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How do you make the text span the width of the template thingy - my attempts have proven to merely set them to half size. So whats your secret? Craggles

You are probably entering the text inside "&lt;pre&gt;" tags. This will force it to ignore line breaks (one reason that I stole Template:Pre from wikipedia, to make the scrollbars when that happened).

I wanted to be able to enter book text and completely preserve the line breaks and spacing, so for some books, I used the pre tags to try to do this (until I take the time to find a way of matching the column width of books in-game automatically).

Basically, you need to just pass the text into the "text" parameter without the &lt;pre&gt; tags around it. When you do this, you need to replace all manual line breaks with &lt;br&gt; tags, or the formatting will be messed up.

Look at the source for Treasures of the Southern Isles (book) to see what I mean.... notice the line breaks.

-- Whitelaces &dagger; Talk &dagger; &chi;&rho;&iota;&sigma;to&sigmaf; &alpha;n&epsilon;&sigma;t&eta;, &alpha;&lambda;&eta;&theta;&omega;&sigmaf; &alpha;n&epsilon;&sigma;t&eta; -- 13:22, 31 October 2006 (PST)
 * See i did that but in a lazy way and jsut went to the end of the wiki line and pressed enter unless it was a short line or it had a fullstop, thus the effect I have.

Can you point out an example that I can look at?

-- Whitelaces &dagger; Talk &dagger; &chi;&rho;&iota;&sigma;to&sigmaf; &alpha;n&epsilon;&sigma;t&eta;, &alpha;&lambda;&eta;&theta;&omega;&sigmaf; &alpha;n&epsilon;&sigma;t&eta; -- 13:28, 31 October 2006 (PST)
 * I rectified all my "mistakes" last night so there's no need to frete.If you really really want to see them just check the page history of Monsters in Rookgaard 1 (book)

Craggles

Ah... now I see what you were talking about.

By the way, thanks for helping make those book pages.... there are lots of books to do this for.

-- Whitelaces &dagger; Talk &dagger; &chi;&rho;&iota;&sigma;to&sigmaf; &alpha;n&epsilon;&sigma;t&eta;, &alpha;&lambda;&eta;&theta;&omega;&sigmaf; &alpha;n&epsilon;&sigma;t&eta; -- 05:31, 2 November 2006 (PST)


 * Yeah well, I doubt i'll die any time soon so I should be here to help you til it's done. Also, Is it ok to give my own unique titles to books? I find comedy/serious titles to be more informative than untitled or unknown. Craggles



About book titles, I think that the "title" should be pretty strictly taken from the content of the book (some of them even have specified titles), but the "blurb" is much more free-form. Basically the blurb should be a short sentence or two that will tell the user what the book contains, basically.

You can see what I did with the "How to Mix Magic Potions" books from Desert Dungeon Library. They all have the same title, but the blurb tells you what the potion is that each one talks about.

Because of logistics and technical restrictions, the article name must be unique in the wiki, so those aren't as strict either, but shouldn't be too crazy.

...still striving for the wiki to be encyclopedic in nature, and not subjective.

-- Whitelaces &dagger; Talk &dagger; &chi;&rho;&iota;&sigma;to&sigmaf; &alpha;n&epsilon;&sigma;t&eta;, &alpha;&lambda;&eta;&theta;&omega;&sigmaf; &alpha;n&epsilon;&sigma;t&eta; -- 08:50, 2 November 2006 (PST)

One more thing.... When the "title" of the book does not match the article name, then you NEED to have the parameter "pagename".... that way the link is not messed-up in the lists.

If you check the Template:Infobox Book page, you will see that I have this:


 * pagename  =

When you save the page, the " " will be replaced with the actual pagename.... no need to type it out for each one.

-- Whitelaces &dagger; Talk &dagger; &chi;&rho;&iota;&sigma;to&sigmaf; &alpha;n&epsilon;&sigma;t&eta;, &alpha;&lambda;&eta;&theta;&omega;&sigmaf; &alpha;n&epsilon;&sigma;t&eta; -- 08:55, 2 November 2006 (PST)
 * But it would get messed up because it'd be, say we use Golden Mine (book) as an example. If we used wouldn't the list template make it into Golden Mine (book) (book)? Craggles

Nope... the template will check for the parameters in this order:

"pagename" - if exists... link to pagename "title" - if "pagename" does NOT exist, link to title (book)

...I tried to make it flexible, smart, easy to use and comprehensive. I drew the line at confusing ;)

-- Whitelaces &dagger; Talk &dagger; &chi;&rho;&iota;&sigma;to&sigmaf; &alpha;n&epsilon;&sigma;t&eta;, &alpha;&lambda;&eta;&theta;&omega;&sigmaf; &alpha;n&epsilon;&sigma;t&eta; -- 11:27, 2 November 2006 (PST)


 * I tested it and I was right. Check Ashta'daramai Library and The Kha'labal Chronicles I (book), using the on the list template (in the the Ashta'daramai library) it makes a link called The Kha'labal Chronicles I (book) (book), as I said. Sorry to question your wisdom like this, it's just my nature. Craggles

That's because you put:


 * title    =

It needs to be:

| title      =  The Book Title | pagename   =   -- Whitelaces &dagger; Talk &dagger; &chi;&rho;&iota;&sigma;to&sigmaf; &alpha;n&epsilon;&sigma;t&eta;, &alpha;&lambda;&eta;&theta;&omega;&sigmaf; &alpha;n&epsilon;&sigma;t&eta; -- 14:38, 2 November 2006 (PST)


 * Now I getcha :), I checked some of the black knight parchments and saw what you meant. Anyways new problem, it appears thats there are two types of parchment a very yellowed version and the used lottery ticket look. I can't seem to fnd the old tattered version as an image anywhere here. i have no idea how to make my own images as immaculatly as you guys. So could you gimme a hand in finding it?

p.s. This image should show you what I mean:

About reporting violations to the TibiaWiki Policy.
Hi, i am not very experienced with the wiki but i am learning :P. Today at work, i noticed a user called kokokoko vandalised a few pages and created a "cloak" page that is non-sensical. Furthermore he put info on the "OTServ" page which is a direct violation and disgusting as it encourages readers of this wiki to change to OT servers.

I didn't know what to do to stop him so i left him a message on his talk page. I am not even sure if i am allowed to do that, so please enlight me!

Is posting on this page the correct way of reporting these situations?

Thanks!

Ryek Azagoth 04:51, 1 November 2006 (PST)

Yes, you can report stuff like that here, or on any other admin talk page.

About posting messages on other users talk pages.... that was the precisely correct thing to do. Sadly, his edits were clearly intentional and he has no other "good" contributions to the wiki in his contrib history, so I gave him a short-term ban. I also cleaned up (deleted or reverted) the bad articles he made.

Thanks for the message!

-- Whitelaces &dagger; Talk &dagger; &chi;&rho;&iota;&sigma;to&sigmaf; &alpha;n&epsilon;&sigma;t&eta;, &alpha;&lambda;&eta;&theta;&omega;&sigmaf; &alpha;n&epsilon;&sigma;t&eta; -- 06:28, 1 November 2006 (PST)