[WikiEN-l] A newbie on article prefill templating

Tue Dec 20 19:55:21 UTC 2005

Is it worth having different templates for different sorts of articles?
Is it worth having a wizard?  "Is this an article about a person, place,
event...?" "So it's a person.  Are they alive or dead?" "Great, what
field are they most known in?" "Sport, eh? American, British, Jamaican?"
Take that far enough and it could spit out half the article, with
relevant templates, categories, stubs and pointers for you to read the
guidelines for that type of project.

Is this the road we want to go down?

Steve

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> [mailto:wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Sam 
> Fentress (Asbestos)
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> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] A newbie on article prefill templating
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> 
> Well, just to get the ball rolling, I created a possible 
> version at [[Wikipedia:New article template]] (or should it 
> have been on meta?). We're you thinking of something along 
> those lines?