Forum:Introducing documentation and timeline templates

There are two new templates that have been added to the wiki.

The first is Template:Timeline, for use on, oddly enough, the timeline pages.

The old navigation code looks like this:

By comparison, the new template creates the following output:

When you check out the template, you'll find instructions for how to use it on year, decade and century pages. If you're editing or surfing through the timeline pages and come across the old code, please take a few seconds to replace it with the new template. :)

Which brings us to Template:Documentation, which is intended to make creating and documenting new user templates easier.


 * → Koschei: :  Life. But not as we know it.  16:56, March 26, 2010 (UTC)


 * I really like the "standardization" that the documentation template will bring. Very crisp.  Not so wild about the timeline thing, but it's better than what was there before.  I don't visit year/century pages all that often so I was surprised to discover that the previous navigation was apparently not a template at all.  So who's actually going to be doing the laborious work of putting this new temp on the hundreds of pages involved?    Czech Out   ☎ | ✍  12:50, March 27, 2010 (UTC)


 * The beautiful thing is that once all those pages are hit with the template, it'll be trivial to insert a new navigation panel if someone feels like designing it. Until then, the layout at least has the advantage of being easier to navigate visually for folks who have problems with closely grouped strings of text on screen.
 * → Koschei: :  Life. But not as we know it.  18:22, March 29, 2010 (UTC)