User:Magill/Project-prototypes

• This is a major issue I've been hashing on since I started editing !!! Help; Boilerplate; Template/doc pages ALL need work. Some more than others. The Quest Boilerplate is one I started working on over a year ago... part of the issue is that it is 4 parts --

I just looked at the major revision I did back in September of 2011 User:Magill/Archive-Boilerplate-quest... and note that a lot of stuff has been added/changed since then!

Parts of the quest creation process

• Create new quest -- This is the tool to be used to create a new Quest article.

• preload= Template: Infobox Quests/Preload -- This is the body of the Quest infobox loaded into the editing section of a new Quest article by Create new quest.
• editintro= Boilerplate:Quest -- This is the instruction text displayed by Create new quest describing the parameters used when creating a Quest article.

NOTE: if, when a name is typed into the field of "Create new quest" and you click, "Create new qust" button, nothing happens, i.e. a blank page is displayed, then the name of the quest you typed in is already in use. This was a bug that we just fixed yesterday!!

• Template: Infobox Quests -- this actually processes the prototypes-parameters
• Template: Infobox Quests/doc -- This is transcluded into Template: Infobox Quests

In reality, the Template should always transclude the matching Template/doc and Preload files, which should also always be transcluded into the Boilerplate page! They rarely are.

Where <Template> is the project being worked upon.

• The "<Template>" is documented by the "<Template>/doc" file
• The "<Template>/doc" file is transcluded into the "<Template>" file. This file actually processes the infobox example:
• The "<Template>/doc" file is transcluded into the "<Template>/Preload" file.
• The "<Template>/doc" file is transcluded into the "Boilerplate:<Template>" file.

Working Pages

Basic structure of pages -- copy these to new "project-<name>" pages

• User: Magill/Project-prototypes-cleanup/Create new quest --- change pointers to the appropriate files
• User: Magill/Project-prototypes-cleanup/boilerplate-quest - transclude doc
• User: Magill/Project-prototypes-cleanup/template quest - transclude doc
• User: Magill/Project-prototypes-cleanup/Preload - transclude doc
• User: Magill/Project-prototypes-cleanup/doc -- all documentation goes here.