Template talk:WikiNav

I like the idea here, but given that it's used on the majority of pages on the wiki I would like to see it polished a bit more before replacing the existing NavBoxes. Some ideas for improvement: 1. Classes and items need to be condensed and/or beautified. For these I think that reusing the icons on the front page may be a decent idea 2. The navbox should be context sensitive (e.g. when called through a template on a item page, the items row should be highlighted/placed on top/otherwise called out) 3. The navbox should be collapsed by default as it's fairly thick. Along with point #2, using JS it should be possible to have the "active" row uncollapsed while the others remain collapsed. These are my opinions, so of course open to discussion on these ideas. GeoGalvanic (talk) 20:06, 7 April 2021 (UTC)


 * 1: I did something for it.
 * 2: I tryed something about it. It is now possible to add "|items=True" to highlight the item. exemple : https://lastepoch.fandom.com/wiki/Gold
 * 3: If we change To mw-collapsed, it will be collapsed by default. (and actually, add "|collapsed=True" make it to be collapsed)
 * But i don't think it would be a good thing. This template is at the bottom of the page, so it is not a problem. It would be less accessible.
 * "using JS it should be possible to have the "active" row uncollapsed while the others remain collapsed." i have no idea about how to do it. Yes, it should be possible, but it doesn't seams easy to do. --GKPlight (talk) 22:55, 7 April 2021 (UTC)


 * @GKPLight check out these ideas from here, I'm preferential to option 3.
 * In order for css/js to display you'll need to copy User:GeoGalvanic/common.js and User:GeoGalvanic/hydradark.css on to your respective user pages.
 * Some additional notes:
 * The template is not technically at the bottom of the page, the category links are always at the bottom, along with the site info(that no one cares about)
 * There are several nav templates that are still missing from this one (Template:Locations, Template:Quests, Template:Characters, etc) that will make this much longer once added in.
 * I should be able to use a bot script to easily add this to all existing pages (so that we don't need to use a redirect on current templates). I haven't decided if I want to add this template directly to every page or through display templates such as Template:Equipment if one exists for the page yet. -- GeoGalvanic (talk) 23:32, 9 April 2021 (UTC)


 * @GeoGalvanic I don't like the 2nd option, it make that the order is not always the same, and the third make that it need a clic.
 * (Template:Locations, Template:Quests, Template:Characters are infobox, not navbox.) My goal is not to have everything in one template, but everything easily accessible. The final version of it should be ~20% longer than actually.
 * The origine of this template is this : https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Template:MechNav there is not everything, but for exemple, if you want the list of the weapon, you can clic on "weapon", and have a page with an other template that contain all weapon. same for "Quest", "Warframes"... (this template is too long, i fight to not have it bigger)
 * Or this is another example https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Template:Genshin_Navbox, with a more suitable size.
 * "add it everywhere ?" : it is not my goal. --GKPlight (talk) 19:54, 10 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Hmmmmm... yes it would seem I was misinterpreting your intention here. If the goal isn't to have this as a "Comprehensive Nav Template" then I really don't like the way that content on this template is grouped. The way that this nav template is set up it currently encompasses about 50% of the wiki categorically and about 80% of the actual content. Has the 7 main categories of game content (and the orphaned Versions category), front page of the wiki is mostly set up to mirror this categorical structure. I would in that case want to keep Items, Classes, & Mechanics as their own separate templates, as they are now (also probably why I prefer option 3, because I don't want them grouped). In fact this seems to be the way that the warframe wiki you linked is intended to be set up, but the application of nav templates doesn't really seem to be entirely consistent over there.
 * If the main idea is to have this template be used as top level template only (e.g. on Equipment, but not on Tower Shield) I think that this would be okay, however I would still want to see both an equipment/items and this nav template on the Equipment page.
 * The 3 infobox/page templates I mentioned don't have navbox templates made for them yet, but it is the plan that they will eventually get their own. --GeoGalvanic (talk) 21:24, 10 April 2021 (UTC)


 * "If the main idea is to have this template be used as top level template only (e.g. on Equipment, but not on Tower Shield) I think that this would be okay, however I would still want to see both an equipment/items and this nav template on the Equipment page." : so, like in warframe, where there is a very detailed template for the weapon, separate of the general template ? Yes, it allow to but mush more precise ; when someone want to explore the different existing item, he could use it. --GKPlight (talk) 22:11, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

(reset indent) Yeah, if that's the way we want to use it I think that this is fine as is, just as addition to and not replacing the existing templates. --GeoGalvanic (talk) 22:26, 10 April 2021 (UTC)