Hey,
I’m making a wiki using Media Wiki and I’d like to add this kind of board in it:
The thing is I don’t know what plugin I should use. If somebody knows how to do that, any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
create a table
I know, the problem is that the table is not showing. There is a text saying “Model:Infobox video game” instead of my table.
“model”?
you know how to use templates?
Apparently no.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Template
Templates are like functions. You call them by name and you pass them variables. It is up to the template to format and display the variables correctly. So it is up to you to make the template.
This is what I would like to have:
This is what I have:
That’s my problem.
well, those are plugins. But they wont make that table for you. That table is created using built in wiki functions.
btw, how to get LaTeX to work in windows?
I see but then what do I have to do to insert a table? When I use a template it doesn’t work.
templates don’t do anything on there own. I recommend reading at least the intro to the page that I linked above. What happens is you call a template from another page and it includes it.
I’ll start from square one.
In the purest sense a template just displays its contents when included.
Example:
Page one includes the template hello by using the code {{hello}}
the page Template:hello contains the text “Hello world”
now when you visit page one you see the text Hello world.
But templates can be used for much more complicated things.
Example2:
Page one includes the template hello2 by using the code {{hello|mars}}
the page Template:hello contains the text “Hello{{{1}}}”
when the template is called it replaces {{{1}}} with the first un-titled variable (in this case mars)
now when you visit page one you see the text Hello mars.
How with that in mind you can now create a template with complex formating and just insert the text into by just calling it.
Just letting you know that ALL of this information is available in the Wikipedia Help articles
EDIT:including things like tables
I must be very stupid but I absolutely can’t create an infobox.
Let’s admit I’d like to create THIS table, I copy/paste the text from the original wikipedia article in a page of my wiki.
{{Infobox VG
|title= Black Mesa
|image= [[Image:black-mesa-logo.png|256px]]
|caption=
|developer= Black Mesa team
|designer=
|series= ''[[Half-Life (series)|Half-Life]]''
|engine= [[Source engine|Source]]
|released= TBA<ref>{{cite web |last= |first= |title= Black Mesa 2009 Update |work= Black Mesa: Community Forums |publisher= |url= [url]https://forums.blackmesasource.com/showthread.php?t=2416[/url] |date= 2009-12-07 |accessdate= 2009-12-07}}</ref>
|genre= [[First-person shooter]],<br>[[Action-adventure game]],<br>[[Science fiction]]
|modes= [[Single-player]], [[Multiplayer video game|Multiplayer]]
|ratings=
|platforms= [[Microsoft Windows]]
|media=
|requirements=
|input= [[Keyboard (computing)|Keyboard]] and [[Mouse (computing)|mouse]]
}} Then, I got, below the page editing area: “Template:Infobox VG”.
The question is: what do I need to write in this template page in order to make the infobox appear in my wiki page as it appears in the original wikipedia article?
ok, now I got you. would first recommend installing a small plugin called Parser_function_extensions
This plugin will allow you to have conditional formatting within wiki code. [COLOR=‘DimGray’](it adds things like, if statements and in line algebra)
The reson I recommend it is because say for under release date you dont type anything for black mesa. Instead of just having it say release date with nothing to the right of it it will just remove that category all together.
I’ll post some example for the template i a sec.
Thanks a lot! I’ll try this.
EDIT: Works perfectly. Thanks.
EDIT2: Isn’t there a pack I can download to have all the templates (the essentials)? Otherwise I’ve got to copy/paste every template on Wikipedia.