User blog comment:LadyAlys/"Information for Developers" Sections on Content Pages/@comment-24838008-20150516211243

 Dear Alys! Thank you very much for giving a start to this process. Many of us would really like to see some additional information on game mechanics and comments on the code of HabitRPG.

 I’d like to make a small suggestion regarding the question of placing the section. I really like the point you mentioned: “the wiki is written for users, not for the coders”. Having this in mind, I believe that newbies, ordinary users and gamers, may be confused and puzzled if they see some deep information and fail to understand why it’s here and what it means. What’s worse I can imagine new sort of questions in the Tavern and guild chats (not the aspiring ones) like: “why is it calculated this way and not the other way”; or “from the code I can tell that it should be this way, but it turns out quite the opposite way”. Please, don’t get me wrong – I’m not against such questions, but I believe that a user should first feel the game and only than try to investigate its mechanics.

 So, what I’d suggest is placing information for developers below the Known bugs section – and hiding it in collapsible div, maybe even of some special template “Information for Developers”. In such a way, (1) users will still find information about bugs at the bottom of the page; (2) technical information will be hidden from those, who shouldn’t be sidetracked by it; (3) those who are interested in code will always know where to look for it and find it clearly marked; (4) special div may be used perhaps to track the pages if there’s a need to create a category “For developers”. All in all, I guess this is what spoilers are meant for.

 The only drawback I see is the issue I’ve mentioned before – spoilers and collapsible elements are not processed on the mobile layout and thus always visible. Possible solution was found by @Anothersphynx (@hairlessbear) here: http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:555877 and it involves changing the Handheld.css of the wiki (a particular wiki, not wikia on the whole).