Talk:Modding

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Contents 1 Oh no! 2 Nevermind That 3 Templates and Indentation 4 Zoinks! 5 Previous issue fixed - Shiny new template 6 Nice!

Oh no!

This page is listed as requiring urgent modification. What needs to be modified? --Onu 20:50, 18 December 2006 (CET)

Nevermind That

I've reclassified this article as a stub meaning it's just not finished, which technically applies to quite a few articles here.

At any rate, I don't think people should use the urgent attention template unless they take the time to elaborate on how to resolve the issue in question on the talk page.

--Rich 10:03, 21 December 2006 (CET)

Templates and Indentation

I'm not sure what's going on here but if you use a colon prior to a template call like this ...

:{{D3note|note=/base}}

... it completely fubars the page. This problem is present in both Firefox and IE. You can view it in action here ...

http://www.modwiki.net/w/index.php?title=Modding&oldid=7647

--Rich 02:29, 24 July 2007 (CEST)

Zoinks!

It's really strange, I can remember I viewed the page just after I added the indentation... And it still looked fine at that moment.

I'll have a look at what's causing this, but it seems the wikitext-parser is going nuts. For example, here is the resulting HTML code of the D3 note template:

<dl><dd><div>
<a href="/wiki/Image:D3square_25.png" class="image" title="Image:D3square_25.png"><img src="/w/images/2/23/D3square_25.png" alt="Image:D3square_25.png" width="25" height="25" longdesc="/wiki/Image:D3square_25.png" /></a><b>Note:</b> Doom 3 only:
</dd></dl>
<dl><dd><i>/base</i></dd></dl></div>

For some reason, it wraps the first line of the template in a <dl> and leaves the second line untouched. Maybe writing the template as one single line will fix this, I'll give it a try.

Thanks for fixing the page in the mean time. -Kamikazee 12:42, 24 July 2007 (CEST)

Previous issue fixed - Shiny new template

The last issue was a problem in the wiki-text parser as I suspected. Writing the template on one line "miraculously" fixed it.

Now some update: I can present a new contraption. It's a multi-game template:

{{Gamesnote|note=Test!|game1=D3|game2=D3ROE|game3=Q4|game4=Prey|game5=ETQW|game6=RTCW2}}

The syntax is quite long, but there isn't really a good way of shortening it other than doing away with named parameters. (Thus using the first for the note text and the others for game codes.)

It's your call if you want to keep it or not, and in what form you think it'll be the most useful. -Kamikazee 15:04, 26 July 2007 (CEST)

I thought I'd better give an example of the alternative syntax:

{{Gamesnote| Test! |D3|D3ROE|Q4|Prey|ETQW|RTCW2}}

You lose the note parameter, but it sure is a lot easier to write... -Kamikazee 23:03, 26 July 2007 (CEST)

Nice!

I think it's beautiful, I don't see any problems with the syntax, seems perfectly reasonable to me. Good work! --iceheart 04:37, 27 July 2007 (CEST)