Yes. Point taken John. Wow. Thank goodness I use syntax highlighting
#love... but still: Yikes. Here's the link to the page if anyone wants to
dig around the madness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom
I guess I see a difference between a casual editor wanting to update a
piece of data that can be Ctrl+F searched for among a mass of information
versus battling with P# Wikidata items amongst an endless sea of
chronological elements and curly brackets. But that's just me.
re: this proposal
I think Putnik has been very patient with my concerns and in trying to
answer questions. As have others. I really appreciate it.
I am not satisfied, and the majority of my concerns will not be addressed.
There do not seem to be solutions here that will make me happy. I will be
interested to see how this proposal progresses.
Best,
- Erika
*Erika Herzog*
Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BrillLyle>*
On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 12:12 PM, john cummings <mrjohncummings(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I think its important to make a distinction between
what is easiest and
what people are used to. Perhaps thinking about what new users would find
easiest might be helpful.
Here is an example of a well developed infobox on English Wikipedia, I
think that the knowledge needed to edit this is an unreasonable barrier for
casual, new or even fairly experienced if less technical editors like
myself.
{{about|the country|its largest island|Great Britain|other uses|United
Kingdom (disambiguation)|and|UK (disambiguation)}}
{{pp-semi-indef}}
{{pp-move-indef}}
{{Use British English|date=April 2012}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2016}}
{{Infobox country
| name =
{{collapsible list
|titlestyle=background:transparent;font-size:9pt;
|title={{resize|11.5pt|{{nowrap|United Kingdom of Great}}
{{nowrap|Britain and Northern Ireland}}}}
|{{Infobox |subbox=yes |bodystyle=font-size:9pt;font-weight:normal;
|rowclass1=mergedrow |label1=[[Cornish language|Cornish]]:
|data1={{lang|kw|Rywvaneth Unys Breten Veur ha Kledhbarth Iwerdhon}}
|rowclass2 =mergedrow |label2=[[Irish language|Irish]]:
|data2={{lang|ga|Ríocht Aontaithe na Breataine Móire agus Thuaisceart
Éireann}}
|rowclass3=mergedrow |label3=[[Scots language|Scots]]:
|data3={{lang|sco|Unitit Kinrick o Great Breetain an Northren Ireland}}
|rowclass4=mergedrow |label4=[[Ulster Scots dialects|Ulster
Scots]]:|data4={{lang|sco-UKN|Claught Kängrick o Docht Brätain an Norlin
Airlann}}
|rowclass5=mergedrow |label5=[[Scottish Gaelic]]:
|data5={{lang|gd|Rìoghachd Aonaichte Bhreatainn is Èireann a Tuath}}
|rowclass6=mergedrow |label6=[[Welsh language|Welsh]]:
|data6={{lang|cy|Teyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwerddon}}
}}
}}
| common_name = United Kingdom