Template:Dialogue/doc

Usage

To replicate the appearance of in-game dialogue. Please make dialogues on their own pages, like so: Kora Dialogue/Welcome to Haven!, with <noinclude>[[Category:Dialogues]]</noinclude> right after the last }} .

Then link to them as needed like so: {{:Kora Dialogue/Welcome to Haven!}} - this is template friendly. Have not encountered problems yet.

It is optional to hide this dialogue with Template:Dialogue/Showhide.

This way, users can:

• Find dialogues in bulk quickly via Category:Dialogues
• Update a dialogue that appears in more than one spot in the game/wiki right away and consistently.

Code

{{Dialogue
|character = 
|cd = 
|pd = 
}}

Parameters

Required

|character

the name of the character - do not use brackets etc. Just the name.

|cd

character dialogue.

|pd

player response to the character dialogue.

Examples

See what links here for examples of this template in action.

The NPC pages (NAME Dialogue/Location) do not use the optional Template:Dialogue/Showhide, revealing the entire dialogue alone on its own page for easy reading.

The other mainspace pages do. The dialogue page is inserted into the showhide for optional reading on pages with other information.

Notes

Forum Discussion about this template.

There is probably a more elegant way to code this template regarding the what I call "chunky" number of entries (something instead of cd 1, 2, 3...20), I just don't know quite how to work that in with the flexibility we need. One option is using individual entries per character-player interaction within a space, for example, like the accessory lists. They would just use a different container, not a class=sortable, and slightly tweak the entry behavior. But that also has downsides, and this template simply does it for you. Most conversations are short with a single NPC. With an entry that doesn't use PAGENAME or built in default switches, the NPC's name would need to be entered each time as far as I know - not a huge problem with copypaste, but annoying to do for different conversations with different NPCs, even with easy mass text replace options. This template takes care of that with a single entry, and has flexibility if there's more than one NPC in the dialogue.

Users so far seem to like the ease of entry of the format.