page itself is the container. So I would strongly advocate for a very different visual presentation, with very little show/hide action. Just give me a page with all of the information about the item, and let me skim to the section that I want.