User:Helcostr/TestPage

The test pages are designed to demonstrate a new writing structure to the wiki. Read on to each header for more information.

Introduction Without Header

For any wikipedia page that has headers, there is usually a small blip at the beginning introducing the topic to the user. Here, the convention is as follows:

• 1 paragraph maximum
• Use Bold to highlight the first instance of the page in question

Here is a list of pages with this convention applied by me:

• Lottery
• Blackjack
• User:Helcostr/Finishing Hits
  • Weapon Category
    • Weapon

Page Explosion

While I love the coexistence of "Big Pages", this shouldn't be the first thing a user sees. Because of this, I have started exploding the thought of "Finishing Hits" and worked my way down to the individual Weapons themselves. If there is a big page comparison, it would be linked under the "See Also" portion of a page.

Item Population

Consequently of the previous action, there are plenty of redlinks now floating around the wiki. To solve this, I created a table of information that a bot can dynamically pull and a template set up by me to generate the pages:

• Weapon - This is an example of a human going through and filling in the information. This was my template for the rest of the weapon pages.
• Weapon (auto populated, manual change) - This is an example of a robot populating the information, and a human going through and cleaning it up.
• Weapon (auto populated, no human has seen this yet) - This is an example of a robot populating the information, and a human hasn't gone through to clean it up and add more detail.

This technique can also be used to search several pages and edit a small thing, like what I plan to do for the next one:

Depreciating Historical Notes

While I love these little tidbit of information, with the arrival of the more accurate "Patch Notes", the double "Notes" tag gets a bit redundant (Historical Notes, then Patch Notes). Plus, most users decide to add trivia like information into the Historical Notes. So it would be cool to migrate our current Historical Notes into Trivia, and add a patch notes section. This can be automated if we are going this route (simple find and replace).

EDIT: I have already gone thorough and replaced every instance of "Historical Notes" with "Trivia" based on a conversation with Harley See:

• User:Helcostr/Hand-to-hand
• User:Helcostr/Looting
• Lottery

Infobox Template

You might notice the lackluster existence of the current infobox, which sits sadly floating to the left. The reason for that is because CSS is missing from the page.

(This is an early version of the page)[1]

All color schemes and formats can be workshopped as needed, I just did a blatant copy paste from my other wiki site.

To see the pages dynamically, check out User CSS (or a similar extension, u can even use some kind of monkey to inject), and inject the CSS code

Extensions

With the creation of infoboxes and amboxes, it is more important now compared to before to grab the mediawiki Extension:ParserFunctions. With access to switch statements, and if statements, we can dynamically generate a weapon infobox that can serve both melee and guns (as and example) without the need to put "N/A":

• User:Helcostr/Hammer

Long TOCs

I just came from the Back to Basics page, and I noticed that there was no way to collapse the TOC. Could this be a newer feature of the MediaWiki that we don't have?

Closing Statement

This page will be continued as more angles are thought up. If you have any template questions, those can be answered separately (I have created a ton of templates).

For more examples and information, please visit User:Helcostr