Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-25565811-20160205232141

Hello all wiki editors!

Are you also so lazy when it comes to typing, as I am? I noticed, that especially linking the Updates page is quite difficult, when it comes to the single chapters. So let me explain why I spent a few hours, to be lazy in the future:

Like it was
Linking to a special chapter looked like this:

First step
Nearly nobody did it. So my first thing was to add id's to each pagebreak before each paragraph on the updates page:  . Now the reference to the chapters got much easier:

Second step
This took me about 10 minutes, but, I was not quite satisfied, I wanted something more confortable. So, I made a small, but powerful template called  . Because I am not so trained in making them, it took me about 2 hours try-and-error (see history if you are interrested in what I did wrong). It contains some parser functions to check parameters.

This template takes one or two parameters like this: Hover over the links, to see where they link to.

Now, you might say, where is the advantage of this:
 * less typing
 * very flexible, we could easily or  or  Anduril.pngAnduril.png to make the link to the update page more prominent, just by changing the template, and all wiki pages would change accordingly, if they include the  template. I have no formatting included, but you can add it locally, like I did for the examples.
 * if we one day decide to rename the Updates page, we have only to change the link in the template and not every single wiki page.
 * easy links in info boxes (see below).

Disadvantages:
 * It took me some time to make it. No problem, I learned a lot.
 * You've got to use it. When you type  Updates  instead of   the page won't profit from possible format changes.

Info boxes
I added the use of the template to the info-box for blocks to test it out. Now, you've only to type

instead of

The infobox just inserts my template there. Text values stay unchanged, so old infobox use is not affected unless it is a number (or equation like 3+4). I've changed only this one infobox so far. If a lot of people think, that the template is useful, I could change all infoboxes accordingly.

Your opinion
Now, what do you think, shall we use it? 