Help:Development stages

Development stages are little indicators placed next to a link to a book or a page to indicate its progress, as reviewed at a certain date. They also are used on a book's main page to indicate the book's progress as a whole. They help readers identify comprehensive content, while drawing editors' attention to pages needing work.

Quart stages There are two templates that create the quart stages indicators: {{stage}} and {{stage short}}. They take the development stage as their first argument and a date as an optional second: Markup Displays as [[Main Page]] {{stage|100%|Jan 11, 2005}} Main Page [[Main Page]] {{stage short|100%|Jan 11, 2005}} Main Page If the second parameter is not included in the {{stage}} template the date will not be displayed. Deci-stages The {{decistage}} template creates an indicator with ten stages: Markup Displays as [[Main Page]] {{decistage|10|Jan 11, 2005}} Main Page

Book completion status

Readers browsing through a certain subject area or classification often want to view books that are complete or closer to completion. In order to indicate the level of completion for a book, add {{status|<PROGRESS>}} to a book's main page, where <PROGRESS> is one of the following: 0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, or 100%. Don't abuse this to try to make your book more popular; misleading readers will cause them to leave in frustration.

Use	To put a book in
{{status|100%}}	Completed books
{{status|75%}}	Books nearing completion
{{status|50%}}	Half-finished books
{{status|25%}}	Partly developed books
{{status|0%}}	Freshly started books

TODO list

Sometimes it's very hard to figure out what should be added in one page rather than in another. If you evaluate a page to an incomplete stage, you know what is missing. So don't forget to fill a TODO list. Add {{Todo|<MISSING>}} to the page, where <MISSING> is a text describing what should be added to make the page complete.