Talk:Main Page/Archive 3

Article time, date, and information currency
I believe every article should include a trailing "last revised on dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm, Article is believed to be current as of Ikariam v.x.x.x.x"

This will prevent many posts on the game forum(s) that complain about the wiki's quoting outdated info, and noobs coming up with questions like how they were looted that much when they maintained a L1 trading port per the wiki advice, which is currently not only irrelevant but completely wrong as well.

Thanks a lot for your input on this suggestion.
 * I have an idea for that. Let me work on it this weekend. Also, don't forget to sign your messages like this: rmedic 11:38, February 19, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks a lot. I did not know about signatures. Thanks for the tip. A quick look at wikia help and I figured how to sign my comments. This is basically a message to test if what I understand is correct. Mighty Ikarios 13:16, February 19, 2010 (UTC) Awesome .. it works

I have made a template Update. You can use it without parameters to indicate a page that needs to be updated. Example:

If you put a version as the first parameter like 0.3.0 it will show the warning only if the latest version isn't the same as the parameter. In other words, it will show only when the game gets a new patch. Example:

Or you can use 0.3.2.2 so it will show a warning when the new patch comes out. That way we can track which pages need to get updated. I will be adding some categories, shortcuts and other fun stuff to it soon. Do you like it? Do you not like it? Let me know. -- rmedic 21:54, February 21, 2010 (UTC)

Awesome. I didn't know you can "program" stuff in wiki. I'll have to take a good look at the wiki help. Is there a way to lookup/access/short cut/reference to all available templates and their functions? Thanks Mighty Ikarios 22:04, February 21, 2010 (UTC)


 * You can take a look at Help:Templates on MediaWiki for all the information you need about Wiki "programming". Different wikis require different templates. All templates are stored in Template: namespace and should be documented. There is also a Category:Templates. You can start there. -- rmedic 12:30, February 22, 2010 (UTC)