Resources for Authors

Overview

This section provides tools, links and other knick knacks to assist existing authors. It's rather sparse at the moment.

Links

• WDG CSS References
• Wikimedia's Markup Examples

Templates

Templates are pages that are built to be included into other pages. This section catlogues the templates used on the X-Com wiki.

Current Available Templates

Shared Pages

{{Tracked Tank Stats}} 

Tracked tank stats inserts a table with all the common shared stats used by the tracked tank chassis.

{{Hover Tank Stats}}

Hover Tank Stats is identical in function to Tracked Tank Stats, but lists information about the Hover Tank chassis.

For examples, refer to Heavy Weapons Platforms (UFO Defense)

Format Templates

{{Specs Table}} 

Contents:

cellpadding = "4" style = "border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px gray solid;"

Specs Table is used to change the style of the tables used to list specificiations for weapons, machines or personnel.

{{Spec Table Heading}}

Contents:

style = "background: gray; color:white;"

Specs Table Heading is used mainly with Spec Table to generate a heading line. Use it on the current cell or the entire row.

Example:

{| {{Specs Table}}
|- {{Specs Table Heading}} 
| The Heading
|-
| The Contents
|}

Generates:

The Heading

The Contents

Graphical Template: UFO Defense Alien Craft

To lay out the floor plans of alien craft for UFO Defense, you can use elements from the image below. It includes common elements of alien craft from UFO Defense:

Map Template

Other elements can be added to the template.