Forum:Tab Implementation

Hello, fellas. For all of you new editors coming in, and the mods, I'd like to get some consensus before we start transitioning the pages to tab format. Obviously this is a massive change so I'll ask for the input of the community first, from mods and notable active users The_Maverick013 HPZ - O.N.E. @Lemostr00 @SZ95 @ArxisOne @Agarfinkel

I have used the Shigeru Aoba as a testing ground, currently in my sandbox:


 * This first test uses the older TabViewer extension, outlied here

User:FelipeFritschF/Sandbox


 * This second test users the newer Tabber extension, detailed here here

User:FelipeFritschF/Sandbox2

Tabviewer in fact simply embeds separate articles, and I'm not sure how we could stop people from simply accessing those separately and "lose" the rest. I also seem unable to link to the Gallery articles from it, though I haven't really try. Either way, seems both solutions will require to edit them in.

As far as I can tell, Tabber is slightly less glitchy, and unifies the actual body of the articles in the same page. This is obviously better for Fandom's SEO efforts, and for us editors it'd simply mean adding a couple of lines to existing articles to separate them into tabs, though the Rebuild articles would need to be moved back.

With that said, I still have some questions:

I think not, because of the following question... I'd rather keep them all under a Main page and simply relegate Rebuild (and possibly Manga) to a separate tab, plus a unified one for Gallery. At the very most, one tab for Other Media, since those vary wildly across characters already, so it'd be strange for some characters to have 10 tabs and some to have only 1-3.
 * 1) Should the Gallery section, now moved to a tab, be kept separate for Rebuild articles also?
 * 1) Should we separate "Other media" (Angelic Days, Anima etc) into addititional tabs?

I'd like to get these done soon (should have thought of it before the movie release...) but I do appreciate your input. FelipeFritschF (talk) 07:23, 19 August 2021 (UTC)


 * I tried it with the Asuka articles at User:FelipeFritschF/Sandbox3 and realized both implementations have problems... Tabber inserts a layer in front of the entire article, making visual edits impossible. Tabview doesn't have this issue, but it'd require a "base" article to THEN link the NGE, RoE AND Gallery and Gallery (RoE) ones to avoid it having a duplicate tab that doesn't even function properly.. You can see these problems in these now undone revisions of the Aoba articles: 1 and 2


 * I'm not sure that'd be a good idea.FelipeFritschF (talk) 08:09, 19 August 2021 (UTC)