Classic WoW Wiki:Development

See Portal:Interface customization or WoW Development for information about WoW development.

This is a refererece for the current state development on the WoWWiki wiki site itself. The 'talk page' for this page is intended to host active discussion as needed during wiki development. Regular standards for content are not necessarily expected here, as to encourage correct and timely information, however should be followed for the talk page. See Portal_talk:World_of_Warcraft for Portal breakdown, details and specifics. Picutes screen shots or other media can be placed here Development/Media.

Important information

 * Portal:Main and other key pages, are a protected pages and can only be edited by admins.
 * Portal:World of Warcraft, sub-portals, and high-volume pages are semi-protected pages, and can only be edited by established editors.
 * WoWWiki namespace is for content pages for wiki itself, which is repurposed from the old portal page namespace.
 * Template namespace is for other 'non-content' infrastructure.
 * This frees the rest of the main namespace to be actual content for WoW, and show properly for search engines.


 * Major portals or WoWWiki entry points, are
 * Portal:Main - portal where initial redirect goes, or the 'Main Page'. See Portal Development.
 * ...and other portals found in menu on main portal, like: Portal:World of Warcraft - portal about the original wow
 * WoW Development - top of the WoW developement 'references' tree, and a party to Portal:Interface customization.
 * Major client code pages are
 * MediaWiki:Common.js - site wide JavaScript
 * MediaWiki:Wikia.js - site wide JavaScript, intended to be a part of the default Wikia theme
 * MediaWiki:Wikia.css - site wide CSS, intended to be a part of the default Wikia theme. and the only way to change or add CSS
 * Major wikified extension based user templates are
 * TwitterFeed - custom twitter extension
 * Tabber - custom tabber extension
 * Important extension and infrastrure pieces are
 * MediaWiki:FloatingToc - custom TOC popout extension
 * MediaWiki:MapLightbox - custom WoW map and WoW map popout extension