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 Karasuneth and 0Michael105.

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

About the Interwiki Project
The Roblox Interwiki Project is an application-only project. Wikis must meet certain criteria to be permitted to submit an application, and wikis will only be added if the application is accepted by the leads.

Wiki qualifications
For wikis to be able to qualify for inclusion in the template, they must meet some criteria. ''' If a wiki does not have all of these criteria, the leads will deny the application upfront and not do any further review. Please check each of these individually BEFORE applying.'''

The Interwiki Project is for established and developed wikis. The project is not for new wikis, or wikis on smaller-scope topics that cannot meet these requirements. The following criteria and requirements are NOT the bare minimum a wiki should be; they are activity and organization checks, not a minimum progress check. A wiki should reasonably be more developed than the minimum criteria and requirements.

All wikis MUST have the following to qualify and apply at minimum:
 * Be about factual information on a Roblox experience OR about a development team (group)'s related experiences (to qualify, the experiences must have some relevance to each other and not make the wiki hard to navigate).
 * No fanmade content/fanon wikis. "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. These sections should be blatantly obvious that they are fanmade. If this is a major part of the community, however, we suggest moving this to a separate wiki.
 * No articles generally for speculation in the article space.
 * No advertisement or resource wikis. Resource/guide pages (in article space) are permitted, but they should not be the primary content of the wiki, and should generally otherwise be done in an informational, impersonal fashion. Generally, these guides should also be about experience functionality only; for group wikis, there should not be rank-up guides.
 * 50 or more non-stub articles, and not an excessive amount of stubs
 * Most of said non-stub articles should be decently written in a general encyclopedic format, and not have massive grammar errors or clearly inconsistent grammar.
 * A rules/policies page: it should be linked in a very noticeable part of the top navigation. This should also be generally complete and well-written.
 * A user rights request and granting procedure as a wiki policy: a project page or section of the rules on this topic should exist and be just as easy to find as the rules.
 * By extension, the procedures for user rights must meet Fandom guidelines, be reasonable (e.g. don't use off-site applications), and all users with user rights should have been promoted for legitimate reasons.
 * All wiki project pages should be in the project namespace, and should have comments disabled.
 * The wiki should have used ThemeDesigner for both themes. The light theme must be a light theme, and the dark theme must be a dark theme.
 * All imported and utilized JS and CSS, including from the Fandom Dev Wiki, should be permitted for wiki-wide use.
 * Make sure the wiki is following Fandom's customization policy.
 * No accessibility issues. Please verify all ThemeDesigner options meet accessibility contrast guidelines, including that the wiki background/banner image is not too distracting, that the general content background is not too translucent, and that the top navigation text can be read against the background/banner image. Do not use distracting or overly visual JS elements. Avoid color-coding information as the only way to discern between certain elements. Do not use stylistic text for any general article text or headers.
 * Additional resources on wiki accessibility: Help:Contrast, Help:Including the color-blind at your wiki
 * 15 or more active editors **OR** one administrator who has at least 500 non-minor edits and is very active.
 * No users phrased as the "owner" or "leader" of the wiki, and no staff members referring to the wiki as their wiki; nobody owns the wiki, and staff should not be acting as owners.
 * No active disputes between staff members.
 * Staff members should be generally suitable for having their user rights and positions, such as not feeding the trolls. The wiki staff should also be following the Wiki Rules and Blocking Policy.
 * No obvious or major ongoing violations of Fandom policies by the wiki or its staff team.

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, wiki CSS and JS should be compatible with Fandom's interface.

Additional application info
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 (if it can be 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 the pages have lots of content, or some of this content displayed in an infobox.
 * The 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)
 * Include the RobloxWikis template on the wiki's home page.

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). If there are multiple established wikis for one experience, regardless of which one is applying, ALL wikis on that experience will be declined until they are merged into one wiki.

Wiki URLs should be accurate, accessible, and not have conflicts with other topics. Abbreviations are discouraged except for long experience titles. Having "roblox" or similar in the URL (if it is not part of the topic name inherently) is discouraged, unless the wiki could be mistaken for something else outside of Roblox (e.g. the My Hello Kitty Cafe wiki uses  as there are real-life Hello Kitty Cafes), in which it is required - applicable wikis that do not have it will not be considered for the project until the wiki URL is updated. To update the wiki URL, an administrator of the wiki should contact Fandom.

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). Adding wikis to the template that have not been approved by the leads will result in the wiki being removed from the template.

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.