Wiki Templates
Related topics: Page Templates, Wiki Markup Reference
List of wiki templates that are used in formatting areas/items that recur frequently across different pages. Some templates are simple and do not require any parameters while others do. A more complete description is given below.
List of Templates
More information for each template can be found by clicking on the template name.
- {{Creature Class}} - Icon image and link to a creature class.
Table of Contents
- {{LeftToC}} - Table of contents appears on left side with text wrapping along the right.
- {{RightToC}} - Table of contents appears on right side with text wrapping along the left.
- {{Quest Links}} - Placed in quest summary header provides ToC like links to the major sections of a quest writeup.
- {{Exemplar ToC}} - Floats an exemplar image and Table of Contents on the right (text will wrap on the left).
- {{Related}} - List of related topics, replaces "See also" links. For one to twenty links.
- {{Patch Navigation Links}} - Group of links that navigates to next, previous, and all patches.
- {{Announcements Navigation Links}} - Group of links that navigate to next, previous, and all announcements.
- {{Patch Announcements Links}} - Formats links to current, original, and archived pages.
Quotations
- {{Quotation}} - General purpose quotation.
- {{Turbine Developer}} - Quote block for a Turbine Developer comment.
Archive of Internet Article
- {{Turbine 2008}} - Archived internet articles from Turbine's website following the redesign in August 2008.
- {{Turbine 2005}} - Archived internet articles from Turbine's website between the redesign in August 2005 and August 2008.
- {{Turbine 2003}} - Archived internet articles from Turbine's new website in 2003 and the redesign in August 2005.
- {{Microsoft Games}} - Archived internet articles from Microsoft Games.
- {{Microsoft Zone}} - Archived internet articles from the Microsoft Zone.
- {{Zogblaster}} - Archived internet articles from Turbine's website zogblaster.com.
Parameters
A parameter, or argument, is information that the template needs to complete its job. If a parameter is required, you must include it, if it is optional you can omit it if it doesn't apply. For example if someone gives you a to do list, the purpose of the list is clear, you are supposed to do the items on the list. But for any given list, the items will differ. A template that requires parameters is the same idea. Since a to do list can be very long, the template might include 30 optional parameters, meaning you could have a list from zero to thirty items long. Parameters are separated with single pipes ( | ). Here's an example of formatting a to do list with three items using the fictional ToDoList template:
{{ToDoList|Buy milk.|Return videos.|Wash car.}}
How the list is formatted will depend on exactly how the actual template is setup, but here is one possibility:
To Do List
- Buy milk.
- Return videos.
- Wash car.