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

[David Gerard]

On 13/10/2007, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13/10/2007, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.

> Would make a complete mess of fromowner and significantly slow down
> editing stuff in templates I'm also not total sure how the ref tags
> would react.


We're talking about the mess of project ownership claims at the top of
talk pages.


> Generally if someone hits the edit button they should be able to edit
> the info on that page.


There is that.


- d.