> One fix that developers could do, and which would address 93.6% of the
> problem is to move the template editing out-of-normal-editing-space.
>
> Disentangle the template code, from the editable text.
>
> W
There is a small army of editors constantly working on and, hopefully,
improving template
One fix that developers could do, and which would address 93.6% of the
problem is to move the template editing out-of-normal-editing-space.
Disentangle the template code, from the editable text.
W
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On 30 December 2010 08:55, Stephanie Daugherty wrote:
> Any solution that calls for endless templates is a bad one socially as
> well as technically, and at the point where you even consider
> something on that scale you should probably be consulting developers
> for a better way, like a way to do
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> From: Stephanie Daugherty
> To: fredb...@fairpoint.net; Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
>
> Sent: Thu, December 30, 2010 2:55:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Template Overkill
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> Where there exists a clean elegent technical solution
On 30 December 2010 08:55, Stephanie Daugherty wrote:
> Any solution that calls for endless templates is a bad one socially as
> well as technically, and at the point where you even consider
> something on that scale you should probably be consulting developers
> for a better way
> This goes for
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> From: Fred Bauder
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> Sent: Thu, December 30, 2010 2:16:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Template Overkill
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> > What project are you speaking of? At en.WS the entire navigation
> > structure
Where there exists a clean elegent technical solution to a social
problem then it wasnt really a social problem to begin with.
Where it comes to something like ws maybe a tool to do an outline
grouping a large multiarticle document into a single coherent one is
whats really needed.
Any solution t
> What project are you speaking of? At en.WS the entire navigation
> structure of
> how to move between Chapters within a book is encoded in templates. I
> can't
> imagine how they could be scapped.
>
> Birgitte SB
>
[[Moby Dick, chapter 2]] might work.
Fred Bauder
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While i generally agree that its too much templates do have their
place. The interface for using a template needs to be easier (see all
the recent wysiwy* traffic), but used right they can even make the
text easier to edit.
The problem therefore is to make sure they are used right, and that
proble
> Most of the templates in our project, imho are just more clutter.
>
> The number of people who know how to use any particular template, can
> probably be counted with a box of marbles. However when others see the
> templates, they just shy away, they don't bother to try to learn them.
>
> If we
; how to move between Chapters within a book is encoded in templates. I
> > can't
> > imagine how they could be scapped.
> >
> > Birgitte SB
> >
> >
> > - Original Message
> > > From: "wjhon...@aol.com"
> > > To: fou
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> > Sent: Tue, December 28, 2010 9:46:56 PM
> > Subject: [Foundation-l] Template Overkill
> >
> > Most of the templates in our project, imho are just more clutter.
> >
> > The number of people who know how to use any particular template, can
> > probably be c
> To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Sent: Tue, December 28, 2010 9:46:56 PM
> Subject: [Foundation-l] Template Overkill
>
> Most of the templates in our project, imho are just more clutter.
>
> The number of people who know how to use any particular template, can
> probably be co
Most of the templates in our project, imho are just more clutter.
The number of people who know how to use any particular template, can
probably be counted with a box of marbles. However when others see the
templates, they just shy away, they don't bother to try to learn them.
If we want to ma
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