Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-1370845-20180902000542

Hey all, just here with a quick project announcement for a project I'd like everyone to get involved with.

I am responsible for most of the templates that we use, and the old CSS that styled them. Looking at these old templates, I have to say that they're all really bad compared to today's standards. Suffice to say, I am a much better coder today, and wiki templates in general have come a long way since. To redo these templates based on others on Dev Wiki, and using new CSS to style them, would:


 * 1) Massively improve our load times
 * 2) Give us much cleaner code, so other people can look through it
 * 3) Give us much better looking templates with the rewritten CSS
 * 4) Possibly recategorize all our templates to use a better category system which makes more sense

The rewritten CSS could get our MW:Wikia.css down from 30k bytes to about 22k bytes. That's a far more manageable size. Not to mention, the templates would be improved.

However, the problem is that to redo the navboxes, as you can see from here and here, there are almost 400 navboxes on the wiki to redo. It's one thing redoing that for other wikis where all navboxes are for mainspace, but the vast, vast majority of the navboxes here are user-made. I can't really do this alone. This is where you come in.

If you think this is worth doing, I'd love to get a team of users involved to help mass convert the navboxes and amboxes to the new style. If people are up for it, I will convert the CSS the following weekend, and we can then convert our templates after that. This will mean the old templates will look broken, but that's only temporary until they're converted to the new styles.

Please let me know if you have questions and would like to sign up! 