Template:Fanart
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This template inlines posts from fanart threads nicely with links to the post (click the icon).
A post ID number is the only required input.
Optional Parameters
- board
- Specify the board on which to find the post, e.g.
|board=quest
. The default is questdis. - caption
- Put a caption below the image. Captions can contain limited markup, but shouldn't be too long.
- by
- Attribute the image's artist. Will be linked automatically.
- mouseover
- Specifies mouseover text for the thumbnail.
Examples
Description | Code | Output | ||||
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Short and simple. Just the provide the post ID number. |
{{fanart|111411}} |
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Credit the artist, if you know who they are. It's okay to leave it blank if you don't know and the artist didn't leave their name. |
{{fanart|110849|by=LimeBreaker}} |
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Captions can be informative or silly. You can put links inside of captions. |
{{fanart|120758|caption=[[Polo Quest|Polo]] in a pile}} |
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Long captions may extend past the edge of the thumbnail, which doesn't look great. |
{{fanart|122701|caption=Here's some Moon Elf from Audit}} |
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You can make long captions look better by using <br> to manually break up lines. The show preview button helps a lot with this.
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{{fanart|122701|caption=Here's some<br>Moon Elf<br>from Audit}} |
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You can also hide text that will appear when people move their cursor over the thumbnail. (May not work in all browsers, or on mobile). |
{{fanart|122612|mouseover=surprise!}} |
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If you want to link an image that's not on the /questdis/ board, you need to specify the board name. |
{{fanart|board=draw|39396}} |
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Creating a Gallery
The fanart template's most common use is creating galleries in quest articles.
- The gallery will usually be the last heading in a quest article, above the authorbox (if any) and category tags.
- Authorboxes are optional- they aren't generally created until a quest author has at least 2 or 3 quests.
- Divide the gallery between official art, drawn by the quest author, and fanart, drawn by others.
- If a quest has no official art or no fanart, you can omit that heading.
- If a quest has no official art and no fanart, you can omit the gallery all together!
- Try to avoid including official art from the quest threads in the gallery. The gallery is meant to collect art from other locations a reader might miss. Draw threads, Fanart Threads, Holiday threads, etc.
- Use by to credit fanart creators whenever possible.
- It's not necessary to use by for official art unless the quest has more than one author. The quest author is already credited in the infobox.
- Art in galleries is usually arranged chronologically.
- If an image contains characters from multiple quests, use a caption to link the other quest articles.
- Or if characters are dressed up as each other, etc.
- If a quest has art that is not safe for work, use Template:NSFWsubpage to create a separate nsfw gallery.
- If all the art is safe for work, you can omit this template.
- A NSFW Gallery should use Template:NSFWreturn to link back to the quest page and include Category:NSFW Galleries.
Quest Article Gallery
==Gallery== {{NSFWsubpage}} ===Official=== {{fanart}} {{fanart}} ===Fanart=== {{fanart}} {{fanart}} {{Quest author's name}} [[Category:????]]
NSFW Gallery
{{NSFWreturn}} ==Gallery== ===Official=== {{fanart}} {{fanart}} ===Fanart=== {{fanart}} {{fanart}} {{Quest author's name}} [[Category:NSFW Galleries]]
See also
- Template:questart A renamed version of the fanart template. Maybe someone once intended to differentiate these templates, but currently using one or the other is just a formatting convention.
- Template:Flash The fanart template, but for flash.
- Template:Fanfile The fanart template, but for mp4s.
- Template:Fanaudio The fanart template, but for audio files.
- Template:Fakeart The fanart template, but it lets you pick a different thumbnail for fakeouts.
- Template:Comic Provides a text link to an image posted on the board, instead of providing a thumbnail.
Maintenance notes
- It depends on the set of redirects that let you look up kusaba resources by post number:
…kusaba/thumb-for/board/post
→…kusaba/board/thumb/thumbnail-filename
…kusaba/image-for/board/post
→…kusaba/board/src/fullsize-image-filename
…kusaba/thread-for/board/post
→…kusaba/board/res/thread.html#post
- And because MediaWiki is kind of dumb, a hack that lets it ignore a
.png
extension on these and let the browser sort out the details withContent-Type
.
- It makes assumptions about the maximum size of thumbnail images, namely that they'll never exceed 250px width.
- It doesn't play nice with gallery tags (
<gallery></gallery>
) because Mediawiki syntax doesn't allow for external images in them.