Template:Payphone/doc

How to Use the Payphone Template

This page explains the {{Payphone}} template. Most payphone pages are bot-seeded — you'll only need this page if you're hand-editing or hand-creating a page.

Page title convention

Page titles use the Telstra cabinet ID, in the form Payphone:03524808X2. The bot also creates a redirect from Payphone:1234 (the loadtalk numeric ID) so links from the game site keep working.

Page structure

A bot-seeded payphone page looks like this:

{{Payphone
| phone                 = 0436020131
| cab                   = 02624108X2
| id                    = 4
... (more bot-supplied params)
}}

== Description ==
<!-- Short description, history, anything worth recording. -->

== Location ==
<!-- Where is it? Nearby landmarks, street corners, accessibility. -->

== Gallery ==
<!-- Upload photos via Special:Upload then embed [[File:Foo.jpg|thumb]] -->

The template renders the static infobox (right rail) and a live Status section pulled from the game on every page view. The Description, Location, and Gallery sections are plain wikitext on the page itself — click any section's edit link to edit that section directly.

Bot-populated parameters

These come from the game API. Don't edit them — they'll be overwritten on the next resync run.

Parameter	Description
phone	Phone number you'd dial.
cab	Telstra cabinet ID — also the page title.
id	Internal loadtalk numeric ID. Used to embed the live status widget.
address, state, postcode	Postal address fields.
lat, lng	Coordinates.
status	active or inoperable.
tty_messaging_enabled	In-game flag — whether the Baudot message board is enabled at this phone.
wifi_hotspot, card_payment, incoming_calls, tty_hardware, adsl, fibre, lte	Telstra-reported capabilities. Each is yes, no, or unknown.

Categories

The template auto-categorises pages based on the bot-supplied parameters:

• Category:Payphones — root category, every page.
• Category:Payphones in NSW / VIC / QLD / WA / SA / TAS / ACT / NT — by state.
• Category:Wi-Fi hotspot payphones, Category:Card payphones, Category:Incoming-call payphones, Category:TTY-equipped payphones, Category:ADSL payphones, Category:Fibre payphones, Category:LTE payphones — by capability.
• Category:Payphones with messaging enabled — when the in-game Baudot board is on.
• Category:Inoperable payphones — when status is inoperable.

Tips

• The live "Status" section pulls owner / capture state from the game on every page view, with a 5-minute cache.
• To add references, use standard MediaWiki <ref> tags and add <references /> at the bottom of the page.