Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-1251315-20160119130638

Hey guys

As I'm sure a couple of users will have noticed, the infoboxes have been receiving a few tweaks and improvements to better the wiki overall. For example, techniques and tools are now being listed automatically by the character infobox (see Shinra Kusakabe for an example) and some of you are likely wondering: how do I get techniques and tools to be listed on the infobox now?

Previously, the format required people to know how to use HTML (aka the  tag) and I personally have a distate for any infoboxes in which the transclusion of the infobox requires the end user to have to use code. It looks messy and just seems very unprofessional, not to mention more complicated if users didn't use the right format, leading to broken infoboxes and an all-round bad experience for editor.

With the new format, users no longer have to edit the character pages to include techniques and tools, as this is being done automatically with code used on the infobox. Here's how to go about listing a technique or tool in the infobox of a character: You should now see your page with the text you added, as well as some categories being listed at the bottom. However, if you go to the Infobox and expand the collapsible list of users, and then head to one of the pages listed there, you might find your technique or tool has not yet appeared on the infobox of the character in question.
 * 1) Head to or : it depends on which type you are making! (technique pages use Infobox/Technique, tool pages use Infobox/Tool). Once there, you'll see a "usage" section: copy/paste the pre-formatted code listed under that heading to your clipboard (this is done by highlighting the preformatted code and then either right-clicking the highlighted area and clicking Copy, or by pressing Ctrl+C while the text is highlighted)
 * 2) Now type in the pagename of your new article. Alternatively, you can just click the Contribute button at the top right and click "Add a Page" and specify the page name in the popup box.
 * 3) At the top of the article body, paste the infobox code you copied previously and fill out the article as normal.
 * 4) Now to ensure that the technique (or tool) will appear in the appropriate character's infobox, you need to specify the full name of the character that used this technique or tool under the  parameter in the infobox you copied over. This parameter uses a comma-delimited format: that is, all characters listed in this parameter should be separated with comma's to format them properly in the infobox. For example, if Shinra Kusakabe and Arthur Boyle both used the technique or tool of the page you are creating, you would write this:  . There is no need to include normal wikitext link format in this parameter: the infobox takes care of that for you :)
 * 5) Now publish the page!

This is easy to fix: you can either click on the drop-down arrow next to the Edit button and click "Null Edit", or you can just click the edit button, make no changes and hit Publish. Both are the same and they will cause the system to update the list of techniques and tools, and there is also no requirement to make null edits to update, as the system will update anyway. However, null editing makes it immediate and everyone will see the change.

I hope this guide has helped to explain the new format! Any questions? Great! Ask them in this thread and I'll try to assist :) 