Jens Frank wrote in part:
For some articles, we use those nice tables. E.g. http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Beryllium&action=edit It starts like this:
[[de:Beryllium]][[eo:Berilo]][[nl:beryllium]][[pl:Beryl]][[fr:BĂ©ryllium]]
<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="right"> <tr><td colspan="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"> <table align="center" border="0"> <tr><td colspan="2" align="center">[[Lithium]] - '''Beryllium''' - [[Boron]]</td> </tr> <tr><td rowspan="3" valign="center"> <br>'''Be'''<br>[[Magnesium|Mg]] <br> <br> </td></tr> <tr><td align="center">[[image:Be-TableImage.png|Click for description]]<br> [[Periodic table/Standard Table|Full table]]</td></tr> </table> </td></tr>
Those articles are not easy to edit. They are frightening.
This is just a stopgap, but I'd like to encourage people to write this:
"[[de:Beryllium]][[eo:Berilo]][[nl:beryllium]][[pl:Beryl]][[fr:BĂ©ryllium]] " "<!-- To edit the text of this page, skip past the ugly table markup below.--> " "<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="right"> "<tr><td colspan="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"> "<table align="center" border="0"> "<tr><td colspan="2" align="center">[[Lithium]] - '''Beryllium''' - [[Boron]]</td> "</tr> "<tr><td rowspan="3" valign="center"> <br>'''Be'''<br>[[Magnesium|Mg]] <br> <br> </td></tr> "<tr><td align="center">[[image:Be-TableImage.png|Click for description]]<br> "[[Periodic table/Standard Table|Full table]]</td></tr> "</table> "</td></tr>
It at least tells people that there ''is'' text that they can edit easily, even though it doesn't fix things to make the table itself easily editable. Hopefully some new editors won't be scared off as quickly in that case.
-- Toby