Template:RobloxWikis/doc

Roblox Interwiki Project

The Interwiki project was started by Ender01, a bureaucrat on the Lumber Tycoon 2 Wiki on September 19th, 2016. It was designed to bring numerous Roblox wiki communities together through one main template. It is currently being maintained by various users (includes official devs and non-devs), and administered by Ender01, Karasuneth, and 0Michael105.

This is the template documentation for the Roblox Wiki Template, a template which references various wikis related to the Roblox platform.

Wiki qualifications
For wikis to be able to qualify for inclusion in the template, they must meet AT LEAST one of the following criteria:
 * 1,500 total edits
 * 15 or more active users
 * One admin or bureaucrat who has at least 500 edits and is very active

Other requirements:
 * All wikis MUST have 50 or more non-stub pages.
 * A wiki rules/policies page must exist, be written for the wiki, and linked in accessible, easy-to-find locations, such as the top navigation.
 * User rights request and granting procedure should exist, and all users with user rights should have been promoted for legitimate reasons.
 * All wikis should mainly be focused on factual, real information and resources about the topic it covers. "Fanmade content"/fanon sections are allowed on the wiki, but they must be kept in Discussions, blog posts, and/or in a distinct custom namespace (requested from Fandom) that is kept separate from actual articles on the topic and are clearly marked and treated as unofficial.
 * All wikis MUST have a link to the experience the wiki covers. (The only exception to this rule are wikis that cover a series of experiences (typically group wikis). In this case, the wiki must include a link to the Roblox group.)

All wikis MUST be user-friendly. This means that content can be readable by anyone and on any device. The CSS and HTML must be compatible with Fandom's platform. In light of changes to Fandom upgrading to a new version of MediaWiki and after viewing the incident with TWEM's CSS breaking in February 2018, wiki CSS and JS should be compatible with Fandom's interface.

These criteria and requirements are NOT the bare minimum a wiki should be; they are activity and organization checks, not a development check. A wiki should reasonably be more developed than the minimum criteria and requirements.

All wikis are subject to review from any of the interwiki leads. Although the above criteria is used by the interwiki leads, they are only base guidelines. If an interwiki lead denies the wiki, it will not be added until provided reasons for denial have been corrected. Some things you can do that interwiki leads will check for includes...
 * Clean out Special:Shortpages, make smaller pages larger or delete them. Redirects will not be shown on this list.
 * Combine tiny stubs into general articles if they are too specific. Remove pages about speculative information.
 * Make sure all of your pages have lots of content, or some of this content displayed in an infobox.
 * Your wiki's homepage has lots of content and is visually attractive (this includes CSS & HTML elements).
 * Wikis should be compatible with FandomDesktop. (See Help:FandomDesktop preparation guide)

The wiki has to cover a Roblox experience that is not already in the template. If there are multiple wikis on the same experience, the admins/bureaucrats of the two wikis should merge their wikis (please refer to Help:Merging communities).

To ensure the best possible communication in the project, participating wikis must have at LEAST ONE staff member with administrator rights that regularly is on Discord in the Roblox Wiki and Interwiki Discord at all times, or your wiki may be subject to removal from the template. This is to allow for communication to inform of cross-wiki issues or concerns.

If you believe your wiki qualifies, and you are an admin of that wiki, reach out to one of the interwiki leads' message walls on Community Central, and provide a link to the wiki, along with confirming you are in the Interwiki Discord and who you have verified as (or whoever else out of your admin team is serving as the representative).

Wiki removal
Interwiki leads retain the right to remove a wiki from the interwiki project for any reason they see fit. Wikis that have poor moderation, or whose moderation team is not aware of FANDOM policies, may be removed temporarily until conditions have been improved upon. Additionally, wikis may be removed through an interwiki vote.

Design
The template was originally based on some concepts of Material Design, a design language created by Google in 2014, and has been heavily improved on continuously since. Material Design is a guide for app developers and website makers to create beautiful and easy to use apps. Since then, the template has kept a consistent design with changes in its color palette, which now follows Roblox Brand Guidelines.

Interwiki discussion
On February 4th, 2018, Ender01 approved the idea for an Interwiki Chat, originally thought of by Jerricks, and that has since became the Roblox Wiki Discord server.

Adding this template onto your wiki
(Note that you can only add this to a wiki's main page if you have sufficient permissions to edit it)

Using the current editor

 * 1) Go to the home page and click "EDIT" and go into the Source Editor by clicking the menu button right next to the "Cancel" button and then click "Source Editor" and paste the following code wherever you desire:
 * 2) Publish your changes.

Using the classic editor

 * 1) Access the classic editor by clicking the arrow next to the "edit" button and clicking "classic editor"
 * 2) Switch to the source editor by clicking the "source editor" tab next to the visual editor tab"
 * 3) Insert the follow code wherever you desire:
 * 4) Publish your changes.

Adding your wiki to the template
As of March 22, 2019, we ask that you please send a message to an interwiki lead to have your wiki added, rather than adding it yourself. We ask this so that we can keep track of wikis and keep the Discord server updated. We also do this to ensure all of the wikis on the template meet our requirements. The interwiki lead will either add the wiki for you, or inform you that you may add it, in which case follow the instructions below.


 * 1) Go to the editor.
 * 2) We want to keep this template in alphabetical order. Find the appropriate alphabetical range for the link based off the Roblox experience name (ex: Lumber Tycoon 2, L).
 * 3) Insert this into the template:
 * 4) * Change   to the domain of the wiki (the part before ).
 * 5) * Change   to the name of the Roblox experience the wiki is based on.
 * 6) Publish your changes.

Template customization
RobloxWikis is one of the only Interwiki templates on Fandom that enables its affiliated communities to customize the template through their CSS. Although it would be easier to provide customization parameters within the template itself; using CSS classes was found to be more efficient in template loading, template size, and page size.

RobloxWikis has certain classes that allows communities to customize certain parts of the template:
 * 1)  : This controls the top part of the template.
 * 2)  : The head buttons are the button-like links that link users to the template page, this info page, and the Interwiki Discord.
 * 3)  : This part of the template is not always active, as it is usually used for polls for communities' opinions on changes.
 * 4)  : Customizes the table and background.
 * 5)  : Customizes rows A-D and N-S.
 * 6)  : Customizes rows E-M and T-Z.

Keep in mind that each of these are critical to the template, NONE of these classes should be customized to be hidden. Doing so can result in temporary suspension of the wiki until the wiki resolves the issue.