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
-- Asbestos http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Asbestos
On 12/20/05, Steve Bennett stevage@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@Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Sam Fentress (Asbestos) Sent: Tuesday, 20th December 2005 8:41 PM To: preparing@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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