User blog comment:RRabbit42/Change ideas for the wiki/@comment-961279-20111211190526

A lot of work has just been done to overhaul episode navigation at the bottom of a page. Right now, we have five templates per season, like these for season 22: Season 22, Season 22 A, Season 22 C, Season 22 Q and Season 22 R.

Every time a new episode came out, those five templates had to be updated together. This didn't always get done, so we wound up with duplicate pages and redirections when someone fixed the spelling or punctuation.

Those have been consolidated into one template and you just specify what type of page you need.

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There's a second template that it uses that contains the list of episodes so there's still more than one template that has to be updated as a season progresses. But the main season template, Template:Season 23 for our current season, only needs to be updated only when we need to link to the next season's first episode (which will be season 24 next year).

I still need to do a little bit of work to have the template leave the "next episode" area blank when we don't have that info yet, and I need to make the same kind of changes to the Ullman Shorts templates.

I'm using our bot right now to make the changes and then I can go in and delete the old templates. The 130 templates we have right now will become 52 and future updates will be a LOT easier.