I didn't solicited a design class ;o) I will use small bar in the french wikipedia and if you don't want to create a WikiSyntax for this I will still using HTML, no problem for me. But I don't understand your argument that give to wikipedian more features will make wikipedia more confuse and chaotic... (same argument that for anchors). You don't trust wikipedians ? Perhaps you ran into trouble on english wikipedia that we don't know on the french one. But, just with basic features, it is possible to create fully unreadable articles ;o) I preview the answer but... can't we add features for one wikipedia in particular (french one for exemple) if all those wikipedians agree ?
Aoineko
On Mit, 2003-01-29 at 06:28, Guillaume Blanchard wrote:
Bonjour!
The bars drown with ---- are good to separate completely different part
of a
text, but we may enjoy to use also small bars (for exemple 100 pixel
width)
to separate paragraph.
Sorry, but that's a bad idea. One rule of good design is only to use design elements - like fonts, italics etc. - when necessary. Adding more formatting "fluff" will make some people use it excessively, just like the smiley-pictures on messageboards or colors in email clients. This will make Wikipedia more confusing and chaotic. It's bad enough with the normal <hr>, its use should be limited as much as possible.
Regards,
Erik
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