NSWiki talk:Info boxes

Major changes to template layout

I took out the {{NSwiki_meta_toc}} toolbar from the this page, as it just screwed with the layout of this important page. I also added some headings to make new nation creation a lot more obvious. It make need some tweaking in terms of phrasing, but this is our front door. It needs to be shinier than it was. -- Frisbeeteria 03:02, 6 Oct 2004 (GMT)

Pudding 

so hey ... where'd you get that awesome Alliance Infobox format from?

Taken, as with many things, from Wikipedia and altered a bit to fit the needs of NationStates. --Goobergunch|? 16:25, 9 Oct 2004 (GMT)

Sandbox idea for Infoboxes

Personally, I'm not a fan of NS calculators, burt when I do my region, I'm not gonan be using the regio infobox for lack of a map link, so it doesn't really matter to me. Is there any controversy aroud this calc though? --Quintucket 01:35, 20 Oct 2004 (GMT)

Economy links... Could those be an optional thing, as is everything else in the infobox, or would that be mandatory. It's a very nice idea, I just don't personally prefer them, and logic assumes others would share my opinion as well. Optional'ism gives people choices, and the illusion of freedom duntchaknow. --Fodian Federa 00:34, 22 Oct 2004 (GMT)

The only way I can make it individual is to:

• add a confusing second Nation InfoBox

• add a confusing pair of Calculator Infoboxes that would have to be carefully positioned in order not to overlap the primary infoboxes

• remove them entirely and provide quasi-automated code for people to add their own

• let people find and add the calculators on their own

• manually create the equivalent of an infobox for any nation that wants one.

My inclination is to leave it, but I'll gladly accept consensus of the Wiki community. Right now, using the automatic variables detailed below, we're automatically generating links to NationStates Nations, NationStates Regions, the NSEconomy calculator for both, and the Pipian calculator. We've had markedly less mistakes from new users adding infoboxes to new pages, so I'm fairly certain we don't want to take out the NSlinks at least.

As for me, I obviously like the calculators, and made them small enough not to be obtrusive in the infobox. A lot of players still don't know about the very concept of calculators, and it satisfies an often-requested call for more information. So, let me have it ... → Frisbeeteria Θtalk 00:52, 22 Oct 2004 (GMT)

Technical details: The change was made to the Template:Infobox_Region, so implementation was global. It seems to work fine on all regions except the ones that have always been too big. We're using a variable we just located called {{PAGENAMEE}} (Info_boxes) which passes along the the name with spaces parsed into underscores. We already knew about variable {{PAGENAME}} (Info boxes) which passed the standard pagename with spaces, but we knew that wouldn't work on the NSEconomy calculator. We're using the same paired variables to auto-generate the Region and Nation URLs, and it works like a charm! → Frisbeeteria Θtalk