[New Template] State Template suite
Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 6:17 am
After some significant input and feedback from champs and selected area managers, I am pleased to announce the availability of the new common State Template for the USA.
Its purpose is to create consistency between all 50+ states and territories in the USA. The templates are complex in the back end to enable some simplicity on the user side, but still allow all state/territories to be updated with a single change to a linked template. It was designed to be updated by people with little to no Wiki editing experience.
Parts of the template are common to all states, some parts are unique to individual states.
If you would like to see what it looks like, check out these pages already using the new template:
Other states being tested now: EDIT: The test phase is officially over. The template is ready for use by any state that is so interested in using it.
All current state pages not yet on the new template have the template {{UpdateToStateTemplate}} already added. If you start working on a test page for the state template, consider updating the UpdateToStateTemplate template on the original page to include a link to the test page. The link above provides the information necessary to format the link. Do not include the full URL, just the page name like {{UpdateToStateTemplate|Arkansas/Test}}.
I updated the template to include two different tracking categories.
https://wiki.waze.com/wiki/Category:Upd ... e_template
- Pages in progress with a link to the test page.
https://wiki.waze.com/wiki/Category:Upd ... e_template
- Pages that do not yet have the test page linked in the template.
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Current Template Deployment Status
Its purpose is to create consistency between all 50+ states and territories in the USA. The templates are complex in the back end to enable some simplicity on the user side, but still allow all state/territories to be updated with a single change to a linked template. It was designed to be updated by people with little to no Wiki editing experience.
Parts of the template are common to all states, some parts are unique to individual states.
If you would like to see what it looks like, check out these pages already using the new template:
- Arizona - Complete
- California - Complete
- Connecticut - Complete
- Hawaii - Complete
- Maryland - Complete
- Michigan - Complete
- Nevada - Complete
Other states being tested now: EDIT: The test phase is officially over. The template is ready for use by any state that is so interested in using it.
All current state pages not yet on the new template have the template {{UpdateToStateTemplate}} already added. If you start working on a test page for the state template, consider updating the UpdateToStateTemplate template on the original page to include a link to the test page. The link above provides the information necessary to format the link. Do not include the full URL, just the page name like {{UpdateToStateTemplate|Arkansas/Test}}.
I updated the template to include two different tracking categories.
https://wiki.waze.com/wiki/Category:Upd ... e_template
- Pages in progress with a link to the test page.
https://wiki.waze.com/wiki/Category:Upd ... e_template
- Pages that do not yet have the test page linked in the template.
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Current Template Deployment Status