Board Thread:Wiki Running/@comment-27028390-20150130231609/@comment-3225604-20150131111209

Imamadmad wrote: Wildoneshelper wrote: My only concern is the emoticons, but that doesn't really matter lol. I hope Wikia can add emoticons to forums. We can add emoticons in the form of templates. It's quite easy! Just create a template at the name you want to use to call the emoticon and add the image to the template and voila! You can then call the emoticon from the template while writing in the forums, on message walls, in chat, on talk pages, and technically they would work in the mainspace but that would be discouraged. I think you can actually use a piece of code so that the templates don't work in the mainspace, but I wouldn't bother with it unless the templates are abused. Only concern solved!

The another concern of using templates is that it really will add more inconvenience of the complex coding. I think I can just create it using a single template alone, but then we have tons of emoticons in the wiki and then changing their codes to normal wiki style of coding will be really time-consuming, unless a bot can help us do the job. I really hope Wikia can create a "toolbar" (similar as the toolbar for adding symbols) of emoticons with the same codes as the chat emoticons, so that we don't really need to move all the codes of our emoticons to the templates and changing them one by one. Mind you, most of the images of the emoticons actually do not come from this wiki alone. Therefore, construction of an emoticon template will need a lot of manpower and time, unless CzechBot has a way to do it.

Nonetheless, I think it's not quite necessary to add an emoticon template since we can just add memes to comments and forum replies alone, which lowers the need of emoticons in first place.