Thread:CzechOut/@comment-24661007-20140519131500/@comment-188432-20140519133824

Actually, I think I've figured out that you were talking about w:c:youngdracula:template:Character Navbox. The reason that's not working is that you haven't fully installed it. You don't appear to have any of the necessary CSS installed. Every time the code at w:c:youngdracula:template:Navbox mentions a "class" or an "id", that class or id must be defined in your CSS.

And I haven't thoroughly checked, but it seems likely that you haven't installed all the dependent templates (that is, templates that are found on the two main templates, Character Navbox and Navbox. If Character Navbox makes a reference to, I dunno, Navbox 2-col (which may not exist; it's just an example), and your wiki doesn't have Navbox 2-col, then Character Navbox won't work as expected.

You're going to need to:


 * Check your two main templates for internal templates (or what are perhaps more properly called sub-templates). Make sure that every template within them exists on your site.
 * Make sure that every sub-template has all of its sub-templates installed on the site, and all the sub-sub-templates has all of its sub-sub-sub-templates on your site.
 * Make sure you have your CSS in order. A good, though not perfect, starting place is tardis:MediaWiki:NavboxWP.css.  This lays out all the relevant CSS in an easier-to-follow way than perhaps finding it buried in a MediaWiki:Common.css file.  Also, this file more or less uses the Wikipedia default.  Since Wikipedia is ultimately the place where you (and just about everyone) got their code, it makes sense to look at the source.

Hope that helps! Ultimately, setting up the Wikipedia-derived navboxes is probably a good, solid day out of your life — if done properly. But once it's done, you rarely have to revisit it.