Board Thread:Announcements/@comment-3542404-20160103161102

Given how painfully few people actually notice technical changes to the wiki until I actually point them out, I've decided to use announcements to highlight new changes. This is purely for alerting users to changes in templates, CSS and JS and not for ARPW politics, arguing or anything else of the like.

For those of you know are familiar with my coding style, I hate "dumb" templates. Typically these are templates which are broken by issues such as case-specific fields, misused noinlcude or includeonly tags or permanently appearing fields, even when they are not needed. Part of these fixes are designed to integrate user-created aesthetic choices into templates.


 * Faction Template
 * Template:Faction Page now supports |npcs= and |locations= as additional tabs, they are optional and hidden as standard.
 * banner= can be used to replace the text of a faction page name with an image instead (see Koh's Entropy).


 * Bird Page Template
 * Template:Bird Page V1, |charname has been changed to |name so that it's standardised with other character pages. Mass editing has been carried out with Zhu Li.
 * Bird Page V2 no longer exists as the |weapons= field has been integrated into V1 and made optional. Pages using V2 have been changed to V1 using Zhu Li.


 * Lissy Page Template
 * Template:LissyPageV1 has been updated with "smart" fields, so that fields in "Basics" and "Traits and trivia" are not mandatory (not every character has a favourite smell etc).


 * Orbit Page Template
 * Template:OrbitV1 also has a |banner= option, allowing the top field with the name to be altered (such as an image or accessory gifs) while maintaining the lower name field.


 * Location Template
 * Template:Location is slowly being rolled out and modified as needed, designed to standardise image width and text formats, with additional fields for subpages and tenants.


 * Icons
 * Template:Icons/SubIcon has been fixed so that all icons are 20px. 