Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-43612541-20190828173542/@comment-43612541-20190828200744

Andrewds1021 wrote: Thanks, I'll take a look at those links. I think it's either CSS or HTML. It looks somewhat recognizable, from what I've seen of coding out in the wild. The wiki isn't  totally ancient, thankfully, but seven years old still seems old in the scope of the Internet.
 * 1) The pages in the "Help" namespace should be linked to a central copy unless your wiki explicitly overwrote them at some point. As such, they should be the most up-to-date versions. Although, this is no guarentee that they are current. When it comes to coding, there are several "languages" that may be involved. There are those that are commonly used for websites in general such as CSS, JS, PHP, and HTML. Of these, Wikia allows you do use CSS, JS, and some HTML "directly". I put "directly" in quotes because it still gets processed by the MediaWiki engine rather than actually getting applied directly to the page. Then there is the MediaWiki markup language. Without looking at your templates, I would guess they are either done in this markup language or HTML. There is also a chance that your old wiki may be using Lua, yet aother language. As for portable infoboxes, that is yet another language designed specifically for Wikia. For inforboxes, I would start at Help:Infoboxes. There are a few pages it links to with more details about specific aspects. As for everything else, well, there is just too much to cover it in only a page or two. I would probably be best if you decided what specifically you want to do and then we could point you to specific pages.
 * 2) You would include these using a horizontal group; which you can read about at Help:Infoboxes/Tags.