Help:Development stages

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Development stages are little indicators placed next to a link to a book or a module to indicate its progress, as reviewed at a certain date. They help readers identify comprehensive content, while drawing editors' attention to modules 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 100% developed  as of Jan 11, 2005 (Jan 11, 2005)
[[Main Page]] {{stage short|100%|Jan 11, 2005}}
Main Page 100% developed  as of Jan 11, 2005
Wikibook Development Stages
Sparse text 00%.svg Developing text 25%.svg Maturing text 50%.svg Developed text 75%.svg Comprehensive text: 100%.svg


Deci-stages

The {{decistage}} template creates an indicator with a ten stages:

Markup Displays as
[[Main Page]] {{decistage|10|Jan 11, 2005}}
Main Page Development stage: 100% (as of Jan 11, 2005)