Template talk:StyleShadowMonster

Why exactly is this a different template from the other one? Shouldn't be too hard to code the template to show B instead of A when |mission=y and vice versa.

This template is the successor to the old Template:Shadow Monster. However, since the original template had a completely different look and different set of parameter names, I redesigned the template so that it would be similar to Template:StyleMonster. As for combining the two, it's possible, but I think it would make things more confusing in the long run for both maintaining the template and using it. Also, right now Template:StyleMonster is protected no one but the administrators can edit it. So I cannot be bold and fix some issues with it.

If there are changes you want to make to Template:StyleMonster, I can temporarily remove the protection on it. Just let me know. It's protected because it slows down the wiki when edited, or at least it used to.

So in other words, we will need to keep the number of revisions down to a minimum.

MediaWiki 1.17 does have some performance enhancements. But I don't know if it has anything to do with templates. How Wikipedia deals with this type of problem is to use cache files and not updated them immediately, but instead wait until traffic is low to do the update. We still have the purge function in case we need to update a single page. Still I like to see the site upgraded to at least 1.17, if not 1.18. Then we can use {{urlencode:string|WIKI}} to give a more consistent output. But I'm guessing that you have no control over that.

Go ahead and unlock the template. There are some updates I like to perform on it that I've already applied to this one. And while you are at it, can you do the following text replacements?

SkillFinal Hit = SkillFinalHit

SkillLightning Bolt = SkillLightningBolt

SkillIcespear = SkillIceSpear

SkillSelfdestruct = SkillSelfDestruct

SkillManadrain = SkillManaDrain

SkillManaReflector = SkillManaDeflector

SkillDragonRushAttack = SkillDragonDashAttack