[Wikipedia-l] Re: Please use

Sun Mar 2 07:44:34 UTC 2003

Bryan Derksen wrote:

>There is at least one area of wikipedia work that I do which I think HTML
>comments will come in very handy; HTML tables.  HTML tables can get quite
>complicated and messy, and being able to leave notes for future editors to
>help them add to the table is something I just don't see the talk: page as
>being very good for.

Another way that I like to use HTML-style comments with tables:
When a huge table (like those for US States, elements, etc)
confronts a newbie trying their hand at editing,
they may not realise how easy wiki editing is
when all that they can see is this mass of HTML code.
So I add a comment *before* the table (on its own line),
letting them know that they should skip past the table code
if they want to edit the ordinary running text.

-- Toby