How to Use the Infobox and AgeInfobox for Articles

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This page is a tutorial for the Infobox and AgeInfobox templates. While the two are visually similar, they both have their quirks when using the same image for thumbnails due to the way the OpenUru wiki handles images. I'll give you a brief description of how to utilize them for New Greeters articles, and provide a workaround for the aforementioned image resizing quirks.

Using Template:Infobox

The Infobox template can be used for description markups or summaries. The generalized parameters are described in detail here. The basic parameters can be filled to describe or summarize any article, object, or location. I'll give you a simple example using the Greeters logo:

{{Infobox|title=Greeters Logo|subtitle=The Guild of New Greeters, for a Better D'ni|image=http://assets.openuru.org/wiki/newgreeters/dniGuilds-150x150.png|
tn_image=http://assets.openuru.org/wiki/newgreeters/dniGuilds-150x150.png|heading1=Guild Type|value1=Greeters|heading2=Website|value2=http://newgreeters.openuru.org/}}

This code produces the following:

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Greeters Logo
The Guild of New Greeters, for a Better D'ni
Guild Type	Greeters
Website	http://newgreeters.openuru.org/

Using Template:AgeInfobox

The AgeInfobox template can be used for descriptions of ages. The generalized parameters are described in detail here. I'll give you a simple example using Ae'gura:

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Ae'gura
Written by Ri'neref
Ae'gura's ecosystem: Ecosystem of D'ni
Type	Large Age
Connected places	Many
Restoration phase	Open
Released	November, 11th, 2003
Journal	Many
Link-in points	Many

Using the Infobox Workaround

When the image used is too large for the thumbnail, this workaround markup code can be used:

{| style="float: right; width: 20em; background-color: #FFEECC; border: 1px dashed #FFCC66; padding: 0.5em;"
! colspan="2" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1em;" | [http://"URLHEREx2" http://"URLHEREx2"]
|-
| colspan="2" style="font-size: 1.3em; text-decoration: underline; text-align: center;" | Description Box
|-
| colspan="2" style="font-size: 0.95em; text-align: center;" | Sub Discription1
|-
| colspan="2" style="font-size: 0.95em; text-align: center;" | Sub Discription2
|-
| colspan="2" style="font-size: 0.95em; text-align: center;" | Further Info
|-
! Type
| Fill this in
|-
! Released
| MM,DD,YY
|-
! Custom Parameter1
| Custom Discription1
|-
! Custom Parameter2
| Custom Discription2
|-
|}

This code works the same way as the Infobox template, except the image in question does not have to be re-sized to fit in the box. Here is what the code above looks like when filled with information detailing Ae'gura:

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Ae'gura
Written by Ri'neref
Written arround 0 BE
Eco System of D'ni
Type	Large Age (Part of D'ni/Earth)
Restoration phase	Open
Released	November 11, 2003
Journal	Many
Link-in points	Many