On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 20:33:54 -0400, Vicki Rosenzweig <vr(a)redbird.org> gave
utterance to the following:
At 12:06 PM 8/21/03 +1200, Richard Grevers wrote:
At the moment we run a Current events page which
covers an entire month.
We also have a page for each date which covers significant historical
events, with greater depth for recent events.
However, neither of these systems has the capacity to allow in depth
coverage of happenings.
At present the current events page has 10-20 stories per day, and even
at that rate the page is rather large. Which really limits it to the
sort of stories that are goign to make world news headlines bulletins,
and not the sort of place I feel is appropriate to add a smaller story
such as, for example, the New Zealand Govt. enacting a major revamp of
its Trade Mark laws.
(Of course not all news stories are tied to a significant date, but a
large proportion are).
So why don't we start a page for each actual day, for example
20th_August_2003 (please, no flame wars over the date format at this
stage!). At up to 30kb each these allow plenty of capacity for headlines
of news stories from all over the world, and the only links we would
need on the home page would be "Today" "This Week" and "This
Month".
I'd like to keep the quick-summary style current events entries.
I'm not saying that this should replace, just be in addition to.
Are the monthly current-events pages generated automatically, or by hand?
Each day on the monthly summary could link to the detail day page with
[[20th_August_2003|more stories]]
It would also allow for more sensible linking of
dates in articles -
instead of linking [[August_20|20th August]] [[2003]] or (whatever it
is) we could have a single link to that day's page.
Much of the time, what's important in those links is the year: that
someone was born in
(for example) 1877 tells us something about the times in which that
person grew up.
But still, the year pages are about the easiest to access in W. and there's
no reason not to have both linked somewhere int he article.
--
Richard Grevers
Between two evils always pick the one you haven't tried