[WikiEN-l] Jason Calancis on Wikipedia's technological obscurantism

[David Gerard]

On 13/10/2007, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:

> At the very least, we should move things like WikiProjects, GA
> nomination statuses, and other such pieces of processcruft to a
> subpage and transclude it so that newbies trying to discuss on talk
> pages just get "{{single template link}}". We could probably afford
> to do the same with infoboxes and the like on main articles - move
> them to a subpage and transclude a single template. Yes, it makes
> editing the infobox a step less intuitive, but someone who can't
> figure that step out probably can't handle the template syntax anyway.


That'sa fantastically good idea! See if it flies on the Village Pump,
etc. A bot run would be enough once you have something acceptable to
the VP and the most template-heavy projects.


- d.