WoW Tooltips

By michal frackowiakmichal frackowiak

Description

If you have a wiki about World of Warcraft, a popular MMORPG game, or just writing something that involves in-game experience, there are at least a few ways to add nice tooltips for game items, quests and NPCs whenever you link to sites like WOWDB, Wowhead or Thottbot.

Read more about the tooltips on the following pages:

The idea is to put a small JavaScript file into your pages that will check all links leading to items/quests/… on one of the above sites and this will add nice tooltips to them.

WOWDB tooltip support:

Code

[[embed]]
<script src="http://www.wowdb.com/js/extooltips.js"></script>
[[/embed]]

[http://www.wowdb.com/item.aspx?id=19879 Alex's Test Beatdown Staff]

In action

Alex's Test Beatdown Staff

Wowhead tooltip support

Code

[[embed]]
<script src="http://www.wowhead.com/widgets/power.js"></script>
[[/embed]]

[http://www.wowhead.com/?item=20665 Abyssal Leather Leggings]

In action

Abyssal Leather Leggings

Thottbot tooltip support

Code

[[embed]]
<script src="http://i.thottbot.com/power.js"></script>
[[/embed]]

[http://thottbot.com/i9647 Failed Flying Experiment]

In action

Failed Flying Experiment

Put the [[embed]] into _template

If you do not want to include the same [[embed]]...[[/embed]] in every page, you can add this to the category templates, i.e. special pages that define, how pages from a given category will look like. E.g. for a category quest: you should edit the page quest:_template so that all pages from the category (like quest:kill-boars) will use that template. For a default category (page names without colon) you should edit the _template page.

Once you create the _template page, put the following code inside:

[[embed]]
<script src="http://www.wowdb.com/js/extooltips.js"></script>
[[/embed]]
[[embed]]
<script src="http://www.wowhead.com/widgets/power.js"></script>
[[/embed]]
[[embed]]
<script src="http://i.thottbot.com/power.js"></script>
[[/embed]]

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[[include :snippets:if END]]



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