Guides/Page Layout Game

Guide to Easy Editing

This is a first draft of the guide to "easy editing".

Known issues and questions to editors:

• Can be up to four separate templates needed depending on the page. Is that ok?
• Templates have to keep all parameters, and kept blank if not used. Confusing?

Please give feedback in Discord #wiki-spoilers.

Page Layout

Try to keep the layout the same for each page. Here's a suggestion:

• Infobox
• Intro
• Description
• statistics template
• Sockets and Storage template
• Recipe & Produced by template
• Tips
• Category template
• Magic words

Headers

Pages are separated by ===== Headers =====.
Add the following headers if you need them:

===== Description =====

===== Tips =====

• Statistics, Sockets and Storage, Recipe & Produced by headers are added automatically if you use the templates below.

Templates

Four templates...

• Statistics, Sockets and Storage, and 'Recipe & Produced by are optional depending on the page.
• Category is needed if you want a navbox E.g.

Statistics

If you want to add item stats, you can do so by copying the following:

Todo: paste code

Sockets and Storage

Todo: everything

Recipe/Produced by

If you want to add a recipe, you can do so by copying the following:

• Copy and paste after stats. Insert names and numbers
• You must include all the parameters. If there's only 1/2/3 ingredients or production, leave the rest blank.

{{Recipe_Production
|name =
|ingredient1 =
|amount1 =
|ingredient2 = 
|amount2 = 
|ingredient3 = 
|amount3 = 
|ingredient4 = 
|amount4 = 
|produced-by1 =
|time1 =
|produced-by2 = 
|time2 = 
}} 

Category

This will add the Navbox and create a category which is important if you want your new page to be added the the navbox automatically. (Eventually)

• Copy and paste this at the bottom of the page
• If you only want to use one parameter, leave the others blank.

{{Category
|race =
|item-type =
|material-type =
|entity-type =
|unit-type =
}}

The following parameters are used:

• race = Aliens / Bugs / Humans / Robots
• item-type = Components / Resources / Materials / Research / Packages
• material-type = Simple / Advanced / High-tech
• entity-type = Building / Unit
• unit-type = Alien / Bug / Human / Bot / Space

Examples:

Page for Metal Ore	Page for Scout
{{Category |race = |item-type = Resources |material-type = |entity-type = |unit-type = }}	{{Category |race = Robots |item-type = |entity-type = Unit |unit-type = Bot }}

Magic words

I only know about and use two. You can put them anywhere in the page on their own line.

Please let me know other useful ones on the Discord.

__NOTOC__

• A table of contents is Added to pages with four or more headers, use NOTOC with two underscores either side to disable the TOC.

__NOEDITSECTION__

• Use this to disable the edit icon next to all the headers. Recommended.