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This template should help organize the book texts, and make them more accessable, while maintaining the original book formatting.
There should not be any need to place wikilinks in the book text... they should go in the list of "related articles", for quick and easy reference.
There is also a place to type a short blurb about the book content, allowing users to easily see if the book contains what they are looking for (without reading the whole book).
I also plan to make a list template for referencing the book pages easily, removing clutter from the library pages, making them easier to read.
-- Whitelaces † Talk † χρισtoς αnεσtη, αληθως αnεσtη -- 13:41, 30 October 2006 (PST)
I made some changes, to prevent mass duplicates of books, now whenever a book already exists, and is already on the wiki with a different cover, instead of changing the cover, use
| booktype = (original) | booktype2 = duplicate #1 | booktype3 = duplicate #2and so on, the images will appear next to each other, which is a lot better than a bunch of seperate pages.
I also added "Notes" parameter, you can discuss, for example quest books, or the location if there's duplicates ("Brown thin book found at X")
All book pages are bugged for me, the monaco sidebar moves up to the middle of the page and thus hides the content of it. I try if it has something to do with DM's last edit, otherwise, could someone more technical look at it?
^^ º Bennie º ¤ Talk ¤ º Admins º ^^ 20:13, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
I replaced all the #ifeq's with #if, and changed some if into #ifeq. I also updated how a new page should be created, so all the Infoboxes are the same. It should also allow DPL usage (if needed at a later point).
And a question, would you guys prefer
- |returnbook = somepage
- |returnbook2 = somepage2
- |returnbook3 = somepage3
- |returnbook4 = somepage4
or rather
- |returnbook = somepage, somepage2, somepage3, somepage4?
It's both possible, if you want it changed, let me know (usage of #explode). I could make it without breaking any of the current book pages.
And a last note, maybe the Infobox should be protected too, like all the others.
--Temahk (Talk • Contribs) 20:31, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for updating the code. I prefer the first option, it's like all other templates on this wiki are built. I think it isn't necessary to protect pages before they get vandalized. When such a thing happens we can just revert and protect it. Protecting a lot of pages causes people to contribute less (at least, that's what the wikia staff says :P).
^^ º Bennie º ¤ Talk ¤ º Admins º ^^ 20:35, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
I forgot to add the end brackets, but it should work with that. The first few books i worked on are correct, but the last few are not. There is no real difference in their code, so i am not certain if it has to do with your revision, Temahk. Also thanks for the Notepad++ recommendation, i will check it out. --DM ><((°> Contribs <°))>< talk to me 20:42, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
I just noticed that too, let me check..
-edit- I forgot a pipe character twice, fixed now :) --Temahk (Talk • Contribs) 20:43, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Look at the books How to Create Spellbooks (Book) and What Runes are Made Of (Book). The first does not show the returnpage2 and 3, while the second does. they both have the same template. --DM ><((°> Contribs <°))>< talk to me 20:57, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
They both do, in Preview mode at least. The first needed a null-edit, it shows now.
--Temahk (Talk • Contribs) 21:30, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Regarding the protect statement: I don't think it's necessary. If you take a look at the edit history you'd see the page hasn't been a target of vandalism once. People don't care for books nearly as much as say, creatures or items.. But of course if the template won't need to be edited, prevention from future vandalism won't hurt..
Edit: Just realized Bennie said the exact thing, oh well.. -- Sixorish 22:50, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Bug? Edit
Can someone help me out, please? I'm having some sort of problem regarding that page: Huv Stollan Match Stuf (Book) (which I created) and that one Rookgaard's Single Books. For some reason I can't link the "book" to the Single Book's page. It always display that: Untitled (Book). Anyone know what's going on and why can't that work?
Aaron Fisher 11:44, April 16, 2011 (UTC)
Nevermind, I just forgot to add the pagename. >_>
Aaron Fisher 13:09, April 16, 2011 (UTC)
DPL Edit
I am running a bot to change all the calls to this template to use |List=, to support DPL.
Normally I don't like overuse of DPL but I think a lot of the new books are not being listed on any list page (I guess because they cannot be categorized easily so most would fall under Single Books ...) -- Sixorish (talk) 05:40, August 25, 2012 (UTC)
Huh?
The pages have all been converted, yes, DPL will work with them. Not sure what you mean by "DPL bot". -- Sixorish (talk) 22:25, August 28, 2012 (UTC)
http://tibia.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/SixBot It annoys me I don't see him in recent changes by default. Sixorish, could you message somewhere everytime you run the bot, just so we know what's going on? Maybe on the bot's user page or on Talk:Administrator Team. -- Bennie (talk ~ fellows) 07:51, August 29, 2012 (UTC)
I posted here... -- Sixorish (talk) 07:56, August 29, 2012 (UTC)
- An actual bot, right. There's a way of setting up content changes within a wiki using DPL with regular expressions. I tried it, never worked on this wiki. I mixed to two up .
Craggles ಠ_ಠ Talk ∙ Contribs 09:29, August 30, 2012 (UTC)
Yes an actual bot. Not a generic wikibot, I had problems with them due to the directory api.php was located in, I figured it would take less effort to write my own bot.
I didn't know you could do that with DPL, where have you tested it? Or where did you hear about it? -- Sixorish (talk) 10:16, August 30, 2012 (UTC)
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