New subject: Shrinking VFD (was I better shut up)

4 Aug 2005

I'm working with Visviva (on WikiProject Deletion sorting) to find a way
to sort all this out.

It's based on an idea developed at another encyclopedia wiki - one which
actually PAYS ME to flounder around and flummox things up!

It uses templates for transclusion. Details forthcoming, as it will take
at least the rest of this week to document and test this.

Note that I put "document it" first! I write software in the following
stages:

1. Document what the software is intended to do.
2. Write the system tests and unit tests for the source code.
3. Oh, yes, when we have time ... Write the source code!

I think this is discussed at greater length at Wikipedia, either at
[[refactoring]] or [[test-first development]]. It's amazing how many
bugs you can KEEP FROM coming to life, merely by writing the tests
first. It also reduces total development time. Oh, why did I ever quit
the Wikipedia Development Team? (Because you didn't want to learn PHP,
remember? Shut up, I'm not going to have a MPD on the mailing list! Why
not? JRM had one on your user talk page. Oh, please!)

Somewhat distractedly,

Uncle Ed
Developer Emeritus
Admin Provisional

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 Phroziac wrote:
  If VFD were kept, how about un-inlining the
closed vfds, and giving 
 links to them instead? Would make the CSDs clutter it somewhat less.

 Several people use combinations of Javascript and CSS which 
 allow this to be done. With one click they can hide all closed VFDs. 

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