Template:Infobox/Doc

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Purpose

Infobox/Doc by LionsPhil
Thread

This is the template for making a neat infobox for a quest. Docs will follow.

Usage

Parameters (all are optional):

Metadata

title

Title of the quest. Defaults to the current page name; normally you should leave it to do this.

author

Quest author; will be linked to as a wiki node, even if it has whitespace.

image

Quest image, without namespace. Will be thumbnailed to fit.

Threads

All thread parameters must be numbered, starting from 1. For example, thread1=500|thread2=600….

threadN

Post numbers for the threads of the quest.

disthreadN

Post numbers for discussion threads.

Specials

For example, 'April Fool' versions of quests.

specthreadN

Post numbers for any 'special' threads.

specthreadNboard

Board for corresponding 'special' thread; defaults to quest.

specthreadNname

Name for corresponding special thread.

Example

A quick reminder of MediaWiki template syntax; whitespace is reasonably flexible either side of the pipes, so do whatever is most readable:

{{InfoboxQuest|author=TestPattern|image=tozol_title.png
|thread1=79880|thread2=94645
|disthread1=316424
|specthread1=156238|specthread1name=April Fool's Edition
}}

Maintenance notes

• Depends on the automatic redirect from /quest/ to /questarch/ for archived threads (semantically, the /quest/ version is considered its canonical URI). This allows the "current thread" to work without having to be flagged as special in any way.
• Depends on [ParserFunctions extension] to support optional parameters gracefully. This makes the code pretty hairy, so take care editing.
• The maximum number of threads is limited by the implementation repeating the definition for each number. Unfortunately this is a common MediaWiki paradigm as it has no set handling in templates.