Template talk:Kolwiki

Don't forget, SOP on a wiki is that the external site icon should show up for sites outside of this particular wiki. I'm not sure how to make this work properly in a template such as this, but it should probably be looked at before it's used a great deal. (There's also the possibility of registering coldfront as an external wiki recognized by this one, which does much the same as this template, but involves getting fewyn to push some buttons.) --StDoodle (#1059825) 08:13, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

I didn't think of it like that. Since the Kol wiki uses wikipedia without the external site icon I just figured that it makes sense to not use links for the kol wiki since it is so important to us. I was about to include this template on Datatype Constants, Get ingredients and Mana cost modifier. Before I do that, do you think we should have external link icons for the kolwiki? They're.. well.. Ugly. Should we ask fewyn to push the button and remove plainlinks from the template or what? --Bale 08:22, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

That's a good point. In fact, that's probably what the result of registering coldfront as an external wiki would be; though it may be configurable, I dunno. It's a tough call. I'd say perhaps just add a note to the template description that the template shouldn't be used if the external / internal nature is at all in question (can't think of a page that would be off hand, but you never know...).

As to whether or not to get fewyn to look into it; my answer is usually "if we can figure out a way that doesn't require fewyn to mess with the backend, and isn't a huge PITA, let's use it." --StDoodle (#1059825) 08:33, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

So, does that means you approve of both this template and saving the trouble of troubling fewyn? --Bale 09:17, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Er, yeah. Sorry, REALLY long night. Some kind of "don't use this template (do a full-out link instead, to get the symbol) when the link looks like one that might reasonably exist on THIS wiki" note is probably a good idea -- beyond that, it should work just fine. --StDoodle (#1059825) 10:16, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Huh. Apparently this template doesn't quite work perfectly (see Bad_Moon#Special_Adventures vs. Bad_Moon#Special_Adventures). --Heeheehee 02:10, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

I noticed that. :( Sadly I couldn't figure out how to fix it. (Because of the special properties of the # character.) Do you have any idea?

Perhaps anchor as an optional (third?) parameter?

All right, well, I've got the links to not look all funky, but that didn't really resolve the problem. Generally not good. --Heeheehee 20:39, 25 July 2010 (UTC)