User blog:Temporaryeditor78/videos, page headers and other Andromeda-driven updates on the wiki

as people may or may not know, we have been working behind the scenes with Fandom staff in anticipation for Mass Effect: Andromeda. here's the PSA on what's been happening, and your comments are actually solicited for research purposes.



videos
on selected andromeda topics you'll see some vids on top of the article (distinct from the video ads - turn off your adblocker if nothing's loading). normally the wiki doesn't allow videos due to quality issues, but these are the in-universe briefings or trailers, approved by the publisher, or Fandom's self-made intro videos. also they're hosted on a different section of fandom's servers (not here).

new front page
the front page hasn't been updated in forever, and i just did not have the time redesign it myself, so this is actually the first thing we requested collaboration on. shoutout to the dragon age wiki for the rip-off inspiration, and thanks to User:JoePlay for setting the devwork up and User:Pinkachu for setting everything up in the first place.

new page headers
coincidentally enough, new page headers were unveiled for testing when ME:A gets released in europe and elsewhere. feedback is definitely requested, so comment away below.

new navigation bar
it's time we archived the old and make way for the new, hence User:Teugene and i mashed random keys on our keyboards and laid out a preliminary grouping of links for the navigation bar. andromeda gets one heading to itself while the shepard trilogy items are all in one level 1 heading. subject to change as more and more people finish MEA.

portable infobox template migration
portable infoboxes have been around for quite a while, and again i never found the time to apply almost all of them on the wiki. User:FishTank converted most of the most-used templates to the new markup while Teugene provided some fine-tuning.