FFXIV Wiki:Improve dialogue formatting
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- Project description
- Improve the formatting of quest dialogue with a new template, {{Dialogue}}.
- Status
- In progress
- Members
- Dr Agon (talk), Erin Umbreon (talk), Onyx Vindicator (talk)
- Discussion
- Talk page, Discord
To-dos
{{Dialogue}} is mostly ready for use; slowly rolling out to certain quest pages for testing and feedback. Will eventually be backfilled to all existing quest pages via script; in the meantime please don't apply the template to existing pages in bulk.
Most of what's left is just me implementing the rest of the owl, but early feedback is always welcome. Erin Umbreon (talk) 03:15, 16 January 2026 (UTC)
Needed features
- Nested dialogue choices (probably using
>>syntax but haven't worked out the details yet) - Conditional dialogue (based on race/gender/jobs/etc)
- Expand forename/surname placeholder system to also let us do inline gender-specific terms, maybe? or figure out something for those at least
- Figure out how we want to handle optional dialogue for when you interact with a character but they say nothing and there's just a system message
Other stuff
- Make sure accessibility is okay
- Tweaks to make copypasted dialogue more useful
- Add an invisible colon after speaker names
- Get more feedback on appearance
- hello person reading this please take a look at what we have and let us know what you think on the talk page or in discord thanks