Template talk:Guild

Parserfunction help
Anyone know I can fix the template so that if you select 'none' for guild faction it just doesn't add that bit to the guild page? Check a recent guild edit to see the problem.-- Ciovala Talk 20:38, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes'm. Fixed (I believe).  I just added an if function to the category list, so that if the guild_faction is blank/none, it doesn't do the faction category. :) --  Kethra  { talk }  20:44, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Awesome, thanks! :) My brain is fried at the moment and couldn't remember the syntax. -- Ciovala Talk 20:45, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Protect
Since we've had a few people confusedly editing the template instead of using the form, might wanna protect it again.-- Kethra  { talk }  21:35, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't see why not? It should already be set to read-only/un-editable.... --bc 21:38, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Cio released it a while back so I could make some changes to fix the parsing.-- Kethra  { talk }  21:47, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the head's up - it has been protected again. Just say something on the talk page if anyone has a valid reason for an edit.  -- Ciovala Talk 22:28, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Need it unlocked again to fix the category include bug if not |server= defined. Maygus 09:33, 14 January 2011 (CST)
 * Ok, done in about 10 seconds. -- Ciovala Talk 10:52, 14 January 2011 (CST)
 * The template page should not say "Edit the page...", as all people familiar with templates know that and people adding guilds might be confused (point in case, omg I just noticed who created that guild page *g*). Instead it should include "add guild by form" as in Guild right on top of the page for all people who accidentally get to this page. --Mardur 16:47, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Requested Changes

 * To adapt to the Shard namespace, the server code  should be changed to the following. Without that fix, all shard links are broken!! --Mardur 20:05, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

 !align="left" | Contact
 * Homepage and Forum links are sometimes very long, expanding the infobox alot. The URLs should not be displayed completely, but link names like  and   used instead. That can be moved to the Contact column. --Mardur 15:49, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Something is weird with the cells. The "Faction" cell has no rounded box, probably due to using  (creating a pipe) instead of just   (exclamation mark) in front of the  . The website cell is too big, at least if forum is missing (an empty #if-forum block leads to two empty linebreaks causing a paragraph break on the wiki page). --Mardur 16:33, 24 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Apologies for not getting to this - haven't been watching changes as much as I probably SHOULD have been >.<
 * For your second suggested change is all over that replacing the existing forum/website links and pushing it into a single column? I'm thinking perhaps have Contact spread over two columns and then email / homepage / forum below that.  Make sense?    Maygus  talk &bull;  cont 15:02, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
 * We can have separate columns, it is just that very long URLs excessively increase the size of the infobox. I also found a note by someone (can't find it right now) that the form is truncating URLs. In fact, the form is limiting the number of characters of the homepage value. That limitation can be dropped if a generic link text is displayed instead. Or we truncate the displayed text by using a string parser function? --Mardur 16:10, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Guild Form
The "edit with form" button appears on all pages in category "Guilds" instead of all pages with that namespace? Problem is, that the guild pages are not in that category (at least not directly). --Mardur 16:33, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Probably makes sense for the has default form bit to be added to the faction pages, then? -- Ciovala Talk 16:53, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Servers not showing up on Server list
noticed that there are several "wanted pages" for servers/shards that all link back to guilds, not really sure whats needed to fix it, but could someone take a look? Cloudbourne is a good example shard/server.   Larryl0099  talk &bull; cont 16:36, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
 * That's just a template issue. The Template:Guild is protected, otherwise I would have fixed that already. The server pages were moved to the "Shard" namespace, but the template creates links without that prefix. I added the fix to the talk page 2 weeks ago (see above "Requested Changes"). --Mardur 14:47, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
 * looks like Maygus has applied the change, however even when adding the server line to a guild page the link directs from the guild page to the shard page, but the guild on server section still doenst work, thats something else that i dont understand, also having looked at the server list on the guild form it still doesnt list all the shards. I think that i should stop looking at stuff i dont understand and just use my time to add content, but if it allows you guys to fix something that isnt working then its helps all :) (unless you tell me different :))   Larryl0099  talk &bull; cont 15:16, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I suppose Larryl refers to the SMW created list of guilds per shard not being updated immediately (e.g. Guild:Echoes From the Past added today is still missing at Shard:Byriel). Those changed are added to a Job Queue and updated later. There is however a problem with wrong property names used on the Guild Form, see Form_talk:Guild. I added the faction names without the article to the possible values for now, but the system did not update yet (that list should be much longer than just 6 entries). --Mardur 15:59, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
 * It's prob the excessive lack of sleep I've had... but can you link me some examples of what's happening and what SHOULD be happening? IE: on page pagename the link for XYZ should go to Category:ABC, however it currently points to ABC . :D   Maygus  talk &bull;  cont 15:42, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Ok not too good with the links yet but here goes,


 * This is the NOT WORKING EXAMPLE the page Guild:Corrupted_Essence should show up on the Guilds section on Shard:Dimroot, the guild page has the |server=Dimwood line on it and there is a link on the page that brings up the shard page, but the guild is not shown under the guild section.


 * This is the WORKING EXAMPLE the page Guild:Afterlifeguild links to the shard page Shard:Byriel and it also shows up in the guild section of that shard page, as do several other guilds.
 * im still a noob in terms of the backend works on a wiki and dont even know what SMW stands for. I have also noticed that when adding a new guild that the server list drop down is missing a lot of servers, is that related? think ill go find a wiki's for dummies book and see if i can help myself to help you guys.   Larryl0099  talk &bull;  cont 16:27, 3 March 2011 (UTC)