[Wikisource-l] Wikisource poem extension - but the intro text?

Tue Jul 25 00:50:06 UTC 2006

Sorry for crossposting this. It felt wikisource-l was the most appropriate
list, but since the topic has been discussed a lot in wikitech-l it seemed
reasonable to post it there, too.

I agree the poem-tag makes life easier on wikisource, it saves loads of time
when putting poems there. I wonder if it would be a good idea to add another
semantic tag - that for the "intro" text, before the actual poem. Sometimes
there is none but usually there is the name of the poem and/or the name of
the author, and sometimes a little extra info.

Att small wikisources, this little intro - like most texts on the wikis -
are often in plain text. When the poem tag is applied, it does not look so
good. The result is like this
http://sv.wikisource.org/wiki/Till_min_far
With no difference in indentation or font, it is kind of difficult to see
where the intro text ends and the poem starts especially if we imagine a
very short intro. It is not appealing to the eye. One could add extra blank
lines, that would work, but on most wikis that method seems to be frowned
upon. English wikisource has a set of templates for fomatting the "intro"
part - here is an example.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/That_Day
So now, at least at Swedish Wikisource experiments with similar templates
have been started. That is an option, but adding a semantic tag resulting in
the need of templates seems a bit awkward to me.

What is the solution here, for the wikis that do not already have these
elaborate templates? One could do some wiki-specific adaptation to the poem
tag, so that it adds blank spaces above the poem - that is however not so
nifty when there actually is no "intro". Should we ask to get another
semantic tag for the intro? Or is templates, like at English Wikisource, the
major solution?

/habj
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