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

[Ben Yates]

Is there any way for the templates to be included at the bottom of the
wikisyntax page, but display at the top of the HTML page?  Maybe
include some CSS positioning thingy inside the template?

I know how to do this sort of thing with raw html/css, but I'm not
sure how it would work within mediawiki.

On 10/13/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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