Guild Wars 2 Wiki:Projects/Skill Version History/Page format

Note: If you have a suggestion for improvement, go ahead and post it on this discussion page.

• Copy the suggested format from this page and create a sub-page of the skill/trait/effect called history, e.g. Fireball/history.
• Add all game updates that alter the skill/trait/effect (use the entries from the history table if there is one)
  • If an entry does not change the infobox in any way, example "Fixed a bug that...": Add the |minor = y parameter to the infobox. This will remove the infobox, but leave the update note intact.

Suggested format

If the skill/trait/effect has undergone changes that modify its mechanics:

{{Version history}}
or
{{Version history|pve = y}} (if the skill is listed as (PvE) and has a separate PvP version)
or
{{Version history|pvp = y}} (if the skill is listed as (PvP))

{{Skill infobox/historical}} or
{{Trait infobox/historical}} or
{{Effect infobox/historical}}

The /historical infoboxes are basically normal infoboxes with the exception that these do not create semantic properties and do not categorize pages, with the addition of three parameters: date, changes and minor. Omit these parameters for the initial version of the skill/trait/effect, for any changes include the date in YYYY-MM-DD format as well as changes as bullet points. Set the minor parameter to y if the update entry does not alter information that is displayed within the infobox template.

Example: Mirror Blade/history

If the skill/trait/effect has remained the same:

{{Version history|unchanged = y}}

{{Skill infobox/historical}} or
{{Trait infobox/historical}} or
{{Effect infobox/historical}}

See also

You can use some custom editor buttons that reduces the amount of copy and paste/typing by a fair bit, see User:Nefastu/JS/VersionHistory.js. You can add these by pasting the following code to your user JS page:

RLQ.push(function () {
    mw.loader.load( '/index.php?title=User:Nefastu/JS/VersionHistory.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript' );
});