[WikiEN-l] Workable spoiler solution?

[Gabe Johnson]

On 5/20/07, Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> wrote:
> With all the arguing (and of course this is hardly the first time
> it has come up), it seems the main arguments still boil down to:
>
>         Some people really like spoiler-warning tags, and think
>         they're a nice service.
>
>         Some people really hate spoiler-warning tags, and think
>         they're unencyclopedic.
>
> Personally, I suspect that the vast majority don't much care
> one way or the other.  (Me, I'm not a fanatic about not getting
> spoiled, but I don't even notice the templates, excessive though
> some claim they are -- they just slide on by, beneath the radar,
> as I'm reading.)
>
> The last time this came up, I thought we'd tentatively decided
> to try rigging up a way so spoiler warnings could be dismissed by
> people who don't want to see them (much like the WMF announcement
> du jour in the page header).  That seems like a pretty ideal
> compromise.  Did that idea fall by the wayside, or what?
>

As far as I understand, it's a simple matter of putting one line in
your user CSS file. What that line is, I don't know, but I'm sure
someone else does. ~~~~