Guide to Easy Editing

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

Potential 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.

Words: (Todo: explain words?)

Header
Template
Parameter
Navbox
Infobox
Category

Page Layout

Try to keep the layout of the game stuff the same for each page. Here's a suggestion for item pages:

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

Other pages:

...?

Infobox

Todo: todo

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

Todo: Need to add and talk about component stats

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

Statistics

Health Points	Visibility Range	Faction

Sockets and Storage

Internal		Storage

Sockets and Storage

Todo: everything.

Recipe/Produced by

If you want to add a recipe, you can do so by copying the {{Recipe_Production template below

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 to add when you finish making the page.

Examples

Please look at pages' edit code to see some examples While the site is getting set up, it's a bit of a mess so if you find a page that doesn't look like this guide, ignore it and find another.

A link to the Cub with the layout and recipes from this guide.