Thread:Yatalu/@comment-15636815-20151012194734/@comment-15636815-20151014211855

volume of information/changes: Come to think of it, we do more than just add the new game content. We're always tweaking something over there. Do you know about, or have you seen, any solutions (templates or otherwise) that members of a wiki family can use to inform each other of changes to their sites? Clearly, this would almost always be a notice from the EN site, but I can foresee that the non-EN sites also could introduce some valuable edits that the EN site could incorporate. If nobody knows that something changed on another site, though, they can't update their own site. Any ideas?

using .png: Good idea, but doesn't your   already add the interlanguage links? There's no point in having the infobox template add the links again. What would be cool would be if we could just have the infobox template accept, use it for the image link, and pass it to   (with   being first, of course). That's a bit awkward, though. Slightly cleaner would be if we had persistent variables. Then the user could: Then again, I guess it's not that big a deal just to copy the  parameter from the first template call and paste into the second as. I guess that's what we'll do.
 * 1) call
 * 2) call the infobox template, which would accept from #1 and use it for   instead of forcing the user to enter the same information a second time.

Losing users: I wasn't very serious about that. It's not a major concern, really. Perhaps, once people see language links at the top of every page, they'll be inspired to start sites in their languages, but as you said, the result probably will be increased cross-wiki communication, and that is always good.

portable help: Thanks for the idea. I don't see that happening, though. A few of our infoboxes are ready to be converted, but most still need to endure the aforementioned overhaul first. There are so many things we need to add and update in so many templates that it wouldn't be fair to Staff to ask for their help, then ask them to wait while we figure out what the hell we want. ;-)

 : With everything I've been researching this week, I realised that we need to start producing this. We do have a  that adds a one-sentence statement that a file qualifies for fair use, but we really need more to cover ourselves. Many of our files, especially the older ones, have no licensing info at all. The really outstanding news is that 99.4632% of our files are images copied from the game. Not only does every one of these files qualify for fair use, but they also have all the same info. In other words, your statement that  would have average complexity on our site is completely incorrect. It will be a ridiculously simple template that we'll barely use, anyway. What we really need is to modify  to include the appropriate information. This template currently accepts no parameters, and I see no reason why it should in the future.