Gswiki:Style guide/Common templates

When writing for the wiki, there are multiple templates that are used frequently to:

• Share large amounts of repetitive information that may need to be included on many articles (e.g. Template:Material Gear Difficulty Modifier)
• Provide a form for individuals to add information to in order to ensure consistency across articles and create organization (e.g. Help:Item scripts) - this can be broken down into infoboxes (e.g. Template:Player System Manager) and navigational boxes (e.g. Template:Nearlevel) as well
• Deliver a warning or notice (e.g. Template:Official-document)
• Provide style (e.g. Template:Boldmono)
• Provide information about editing (e.g. Template:Work-in-progress)

Templates are stand-alone pages in the template namespace which can be transcluded (embedded) into other pages by bracketing the template name in curly brackets: {{ }} . Some will automatically categorize the article within which the template has been embedded for increased organization on the wiki.

For more information on templates, please visit the Getting Started article.

Finding Templates

In order to find templates:

• Go to the Templates category and begin to browse the different subcategories as listed in the informational list.
• Open up the "View source" tab on the top right of the wiki article and find any part of the page that has text within two opening and closing curly brackets: {{ }} . Then, navigate to https://gswiki.play.net/Template: where after the colon you place the text from within the curly brackets. For example: https://gswiki.play.net/Template:Boldmono.

Common Templates

Below are some of the most common templates used on our wiki. In situations where a help page exists, that page is linked instead of the template itself.

Repetitive Information

• Template:Material Gear Difficulty Modifier
• Template:Other Gear Difficulty Modifier
• Template:Script Gear Difficulty Modifier

Forms

• Template:Creative-work - player-written creative works such as short stories, poems, songs, and essays
• Help:Item scripts

Infoboxes

• Help:Creatures
• Help:Character pages#Character Template - character profile template
• Template:Merchants
• Help:Player System Manager
• Help:Storyline NPCs
• Template:Townnpc

Navigational Boxes or Information

• Template:TOCright
• Template:Top

Warning/Notices

• Template:Deprecated
• Template:Not-yet-implemented
• Template:Official-document - used by staff to denote something is an official document
• Template:Spoiler

Style

• Template:Boldmono - used to enclose verb syntax so that it is easily recognizable
• Template:Equation box
• Template:Log2 - used to wrap text that came from the game itself
• Template:Log3 - used to wrap NPC appearance
• Template:Mono - used to enclose mechanical formula and other numerical information that isn't long enough to need a separate template
• Template:Prettytable
• Template:RoomDescription
• Template:Saved-discord-post
• Template:Saved-post
• Template:Smallcaps - used in a lot of spell lists

Editing

• Template:Addmetext - adds a line of text for where more information needs added later
• Template:Disambiguous
• Template: Stub
• Template:Work-in-progress

See Also

• MediaWiki Template Help