[WikiEN-l] A newbie on article prefill templating

Tue Dec 20 20:04:24 UTC 2005

Actually, while I don't think that it needs to go as far as having a wizard,
I'd be for a bit of New article Edit Box re-structuring:

How about a box that asks for the articles category (with a link beside it
taking you to a pop-up category navigation) and a check-box for stubs?

We could also have a series of boxes for See Also's, External Links and
References. Maybe if the user doesn't put in a references, their given a
pop-up box letting them know that they really ought to use them.

Of course, this would be rather more work for the developers than simply
adding some text to the edit box.

Thoughts?

Sam

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Asbestos
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On 12/20/05, Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org
> > [mailto:wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Sam
> > Fentress (Asbestos)
> > Sent: Tuesday, 20th December 2005 8:41 PM
> > To: preparing at psu.edu; English Wikipedia
> > Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] A newbie on article prefill templating
> >
> >
> > 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?
>
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