All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part VIII

[robkelk]

Where you're coming from Lulzkiller, is ED which has too damn many large navigation templates.  I'm not opposed to lots of them, if they're kept pretty small.  Media franchises could each get their own.

But in the grand plan, I'd almost like the Wikipedia right-side infobox.  Things that would be listed: Genre, Medium, Episode count/volume count, production dates, laconic description, [[Central Theme].  We need to avoid the whole wtf-is-this-page phenomenon.    A trope equivalent would be laconic description, older than..., namer, ur example, maybe categories?  And I think doing this would more worthwhile than making navigation templates, but likely much harder.

I have experience with this sort of infobox - we use them extensively on the freebie wiki.

Before I code one, let's decide what we want in them, because re-coding them if the specs change is a right royal pain. It might be best to make a selection of infoboxes, since what makes sense for a record album doesn't make sense for a TV series...

EDIT: For example, the front-end to a possible manga infobox - data copied from Anime News Network.

{{infobox manga
| title = Oh My Goddess!
| image = Bell-keiichi2.jpg
| caption =
| author = [[Kousuke Fujishima]
| artist = [[Kousuke Fujishima]
| publisher = Kodansha (Japan)Dark Horse Comics (North America)Titan Books (UK)Pika Édition (France)Grupo Editorial Vid (Mexico)Planeta DeAgostini Comics (Spain)Edizioni Star Comics (Italy)Egmont Manga & Anime (Germany)Japonica Polonica Fantastica (Poland)Egmont Kärnan (Sweden)Tong Li Publishing Co., Ltd. (Taiwan)
| genre = [[Magical Girlfriend]
| volume count = 48
| first publication dates = 1989-08-23 - 2014-07-23
| laconic = She shows up to grant him a wish. He wishes for her.
| Central Theme = Being the best person you can be, no matter what the circumstances are.
}}

I can even code the infobox to add "Categoryages Needing Images" to the page if the "image" line is left blank. I might be able to code a SUBST to add the page name as the title if the "title" line is left blank, but I won't promise that; it might be processor-intensive.

RE-EDIT: I have a busy weekend this weekend - if somebody could copy Template:Infobox and its prerequisites over from Wikipedia (not the Commons) to All The Tropes, I'd appreciate it. We might want to grab the template's doc page at the same time, so that other folks can code custom infoboxes as well.
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Rob Kelk
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