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Default loadout wiki
The default loadout wiki (often called DLW) is a set of pages, scripts, and styles added to every new wiki.gg wiki (and most imports, depending on their choices) since late April 2024. Default loadout pages live at defaultloadout.
Advantages of using the DLW
Standardization across wiki.gg wikis comes with several benefits, including:
- You can more easily reuse code that other people have written for you and also apply future updates as needed when the MediaWiki software gets updates
- Your wiki will be more familiar for editors who have contributed to other wiki.gg wikis
- It will be easier to get help in the wiki.gg discord server
- We make it much easier to edit the CSS (see that page for a guide to the DLW setup)
Converting to the DLW
If you want your wiki converted to the DLW, please request this in the wiki.gg Discord server.
What to expect if someone converts your wiki to the DLW:
- Some minor interface spacing may change
- You will get icons in the sidebar tools section
- Some interface styles will probably function better in dark mode
- Users will have the choice of either light or dark mode, and the wiki will default based on users' individual preferences in their OS/browser
- If you have a strong preference for one theme or the other that can be set as the default, but we highly discourage doing this for a variety of accessibility reasons.
- A few pages may have broken styles here and there, and we'll need to fix them on a case-by-case basis as you point them out to us
But for the most part we'd encourage you to have the wiki converted as it will make future updates MUCH easier to apply and also give you access to the entire set of default templates' styles.
Updating your own CSS
Step 1
Please use Special:Export on the default loadout wiki and then Special:Import on your wiki. Note that Special:Import will import the latest revision of the DLW page to your wiki at the according time. If the page on your wiki was edited later, the import will not be the current page revision and the page will need to be edited manually to match the DLW page. You will need to update the following pages (you can copy-paste this list to the Export page):
MediaWiki:Gadgets MediaWiki:Gadgets/charInserts MediaWiki:Gadgets/charInserts/main.js MediaWiki:Gadgets/collapsibleSidebarSections MediaWiki:Gadgets/collapsibleSidebarSections/main.css MediaWiki:Gadgets/collapsibleSidebarSections/main.js MediaWiki:Gadgets/discordTemplate MediaWiki:Gadgets/discordTemplate/main.js MediaWiki:Gadgets/druid MediaWiki:Gadgets/druid/customEditMe.css MediaWiki:Gadgets/druid/doc MediaWiki:Gadgets/druid/mainReadonly.css MediaWiki:Gadgets/druid/variablesEditMe.css MediaWiki:Gadgets/druidScripts MediaWiki:Gadgets/druidScripts/main.js MediaWiki:Gadgets/hoverShowSpoilers MediaWiki:Gadgets/hoverShowSpoilers/main.css MediaWiki:Gadgets/imp MediaWiki:Gadgets/imp/customEditMe.css MediaWiki:Gadgets/imp/customMainReadonly.css MediaWiki:Gadgets/imp/variablesEditMe.css MediaWiki:Gadgets/luaImportLinks MediaWiki:Gadgets/luaImportLinks/main.js MediaWiki:Gadgets/mpEditLinks MediaWiki:Gadgets/mpEditLinks/main.css MediaWiki:Gadgets/mpEditLinks/main.js MediaWiki:Gadgets/purge MediaWiki:Gadgets/purge/main.js MediaWiki:Gadgets/spoilers MediaWiki:Gadgets/spoilers/main.js MediaWiki:Gadgets/themeColorEditor MediaWiki:Gadgets/themeColorEditor/main.js MediaWiki:Gadgets/uploadMultipleFiles MediaWiki:Gadgets/uploadMultipleFiles/main.js MediaWiki:Gadgets/vectorScripts MediaWiki:Gadgets/vectorScripts/main.js Template:Discord Module:Infobox Module:Infobox/doc Template:Navbox Template:Navbox/doc Module:Navbox Module:Navbox/doc Module:Navbox/Hooks Category:Main page templates Category:Main page boxes Category:Pages using IMP Module:Main page Template:Main page Template:Main page/doc Template:Main page box Template:Main page box/create Template:Main page box/end Template:Main page box/end/doc Template:Main page box/missing Template:Main page box/preload Template:Main page box/start Template:Main page box/start/doc Template:MP link Template:MP link/doc MediaWiki:Common.css/doc
After importing these pages, you may need to remove any content that was preloaded on MediaWiki:Common.js and MediaWiki:Vector.js when your wiki was created, as the default scripts are now included in gadgets.
Step 2
You will also need to update these pages, but you will want to carefully merge the styles into your existing pages without completely replacing them, or else your custom changes may get overwritten:
Step 3
The following pages should already be present on your wiki and should not require updating, but if something isn't working you can check:
MediaWiki:Gadgets/ranger MediaWiki:Gadgets/ranger/custom.css MediaWiki:Gadgets/ranger/main.css MediaWiki:Gadgets/ranger/variables.css Category:Categories for loading gadgets Category:Pages with spoilers Category:Pages with amboxes Category:Pages with colors Category:Pages with hatnotes Category:Pages with quotes Category:Pages with Discord embeds Category:Pages with DRUID infoboxes Category:Pages with navboxes