The current situation with table creation on Wikipedia/media is not the
best
Yes, I firmly concur with Ian here. Table creation for new editors is a
skill that could definitely be said to be one of the most difficult to pick
up. We may need to look into inviting any editor with the necessary coding
abilities to author an extension that provides some sort of wizard facility
for table creation; or, failing that, take a look into revamping the
existing series of documentation pages we have on enwiki for all matters
table-related.
AGK
2008/9/16 Ian A. Holton <poeloq(a)gmail.com>
I'm quite surprised nobody replied to this -
unless this was a crosspost to
another list related to the software itself and replies are flowing in
there.
I must agree with Will: The current situation with table creation on
Wikipedia/media is not the best, especially for casual editors. Knol does
in
deed make it a lot more simple and maybe we should take a few
"inspirations"
from them.
-Ian
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 1:14 PM, <WJhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
So being at-heart a consummate traitor, I've
been toying around at Knol,
and
also at Google Sites and at Pbwiki. I was just updating a page tonight
on
my Knol user-page when I realized that Knol has a
rather nice "table
creator/editor". I've used it a few times, but it was always sort-of
"blah whatever"
until I had to tonight actually move
cell-contents-with-their-associated-LINKS around in a table.
It was... quite simple, with no hidden problems. Can we not get that in
the
next MediaWiki upgrade go-round ? It would so simplify the
beautification
of tabular data and ease the transition for
editors who can't quite get
their
minds wrapped around our current bizarre and unique table-coding. The
number
of editors we have who understand how to create and maintain in-wiki
tables
is quite minute, and this WYSIWIG editor just makes it all very
transparent
and easy.
Will Johnson
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