The Sims Wiki:Development Portal

Welcome to The Sims Wiki Development Portal, this is where the community keeps up to date with minor updates and discussions about templates and general site maintenance.

The talk page is where you can announce what you've been up to, something you've noticed and to give other contributors a heads up!


 * Templates that may need to be updated for new releases:


 * Templates in Category:Game color templates
 * MGL
 * Vgcode
 * Vgcoderev
 * Vglogo
 * Vgseries


 * Checkgame
 * GetGameIcon
 * GetGameCat
 * GetFamilyGameCat
 * GetObjectCats
 * Eraicon
 * TS4icon (exclusively for TS4)

In short bullet format, newest at the top:
 * Fanon categories for Sims are now generated by Sim. 16:48, April 24, 2011 (UTC)
 * A Wikia update has made the topnav bar slightly wider, resulting in word wrap; stopgap measure has been taken, but input on topnav design is welcome on the talk page.
 * Heads Up: Be sure to include '-moz-border-radius:' and '-webkit-border-radius:' tags on rounded corner boxes and headers, so that rounded corners show up in more browsers than just Mozilla Firefox.
 * The  parameter in Infobox templates is now required (especially for expansions and console games) as it is being/will be used to generate categories.
 * Merged Resurrect-Sims 3 into Resurrect-in-game.
 * Changed the name of some Category:Sims by resurrectability categories to use "who" instead of "that"
 * Edited MediaWiki:Wikia.css and MediaWiki:Common.css for color consistency of navigation boxes and tables
 * Added As of and Update after to tag dated statements
 * Updated Template:Navbox, and added Template:Navbox subgroup, Template:Navbox with collapsible groups and Template:Navbox with columns
 * Added Succession templates
 * Update to Parthenon: added an optional width parameter. Number input is in percentage width; default value is 65% of screen width
 * Added new available awards toThe Sims Wiki:Awards; all images displayed in will automatically resize to 20px.
 * removed "yes" and "available" as buy types in
 * sign has been added to and  for Late Night Sims
 * Template:FamilyInfobox,Template:Family,Template:Family1,Template:Family2 &Template:Family3 now have the optional parameter economicstatus. 15:37, October 24, 2010 (UTC)
 * Template:Game now has optional parameter for theme music - see The Sims for an implementation example. 21:45, October 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * Special:UnusedFiles is now almost empty, so editors can start checking it regularly again. 06:23, September 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * Added (UTC) at the end ofTemplate:Unsigned so you don't have to. 23:20, September 1, 2010 (UTC)
 * Please join the discussion onTemplate talk:Era 23:18, September 1, 2010 (UTC)
 * Created The Sims Wiki:Templates/usernotifications16:59, September 1, 2010 (UTC)
 * Created Help:Editnotice. 16:19, September 1, 2010 (UTC)
 * Started Project Skin 21:11, August 25, 2010 (UTC)
 * Added Category:Customized help pages 03:49, August 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * Added The Sims Wiki:Special pages 14:00, August 17, 2010 (UTC)

Ready to be launched and put to use:
 * Which 20:02, April 23, 2011 (UTC)
 * Checkfns and Checkuns 00:38, March 12, 2011 (UTC)
 * As of and Update after 06:04, February 17, 2011 (UTC)
 * Navbox subgroup, Navbox with collapsible groups and Navbox with columns 06:04, February 17, 2011 (UTC)
 * 22:29, December 12, 2010 (UTC)
 * 20:03, November 23, 2010 (UTC)
 * for bars, lounges & nightclubs, 22:33, November 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * 01:10, September 21, 2010 (UTC)
 * 23:41, September 20, 2010 (UTC)
 * 12:24, September 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * 16:27, September 2, 2010 (UTC)
 * 13:23, August 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * 14:34, August 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * 13:51, August 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * 12:59, August 26, 2010 (UTC)
 * 12:19, August 26, 2010 (UTC)
 * 18:47, August 25, 2010 (UTC)

We would like you opinions on the following templates:
 * Era
 * Resolved/mini
 * Venue

Links to things you may want to use:
 * Recent template changes
 * The Sims Wiki:Special pages
 * Category:Templates
 * The Sims Wiki:Templates