[Wikipedia-l] generic markup and miscoded templates

Thu Sep 26 11:24:14 UTC 2002

I'm happy too. Everyone wins! Can we do this easily?

Stephen G.

--- Toby Bartels <toby+wikipedia at math.ucr.edu> wrote:
> Tom Parmenter wrote:
> 
> >I have started a conversation in [[Wikipedia
> talk:WikiProject
> >U.S. Counties]] about the fact that the templates
> for country, state,
> >county, and city all use the wrong markup, that is,
> sections headed
> >with === instead of ==.  I think this is important,
> but god knows
> >there are going to be a lot of erroneous articles. 
> I wish I'd noticed
> >before there were so many counties done by the
> redoubtable Ram-Man.
> 
> I think that having good HTML produced is moderately
> important.
> And I think that making editing easy and intuitive
> is very important.
> What is not important, however, is that the number
> of equal signs
> in the latter match up precisely with the number in
> the tag in the former.
> 
> When rendering a page, we should first measure all
> of the header markups
> and then render the shortest as <h2>, the next as
> <h3>, and so on.
> (Anybody that really needs a header of a specific
> size
> can still create this by putting the HTML tag in
> directly.)
> Then you can start with == or ===, or even = or
> =========,
> and it will still render as <h2> if it's the
> shortest one.
> 
> Best of all, the code to do this detection already
> exists in PediaWiki;
> it's being used to decide what style of automatic
> header numbering to use.
> (Not that I've ever looked at the code), but this
> should be an easy one.
> 
> Tom is happy, because good HTML is being produced.
> [I forget who the principal opponent is] is happy,
> because current articles don't have to be rewritten.
> At least I hope that y'all're happy; responses?
> 
> 
> -- Toby
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