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Guide #1: Infoboxes and Infobox Variations
What is an Infobox? An Infoxbox is, as the name suggests, a information box that generally stores brief information in an organized format. This is used across different wikis for varying reasons, and is a rather convenient way of storing brief information that would clutter up an article.
How are Infoboxes used on this wiki? They are used to store basic profile information of a user, as well as extra information when it comes down to other user groups. So, basically a miniature profile on user pages.
Can I add extra information to the Infoxbox on my page? Go ahead! It's your page, but if you add something that changes (For example, Gems), it is solely your responsibility to keep it updated.
Can I customize the colours and style? Preferably not for now, as I strive for having some consistencies on the wiki, but feel free to attempt at persuading me.
What are the guidelines for user pictures? It must not be anything inappropriate or inflammatory and must relate to the user in same way. The default picture is usually their avatar, but is definitely up to change. Please do not put real photos of the user in the user infoboxes.
Basic Template Guide
Quote: Basic Template Code
{| style="float:right; width:100px; border:1px solid #999; margin:0 0 1em 1em;"
|-
! colspan="2" style="font-size:large; padding:5px; background:#944D94; color:#FFA366;" | Username
|-
| colspan="2" |[[File:picture.jpg|center|200px]]
|-
| '''User ID'''
| User ID
|-
| '''Join Date'''
| Join Date
|-
| '''Gender'''
| Gender
|-
| '''Birthday'''
| Birth Date
|}
1. In order to add this template to a page, click on the "Source" tab when in editing mode and copy and paste the code to the absolute beginning of the editing space you are provided. The "Source" tab should be to the left of the "Visual" tab, it shows the bare-bones of the article including all kind of formatting, and leaves room for some more than what Visual editing provides.
2. The bolded indicates parts you should change. For basic User templates, leave everything else as is. Most of these are self-explanatory, but I will explain them anyways.
- Username: This is the known or current username of the user, which is shown in the header of the Infobox. Use the exact capitalization of the user's name, regardless of the article's name, as wikia automatically capitalizes the first letter of articles.
- picture.jpg: After uploading a image for the user's profile to the wikia, replace this with the name of the image - usually what you saved it as originally. It is rather important to keep the 200px in this same line, as this is what scales the image up or down regardless of the image's original size.
- User ID: The ID number of the user, which is found by a)Looking on the user's profile under the "Account Info" box & b) Looking at the link address of the user's profile, it is at the end (user=IDishere).
- Join Date: The date the user joined, which is shown on their profile. Do not add the hour in which they joined, only the year and day as that varies. It is preferred you also have this date under the timezone of UTC+0000, which is coordinated universal time - conversion here. Remember that dS has it so that you have to set your timezone in your account settings or else it will be set to the default time.
- Gender: The user's specified gender as is in their profile. Please do not put an assumed gender of a person/one that is not set in their profile, unless you are the user themself.
- Birth Date: Same rules as above. It is very important to respect a user's privacy, so if there is no birthday in the user's profile, put "Unknown" or "Unspecified", regardless of your knowledge of their age.
Hunter Template Guide
Quote: Basic Template Code
{| style="float:right; width:100px; border:1px solid #999; margin:0 0 1em 1em;"
|-
! colspan="2" style="font-size:large; padding:5px; background:#944D94; color:#FFA366;" | See Basic Guide
|-
! colspan="2" style="font-size:small; padding:1px; background:#FFA366; color:#944D94;" | Hunter
|-
| colspan="2" |[[File:See Basic Guide|center|200px]]
|-
| '''User ID'''
| See Basic Guide
|-
| '''Join Date'''
|See Basic Guide
|-
| '''Gender'''
| See Basic Guide
|-
| '''Birthday'''
| See Basic Guide
|-
! colspan="2" style="font-size:9px; padding:5px; background:#944D94; color:#FFA366;line-height:9px;" | Forums Moderated
|}
1. I will only be highlighting the one difference from the basic template, which is right at the end. You apply this to pages all the same as above, and of course, this only goes on pages for users who are Hunters.
- Forums Moderated: List all of the forums the user currently moderates. Keep it as short as possible.
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