[WikiEN-l] Workable spoiler solution?

Anthony wikimail at inbox.org
Sun May 20 16:53:54 UTC 2007


On 5/20/07, Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 19 May 2007, Alex Newman wrote:
> > After all, they read Wikipedia for the
> > *knowledge*, not the non knowledge. If they didn't want it spoiling, they
> > would read a review site, or see the damn film (or book, song, whatever....)
> > before reading about what happens.
>
> This is nonsense.  People don't read Wikipedia for "the knowledge", as if
> the only possibilities were all knowledge or none.  They may want some
> knowledge without wanting other knowledge; spoilers may fall in the second
> category.
>
Is it even possible to accomodate those people, though?

Answering my own question, yes, it is possible, but the current
spoiler templates, as implemented, don't do anything to accomplish it.

Anthony



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