[WikiEN-l] Presentation to readers

[Ray Saintonge]

Andrew Gray wrote:

>On 27/02/07, darthvader1219 at gmail.com wrote:
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>>On 2/26/07, William Pietri wrote:
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>>>Another possibility that occurs to me. Could we do a little stylesheet
>>>and JavaScript magic to hide the specific warning templates unless
>>>people click on something in the {{notverygood}} box? That would let us
>>>keep them as part of the main article, but make them invisible to casual
>>>readers. Further magic would make them by default available to logged-in
>>>editors.
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>>I really like the idea of hiding the specific warning templates in the
>>{{notverygood}} box at the top of the article. It could work similarly
>>to {{Template:WikiProjectBanners}}.
>>It would have some standard message concerning how the article is not quite
>>up to par, with all the specifics hidden inside it. It would be far more
>>visually attractive for those articles that have three or four maintenance
>>templates at the top, but would still keep those templates on the main
>>article page.
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>Hmm. I like it.
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>"The Wikipedia community has identified issues with the quality of
>this article; [click here] to show more specific details or [see the
>talk page] for discussion regarding the issue"
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>First link brings a dropdown as with the banners template; second
>takes you to talk. If you were particularly clever, "the quality"
>could be changed on the fly to reflect the specific tagging...
>
I think basically that our software has not kept up with the kind of 
innovation that has been suggested in messages like this.  Our current 
developers are doing what they can, but keeping the site operational 
needs to be a priority.  I can imagine all manner of schemes for 
evaluating the worth of an article, but I'm totally incapable of coming 
to terms with the software needed to make it happen.  Such conceptually 
simple ideas as single login, improved search functions, and stable 
version have all been kicking around for a while, and I often wonder 
whether it's the technology or the politics that is holding these ideas up.

Ec