FFXIV Wiki:Template Improvements and Requests

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Project description

General project page to track tasks regarding template improvements and template requests. Does not include adding template data to templates.

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In Progress

Last updated

19 June

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Tasks

• ☐ Update {{Ephemeral node list}} to use chained properties for item icon display (discord)
  Assignee: OnyxVindicator (talk)

Currently this template uses a semantic query where the result format uses the {{game icon}} template to fetch the icons for a list of items gathered from the node. This needs to be changed to use chaining properties to avoid duplicate semantic lookups, which increases performance time. Once completed, this might be useful as a reference for others when needing to do similar things for query results.

• ☐ Set up a Quasi Item template for non-inventory items (discord)

Currently several types of "items" use the Item template but are not true items because they never exist in the player's inventory, and thus do not behave like other items. Setting up a Quasi item template would allow us to simplify the Item template slightly, and also let us give more attention to these individual categories. These items typically only exist in specified types of instanced content.

• ☐ Clean up after adding obtainable parameter to infoboxes (discord)
  Assignee: Gurgum (talk)

• Create documentation for parameter changes
• Test whether the var can be passed to the obtainable parameter template
• Integrate w/ online store template

• ☐ Move loot tables of dungeon/alliance raid bosses to be defined in the duty page (discord)

Currently, they are defined in the individual enemy pages and called by {{Drops list}} in the duty pages. This is technically incorrect as the drops are from a treasure coffer after the boss, not from the boss itself. Also, it causes the list of drops to be ordered alphabetically when ordering by item type is better.

• ☐ Create navbox for Blue Mage pages
• ☐ Create navbox for Bozja pages
• ☐ Create navbox for Eureka pages
• ☐ Create navbox for extreme trial mounts
• ☐ Add FFXIV Collect links to mounts, minions, etc. (discord)
• ☐ Create image gallery template for non-SMW galleries (discord)

To standardize image galleries on pages such as NPCs/gear/items/etc. across the wiki. (essentially remove the need for constantly typing the gallery parameters each time)

• ☐ Condense all scrip exchange vendor lists into one vendor (discord)
• ☐ Revise {{stub}} and {{section-stub}} templates (discord)
• ☐ Update usage of gil template (discord)

"We have {{gil|123}} and similar templates to render currency amounts:  123. These aren't used consistently, particularly in the cost parameter of item infoboxes; this means the currency icon sometimes shows up on the right side of the number instead of the left. Eventually, for consistency, we should replace all uses of {{gil}} 123 and 123 {{gil}} across the whole wiki with {{gil|123}}." - Erin Umbreon (talk) 03:27, 13 August 2025 (UTC)

• ☐ Update {{Onlinestore}} template to link directly to online shop item (discord)
• ☐ Add template data to {{Section-stub}} and {{stub}} (discord)
  Assignee: Gurgum (talk)
• ☐ Create an equivalent of {{Recipe list island sanctuary}} for Free Company Crafting

Request:

"We should create an equivalent of Template:Recipe list island sanctuary for Free Company Crafting so that I can use Template:Recipe list on pages like Cryptomeria Lumber." - Freedom4556 (talk) 15:10, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

• ☐ Replace or improve STDT (discord)
  Assignee: Tempest Dawn (talk), Erin Umbreon (talk)
• ☐ Add gallery formatting option to {{enemies list}} (discord)
  Assignee: Gurgum (talk)
• ☐ Create a notice template for flagging outdated pages that adds them to a maintenance category (discord)