MAG:Templates
Templates are an important part of any good mediawiki wiki. They help tag, categorize, identify, stylize and format articles, and improve code readability and clarity, and generally make life easier for everybody.
To that end, I'd like to focus efforts here on creating and maintaining a set of templates for maemowiki.
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Tasks
- Develop guidelines for the creation, categorization, style and format of new templates.
- Ensure existing templates comply with these guidelines.
- Figure out what templates we need (this is a very fluid task that will likely never be completed).
- Create those templates.
Types of templates
There are effectively two types of templates that need to be created:
Transcluded
First, we have transcluded templates are those that help in navigation, organization, categorization, and tagging. They are designed to maintain uniform look and format across the entire wiki. These will constitute the bulk of the work. Things like,
Main article: Maemowiki Action Group
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This article is continued discussion from the maemo.org brainstorm Please see the 100 Days agenda for more. |
- Template:Community:
- Community news
- Maemo Community Council
- maemo.org team
- Community mailing lists
- Community projects we depend on
- Maemo professionals
- Maemo people
- Getting involved
Substituted
Second, we have substituted templates, which are those that provide skeletal frameworks for certain types of pages. These will include things like the Close-source justification page, and open-source petition page.
For example, an early version of such a template is Template:Plan metadata (see User:jaffa/Sandbox for example usage). One thing to note is that nice, clean CSS classes like "wikitable" do not seem to be present in maemowiki at the moment.