Help:Documentation/boilerplate-defined
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What is the difference between Boilerplate pages and /doc pages?
- For example, Boilerplate:Creature vs Template:Creature/doc - are boilerplates for the 'create article' and docs just for the template itself?
Documentation parts
- Page construction is processed by two major components which are inter-related and integrated:
- The MediaWiki "Create Article" extension and Templates.
- These are constructed of the following inter-related and integrated parts
- Related: MediaWiki:Common.css
MediaWiki:Createarticle
- preload = Template: <name>/Preload
- editintro = Boilerplate: <name>
- preload = the name of the template in the LotroWiki namespace that holds the text you wish to preload in the newly created article page
- editintro = the name of the template in the LotroWiki namespace that holds the instructions you wish to have displayed above the article creation input box the newly created article page.
- Note: This information will disappear when the page is either "previewed" or "saved."
- Pages in Category: Article Creation contain "Create Article" templates utilizing The MediaWiki "Create Article" extension.
- Each page in this category should have a matching page in Category:Boilerplates.
- Each page in this category should have a matching page in Category: Template Preloads.
- Create new character - Player Characters
- Create new creature - Creatures
- Create new deed - Deed
- Create new effect - Effects
- Create new item - Items
- Create new item set - Item Sets
- Create new kinship - Kinships
- Create new legacy - Legacies
- Create new location - Locations - Points to the 7 boilerplates for Locations
- Create new NPC - NPCs
- Create new quest - Quests
- Create new recipe - Recipes
- Boilerplate:Reputation Faction - Points to the boilerplate
- Create new skill - Skills
- Create new title - Titles
- Create new trait - Traits
Template
- Template <name>
- Template <name>/doc -- Category: Template Documentation
- Template <name>/preload -- Category: Template Preloads
Boilerplate
- Pages in Category:Boilerplates contain individual Boilerplates and related information for Editors.
- Most pages here will have a corresponding entry in Category:Article Creation.
- Boilerplates should transclude the corresponding Template <name>/doc file and normally, a Template <name>/Preload file.
IMPORTANT: Boilerplates easily become out of sync with Templates and their /doc and /Preload files
- Boilerplates - Documentation
- Boilerplate:Creature - Creatures
- Boilerplate:Deed - Deeds
- Boilerplate:Effect - Effects
- Boilerplate:Item - Item
- Boilerplate:Item Set - Item Sets
- Boilerplate:Kinship - Kinship
- Boilerplate:Legacy - Legacy
- Location Boilerplates -- No individual "Create Article" exists
- Boilerplate:NPC - NPC
- Boilerplate:Player Character - Player Character
- Boilerplate:Quest - Quest
- Boilerplate:Recipe - Recipe
- Boilerplate:Reputation Faction - Reputation Faction
- Boilerplate:Skill - Skill
- Boilerplate:Title - Title
- Boilerplate:Trait - Trait
- Boilerplates are meant as guides for the Editor to be used as they create an article; supplying basic information and formatting for the page.
- For the convenience of our Editors and to promote a uniform look and feel on LOTRO Wiki we have Create new <article-type> tools to be used. These tools cover the most common articles being added, and greatly simplify, standardize and speed-up the creation process.
- These "Article Creation Tools" ask for the name of the article to be created. The tool then loads an appropriate standard Template into the Editing Space to be filled out by the Editor with information appropriate for that article. Here you complete the details for the Template, some fields are mandatory, others are optional, and some should be left as-is.
- Completing that template will normally automatically insert your article into the appropriate Wiki-categories. (This feature is not complete in all templates.)
- When the Create Article tool is first used, in addition to the contents of the Editing Space, it also displays a guide to the formatting of that page and indicates the kind of information appropriate to that article in the space above the Editing Space, serving as help-text and for easy copy/pasting. That information is NOT included as part of the article and is "lost" as soon as you click preview or save..
- However, the corresponding Boilerplate duplicates that content included in the page AND the content displayed as a guide to formatting.
- Thus you can open the corresponding Boilerplate (found on the Help page) in another tab or window of your browser for quick and easy reference while creating an article.
- You can then use the Boilerplate to copy and paste appropriate sections into articles while editing.
- The Create new <article-type> feature allows you to create pages without having to do most of this copy pasting yourself. From this feature you obtain the seed for a new article, a Boilerplate then provides additional sections with pre-determined formatting and the additional information desired.
- As Boilerplates are quite generalized, copy and paste only those sections you need.
- In short, Boilerplates provide:
- An explanation of the parameters in the Template being used
- An overview of the standard formatting for the entire page
- Information sections with pre-determined formatting.
- Often a boilerplate contains a clean-copy and a commented copy of what is preloaded onto new articles.
Boilerplates with corresponding "Create Article" Tools Creature Kinship Quest Deed Legacy Recipe Effect Location Skill Item NPC Title Item Sets Player Character Trait
- Definition: NPC -- Combat and non-combat NPCs (defeat-only is a Creature)
- Definition: Creature -- Creatures and MOBs (never acting as NPC)
- Location boilerplates, see Create new location
- Other boilerplates
