[Foundation-l] Handholding for new articles (Was: Re: 80% of our projects are failing)

[George Herbert]

We could just build the thing and then ask permission to put in the
link on the default UI..

Forgiveness easier than permission, etc etc.


On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:25 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/12/5 Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com>:
>
>> This [1] is the sort of thing I'm thinking about. David, has this been
>> proposed, discussed, modeled and rejected in the past? (It seems like it
>> must have, for something that is pretty common around the web).
>> [1]: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Add_an_article_-_basic.JPG
>
>
> Not that I know of. A preloaded text box would do much the same job, I
> expect. Note how I don't say anything about format of references, etc
> - just enter the content.
>
> Unfortunately, getting community consensus for any change whatsoever
> on en:wp is all but impossible these days. Happenstance conditions are
> treated as rock-solid intention.
>
>
> - d.
>
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