Difference between revisions of "Template talk:Hgame"

Revision as of 17:15, 24 March 2014

WTF

I peeked at the template and noticed multiple duplications of this code: {{#ifeq: {{{game|{{#titleparts: {{FULLPAGENAME}}|1}}}}}|{{#titleparts: {{FULLPAGENAME}}|1}}|{{#titleparts: {{FULLPAGENAME}}|1}}|{{{game}}}}}

The same with better readability

{{#ifeq: {{{game|{{#titleparts: {{FULLPAGENAME}}|1}}}}}
       | {{#titleparts: {{FULLPAGENAME}}|1}}
       | {{#titleparts: {{FULLPAGENAME}}|1}}
       | {{{game}}}
}}

So, it checks if the value of game is equal to the first part of fullpagename.

• if yes, it prints the first part of fullpagename
• if no, it prints the value of game

It prints a string equal to game in any case. I'm going to poke around the template a bit to get a better idea what's going on. - Loliturma (talk) 09:11, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

The reason for that is to enable the template to guess it's game in a subpaged structure, so the game= parameter is no longer needed when using subpages - without breaking compatibility with the "classic" page structure of older games. The target is to reduce the number of parameters to the template and make the template more "smart". --hmoeller ^{[ Talk - Contribs ]} 10:33, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Ahhh, now I get the idea. However, the code did not do that: It doesn't work if the game parameter is unspecified. I guess the equal / not equal options were accidentally set backwards? Anyways, it could be simplified to {{#if:{{{game|}}}|{{{game}}}|{{#titleparts:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|1}}}}

human-readable version

{{#if: {{{game|}}}
  | {{{game}}}
  | {{#titleparts: {{FULLPAGENAME}}|1}}
}}

That would print game's value if it is specified, otherwise it will print the first part of fullpagename. Is that what it should do? - Loliturma (talk) 11:28, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Forgot to mention: in case you need to duplicate a parserfunction in multiple places, it might be a good idea to place it into a template of its own, (eg. {{GetGameName}} or something) to simplify things. - Loliturma (talk) 11:39, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

In fact, a simple {{{game|{{#titleparts: {{FULLPAGENAME}}|1}}}}} should do the trick. I'll check it on my testwiki. For the human-readable versions: those may mess with the spacing of e.g. lists, so beware --hmoeller ^{[ Talk - Contribs ]} 11:47, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Good point! I am not familiar with magic words inside parserfunctions inside parameter default values, but it definitely should work. Also, all normal whitespaces inside parserfunctions are ignored unless they're part of input/output strings.

That's {{
              
     #if:            
            
                   string                
          
             
       
               |                     true                         |           false                    
       
         
               }}.

Even something silly like this would print "That's true." so there's no need worry about breaking page formatting with parserfunctions! Just check where they begin/end. - Loliturma (talk) 16:09, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Renaming the navigation

Can't we make a new template for navigation? At the moment we use Template:{{{game}}}} for the navigation contents, but my Idea is to use a new template Template:{{{game}}}Nav for the links. That would allow us to use the template with the game name e.g. @HomeMate as it was intended: We can put Template:Hgame with its parameters and even additional modivications if required on Template:*game* and use it on the game pages. I think this would be more simple then it is now. --trololove (talk) 11:51, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Indeed that would make it much easier for other contributors to add game pages. I'd say we use

{{#ifexist: Template:{{{game|{{#titleparts:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|1}}}}}Nav 
                   | {{{game|{{#titleparts:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|1}}}}}Nav 
                   | {{{game|{{#titleparts:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|1}}}}} 
}}

so the template will pick {{{game}}}Nav if it exist, {{{game}}} if not. --hmoeller ^{[ Talk - Contribs ]} 12:48, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Ok, I'll add the code --trololove (talk) 15:06, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Well, after multiple attempts I finally managed to insert your code WITHOUT braking the template :) --trololove (talk) 16:00, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Sorry if any of my changes made the template source harder to understand, I had the opposite intention. I'll stop messing with it. - Loliturma (talk) 16:15, 24 March 2014 (UTC)