Tarlacac: Added question "Why use an HTML Table?"

2025-02-09T20:57:59Z

Added question "Why use an HTML Table?"

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== Why use an HTML Table? ==

Why is the table of updates using HTML instead of the Mediawiki table format? I see that it was converted in Nov 24, 2023 ([https://stationeers-wiki.com/index.php?title=Updates_Overview&oldid=18924 revision]) to HTML, but no reasoning is given in the summary. From my understanding, HTML tables cannot be made sortable through Mediawiki markup, nor can any other features that Mediawiki offers for tables be used. I propose changing this back to the Mediawiki table format and making it [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Sortable_tables sortable by column].

The Old School Runescape Wiki also uses Mediawiki and does their tables very well, in my opinion, through extensive use of [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Templates Mediawiki templates]. For example, check out the drop tables on the [https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Ammonite_Crab#Drops Ammonite Crab page] and go to "Edit source" to see how they used templates to do it and keep all pages standardized. I think the Stationeers wiki could also benefit from more templates and standardization, too. (or making it easier to find, if it does exist!)

Since this page is already pretty stale, I'll probably start working converting the table soon unless I hear otherwise.

--[[User:Tarlacac|Tarlacac]] ([[User talk:Tarlacac|talk]]) 14:57, 9 February 2025 (CST)

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Tarlacac: Added question "Why use an HTML Table?"