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
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-----
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[mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Sam
Fentress (Asbestos)
Sent: Tuesday, 20th December 2005 8:41 PM
To: preparing(a)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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