MarioWiki:Maintenance/Main page
The new Main Page design now has dynamic sections with the raw text in templates. Certain rules are required for updating each template and are listed here – most sections will update based on when information is available.
There are 7 templates in all; the 5 that need to be updated are in their own sections.
If you are interested in helping us often in this aspect, please go to the talk page for sign-up.
Finally, it is assumed that all templates with bullet points for info should contain around ¾-1½ lines per bullet point.
{{Featured}}
Featured articles are to be rotated every Saturday.
Main page rotation (within the next 3 weeks)
- Super Mario Run: November 9, 2024
- Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island: November 16, 2024
- Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem!: November 23, 2024
- Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars: November 30, 2024
For the complete list of featured articles for rotation, go here. Also, articles which most recently became a featured article are to take precedence, before following the regular rotation down the featured list.
{{Proposal}}
About every 4-6 days, a new active proposal that was recently created (so it will last 4-6 days on the Main Page) needs to replace the old one. If the description is short enough, post it in full, but most likely you'll have to truncate it with a piped link of
'''[[MarioWiki:Proposals#''Section Name''|(more...)]]'''
Proposer & Deadline are required in full.
{{News}}
This is the raw text for Mario & Nintendo news. In 3 lines, the info should be about a mix of the following:
- new developments & details for upcoming games
- release dates
- new games just heard about
- announcement that a game has just come out
however, it is NOT:
- a place for every Smashbros.com update. Please only include major updates (i.e. a newcomer or something to do with the Mario series). If you're not sure if a particular update is worthy, ask at the talk page here (not Template talk:News) first.
The first line of info should be accompanied with an image, no bigger than 100px thumbnailed. Please link and bold bold the character or game relating to the subject of each line, so guests & users alike are attracted to see more information in the article itself.
Whenever a worthy piece of news is revealed, it should replace an older piece asap.
{{Recently}}
This is similar to News, but for Wiki news. This time it should be a mix of:
- new statistical milestones
- user promotion(s)
- new major PipeProject(s)
- major change(s) or addition(s), possibly as a result of proposal(s)
NOT:
- newest user
- user of the month
This can also be updated at will when any of these occur. No images, however.
mario rules
{{Affiliates}} and {{RandomQuote}}
These templates are the 2 that need not be updated.
Affiliates will be updated by a bureaucrat when one needs to be added or deleted – though either case is rare.
RandomQuote produces a random usage of {{quote}}, from all the options shown at Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Quote. It combines the DPL and RandomSelection extensions, and was coded by Wayoshi (talk) as well.
