Forum:New templates - What do you think

Hello guys,

My name is Technobliterator. You could say I'm a veteran when it comes to site maintenance, template skills, mass editing and layout design. However, I have a proposal of how I'd like to help you guys out.

New MediaWiki extension
I'm from two main wikis- SporeWiki and J&D Wiki- where I'm semi admin at, and admin at a couple others. Over there, I added a new extension, known as Semantic MediaWiki, and have built multiple templates around it. An example of what this extension can do is as follows:
 * Edit page with form
 * Summary: Edits the pages' infoboxes and/or other templates
 * Example: A simple example is here, but there's much more complex stuff
 * Improve site browsing
 * Summary: Does away with need of categories, and means you can simply add a property to a page and it'll search for all pages with that property... it's btter to see it in action so
 * Example: here's a complex one: Content database (just look at any creature page), that adds properties in the infobox

The extension isn't 100% necessary, but thing like adding properties to biotics weaponry etc sounds interesting to me. I could do the rest without this extension but yeah.

Infoboxes & Navboxes
Ok so there are relatively few infoboxes on this site, and the ones that exist aren't collapsible. I also have a method of making template creation incredibly easy. Here's a good example of what I can do: here for navboxes & infoboxes. I doubt we'll add navboxes tothe tp of pages, though. Another simple example: here.

Oh also, check this for a way to put the infobox in sidebars.

Comments
So, what do you guys think? As for all the work, I'll do it; it's pretty easy to do if anyone else wants to learnt too.--Technobliterator 09:59, May 15, 2011 (UTC)