DayZ:Templates

This page provides a list of the most important and commonly used templates at this wiki. If you feel that a template belongs on this page, do not hesitate to add it. For a list of all templates in the wiki, categorized into the various subcategories see Category:Templates.

What are Templates?
Wiki templates provide a means to insert the same content over and over in different (or the same) pages. This saves editors the hassle of duplicating the same text again and again, and also helps ensure consistency. Templates are generally shown with the format required to use the template (e.g. Stub). Clicking the template name takes you to the template's page, where you can see what it looks like and how it is used.

For a more general explanation of what templates are and how they are used, see wikipedia Help:Templates.

Notice Templates
Notice templates are used when it's important for visitors of the wiki to know something about an article before they begin reading it. They should generally be placed at the very top of a page unless you only want to mark a section for "treatment" -- then they should be at the top of that specific section.

Maintenance notices are considered more important than their awareness counterparts, and should therefore be placed at the top of the page first before adding awareness notices below them.

Maintenance
Maintenance notices are used if you see that something is out of order with an article and want to bring it to the attention of other editors or administrators. They display a box describing the issue and add the page to the appropriate maintenance category automatically.

When a page requires multiple maintenance notices (such as Outdated and Images Needed), they should be arranged according to importance. Maintenance tags are color-coded to clearly show the hierarchy of importance: red, orange, yellow, and blue are most-to-least important in that order. These notices have been assigned their importance based on the idea that the accuracy and currency of an article's content is the #1 priority in maintaining the wiki.

Awareness
This type of template is used to call attention to a specific aspect of the page, such as the fact that it is part of a project or only pertains to something tangentially related to the game. Notices such as Experimental Content or Historical Content, for example, are used to indicate when an article is about something in DayZ which is not currently available to players.

Infobox Templates
Infobox templates are usually called using parameters, i.e. each infobox has different values which need to be defined when calling it. Find the template you need from the list below and refer to the template's documentation to see what parameters are required. If there are multiple templates of a certain type, use the most specific one.