Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-6678468-20130224023744/@comment-4189499-20140701105953

Her Desmond72. You need help for "The Great Warrior Wiki", right? If so, the template called "infobox" (w:c:the-great-warrior:template:infobox) is the basic infobox used more as an example of what to do for the other infoboxes than one you're actually meant to use. Since you want it for a book, you should use the template called "infobox book" (w:c:the-great-warrior:template:infobox book). If you want to customise that template, you have to hit the "edit" button on the template page (linked above). That will give you something that looks like this:

I'm guessing that that looks like a load of nonsense to you, right? Well, good thing you don't have to understand all of it to make it suit your needs! Here's the basics of what you need to know. What you want first is to make the parameters say what you want them to say. Let's have a look at the following piece: ! Author

In this little chunk, the word by itself beside the exclamation mark, in this case "Author", is the word which appears on the right of the table, saying what the information is. The word inside the curly brackets on the left, in this case "author", is what is known as the parameter name, and is basically what people type on a certain page to have it replaced with the needed information. The third word inside the brackets, to the right of the pipe, is the word which is displayed if the user doesn't use the named parameter on a page. So, to put this particular chunk onto the page, ignoring the other parameters, we would write:

and the infobox will show the name "Robin Elms" in the infobox to the right of the word "Author".

If we want to add another parameter to the infobox, ie another chunk of information, we can copy the chunk used for "Author", paste it below the "Author" chunk, and change the parts. So if we wanted to have a chunk which showed the main character of the book, we could then replace the word "Author" with "Main Character", the word "author" inside the brackets with "main", and, just for the sake of the example, change the word "Unknown" to "Nonexistent". We could then call the infobox from a page with:

and have the words "Main Character    Dawn Bourveau" appear in the infobox. If you put the "Main Character" chunk in the infobox, but didn't use it on a page, eg if you only put down:

underneath the Author level it would read "Main Character    Nonexistent".

So that's the basics on how to change parameters in an infobox. You can do this as many times as you need to, and feel free to delete any chunks you don't want. Any further questions, or if you need further clarification, just soot me a message!