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Project Templates
Project Information
Type	Maintenance
Hexcode	#B2BEB5
Senior Editor(s)	Deadfire
Area(s)	Templates & Automation
Discord	Sarna Discord Community
Project Resources
Related Projects	BattleTechWiki:Project Cleanup

Description

This WikiProject was formed to better manage the BattleTechWiki's myriad templates. This page contains their many useful suggestions, and it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other editors. If you would like to help, please inquire on the project's talk page and see the to-do list.

Goals

The main goal of this WikiProject is:

To help manage the template namespace of the BattleTechWiki.

Scope

Conducting efforts to better organize, document and display all templates in the template namespace, including: navigation templates, infobox templates, inline templates, image copyright tags and much more.
Solving specific templates issues, such as standardisation of content and categorization.
Improving the general documentation on how to create and use templates, in addition to improving the documentation pages of the individual templates.
Clean-up of the unused, unneeded and/or redundant templates.
Providing help and guidance in creating, updating, correcting and testing templates.
Improving template accessibility

Related WikiProjects

Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

Deadfire (talk) (Project lead and mentor)

Open Tasks

Check the tracking category Category:Pages with template loops (13)
Check the tracking category Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls (11)
Filling in the BattleTechWiki:Template index, using the below as a guide
Continuation of importing needed Wikipedia templates and Modules. (with the majority of those that are needed can be seen here Special:Wantedpages)
Doing once over of Template Documentation subpages
- Making sure all links that need to be directed to Wikipedia are (using the 'w:' in their links).
- Improve wording as much as can be done.
- Modify examples to match our use cases.
- Remove technical wordage that wouldn't be useful to our users.
- {{Infobox}}
- {{S-start}}
- {{External_media}}
Taking a look at what we currently have here: Category:Documentation see also templates
- Reviewing, modifying and export any list templates in that category
- Checking if there are any other useful list templates needed by us on on Wikipedia's version of the same
- {{Quicktemplates}}
- {{Table cell templates}}
- {{Xt/see also}}
Uploading of svg file images for use on templates
- It has been recommended that we use Material Design Icons
- Attempt to use the most "liked" icons, referencing what Wikipedia is using for it
Requested Template imports:
- w:Template:Tree list
Requested Template changes
- {{Large category TOC}} As per request from User:Dmon, increase the threshold of where this kicks in to something like 3000 as the simple starting letter is sufficient most of the time at 1200.

Featured Content

Internal-linking templates for the "See also" sections or at the bottom of template documentation

Most of the example boxes you see here are in Category:Documentation see also templates

Help templates

Images
[[File: \| thumb \| upright \| right \| alt= \| caption ]]

Cite web
<ref>{{cite web \|url= \|title= \|author= \|date= \|website= \|publisher= \|access-date= }}</ref>

Cite book (short)
<ref>{{cite book \|last= \|first= \|author-link= \|title= \|publisher= \|series= \|year= \|doi= \|isbn= }}</ref>

Cite book (extended)

<ref>{{cite book
 |last1       = 
 |first1      = 
 |last2       = 
 |first2      = 
 |author-link = 
 |coauthors   = 
 |editor      = 
 |title       = 
 |trans-title = 
 |url         = 
 |access-date = 
 |edition     = 
 |series      = 
 |volume      = 
 |date        = 
 |year        = 
 |publisher   = 
 |location    = 
 |isbn        = 
 |doi         = 
 |page        = 
 |pages       = 
 |chapter     = 
}}</ref>

Metric conversions

Single input:

{{convert|original_value|original_unit|conversion_unit|abbr=on}}

Range of values:

{{convert|orig_val1|range|orig_val2|original_unit|conversion_unit|abbr=on}}

Examples:

{{convert|60|and|170|kg|lb|abbr=on}}
{{convert|18|°C|°F}}
{{convert|3.21|kg|lb}}

Variables

Code	Effect
{{CURRENTWEEK}}	21
{{CURRENTDOW}}	4
{{CURRENTMONTH}}	05
{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}	May
{{CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN}}	May
{{CURRENTDAY}}	23
{{CURRENTDAYNAME}}	Thursday
{{CURRENTYEAR}}	2024
{{CURRENTTIME}}	19:30
{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}	55,574
{{NUMBEROFPAGES}}	134,760
{{NUMBEROFUSERS}}	13,832
{{PAGENAME}}	Project Templates
{{NAMESPACE}}	BattleTechWiki
{{REVISIONID}}	1006833
{{REVISIONUSER}}	Deadfire
{{localurl:pagename}}	/wiki/Pagename
{{localurl:Wikipedia:Sandbox\|action=edit}}	/wiki/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Sandbox&action=edit
{{fullurl:pagename}}	https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Pagename
{{fullurl:pagename\|query_string}}	https://www.sarna.net/wiki/index.php?title=Pagename&query_string
{{SERVER}}	https://www.sarna.net
{{ns:index}} e.g. '{{ns:1}}'	fullname of namespace e.g 'Talk'
{{SITENAME}}	BattleTechWiki

Recalling named reference
<ref name="NAMEOFREF" />

Quotes
{{blockquote \|text= \|sign= }}

Blockquotes
<blockquote> <p>QUOTED PARAGRAPH</p> <p>NAME, SOURCE, REFERENCE</p> </blockquote>

About
(This page is about USE1. For other uses, see About (disambiguation).) {{About\|USE1}}
(This page is about USE1. For other uses, see PAGE2.) {{About\|USE1\|\|PAGE2}}
(This page is about USE1. For USE2, see PAGE2.) {{About\|USE1\|USE2\|PAGE2}}
(This page is about USE1. For USE2, see PAGE2. For USE3, see PAGE3. For USE4, see PAGE4. For USE5, see PAGE5.) {{About\|USE1\|USE2\|PAGE2\|USE3\|PAGE3\|USE4\|PAGE4\|USE5\|PAGE5}}

Tables (borderless)
{\| \|- ! scope="col" \|COLUMN1 ! scope="col" \|COLUMN2 \|- \|ROW1 \|ROW1/COL2 \|- \|ROW2 \|ROW2/COL2 \|}

Tables (wikitable)
{\| class="wikitable" \|- ! scope="col" \|COLUMN1 ! scope="col" \|COLUMN2 \|- \|ROW1 \|ROW1/COL2 \|- \|ROW2 \|ROW2/COL2 \|}

Collapsible tables (Default: collapsed)
{\| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;margin:0px;" \|- ! style="width:20em;" \|COLUMN1 ! style="width:20em;" \|COLUMN2 \|- \|ROW1 \|ROW1/COL2 \|- \|ROW2 \|ROW2/COL2 \|- \|}

Columns
{{col-begin\|width=100%}} {{col-break\|width=}} {{col-end}}

Interwiki links

Wiki	Shortcut
Wikimedia Commons	[[commons:]]
Wikipedia	[[w:]]
Wiktionary	[[wikt:]]
Wikibooks	[[b:]]
Wikisource	[[s:]]
Wikispecies	[[species:]]
Metawiki	[[m:]]
MediaWiki	[[mw:]]

Special Pages

Templates

Others to check

Extensions

Work with the following Mediawiki extensions:
- Extension:TemplateStyles (an extension that allows to specify that a stylesheet should be loaded from a wiki page, allowing the template to have custom styles without having to modify the site's main CSS file).
- Extension:TemplateData (an extension that provides the information about templates).
- Extension:TemplateWizard (an extension that adds a popup dialog box for adding template code to wikitext).
- Extension:WikiEditor (an extension that provides the editing toolbar).
- Extension: Page Forms (an extension allows you to have forms for creating and editing pages on your wiki, as well as for querying data, all without any programming).

@@ Line 47: / Line 47: @@
 ==Open Tasks==
-* Continuation of importing needed [[w:Wikipedia:Template index|Wikipedia templates]] and Modules
+* Check the tracking category {{clc|Category:Pages with template loops}}
+* Check the tracking category {{clc|Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls}}
+* Filling in the [[BattleTechWiki:Template index]], using the below as a guide
+* Continuation of importing needed [[w:Wikipedia:Template index|Wikipedia templates]] and Modules. (with the majority of those that are needed can be seen here [[Special:Wantedpages]])
 * Doing once over of Template Documentation subpages
 **Making sure all links that need to be directed to Wikipedia are (using the 'w:' in their links).
@@ Line 53: / Line 56: @@
 **Modify examples to match our use cases.
 **Remove technical wordage that wouldn't be useful to our users.
-* Filling in the [[BattleTechWiki:Template index]], using the below as a guide
+** {{tl|Infobox}}
+** {{tl|S-start}}
+** {{tl|External_media}}
 * Taking a look at what we currently have here: {{cl|Documentation see also templates}}
 ** Reviewing, modifying and export any list templates in that category
 ** Checking if there are any other useful list templates needed by us on [[w:Category:Documentation see also templates|on Wikipedia's version of the same]]
+** {{tl|Quicktemplates}}
+** {{tl|Table cell templates}}
+** {{tl|Xt/see also}}
 * Uploading of svg file images for use on templates
 **It has been recommended that we use [https://icon-sets.iconify.design/mdi/ Material Design Icons]
-**Attempt to use the most "like" icon, referencing what Wikipedia is using for it
+**Attempt to use the most "liked" icons, referencing what Wikipedia is using for it
-* Create '''real''' pages of the categories listed here {{cl|System Related Pages}}
+* Requested Template imports:
+** [[w:Template:Tree list]]
+* Requested Template changes
+** {{tl|Large category TOC}} As per request from [[User:Dmon]], increase the threshold of where this kicks in to something like 3000 as the simple starting letter is sufficient most of the time at 1200.
 == Featured Content==

v t e BattleTechWiki templates
Main namespace	General Cleanup Verifiability and sources Disputes Hatnotes Infoboxes Links External link templates Lists Section Sources of articles Quick reference Standard boxes
Other namespaces	Authoritative Compact TOC BattleTechWiki Category File Talk Template User Userboxes User talk
All namespaces	Deletion Formatting Maintenance Merging Moving Navigation Redirect pages Functional index Splitting
Navboxes of templates	Button Category header Citation and verifiability Citation Style Hatnotes Inline cleanup Notice and warnings Protection Quotation Semantics String-handling Superscript and subscript-related Unicode Userboxes Userspace linking
Inline images	Icons Discussion icons Comment icons
Related topics	Template documentation Templates used by WikiProjects Template help Template namespace
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Category Projects	BattleMechs • Characters • Corporations • Dynastic Houses • Factions • Ground Units • Military Commands • Planets • Spacecraft • Systems
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Description

Goals

Scope

Related WikiProjects

Child projects

Participants

Open Tasks

Featured Content

Internal-linking templates for the "See also" sections or at the bottom of template documentation

Help templates

Special Pages

Templates

Others to check

Extensions

BattleTechWiki

Search

Editing BTW

Background

Current Game Systems

Admin Pages

Tools