[WikiEN-l] dueling templates

[Brock Weller]

The point is not to have a permanent two level solution, it's to give
us a more orderly switch, we can get rid of the crap in the public
article and have a sandbox for a couple days while anyone who can spot
some trivia thats information and not real trivia can make an attempt
to save it before we completely dump it.

On 9/8/07, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
> That's not the best solution at all. The best solution is to remove
> the real trivia entirely, and rewrite the cultural references in an
> encyclopedic way. That takes work, of course, but then writing an
> encyclopedia takes work; deleting large amounts from many articles
> based on superficial inspection without attempting to improve content
> is much easier.
>
> As a way to resolve such differences in basic outlook, a two-level
> solution would work, though l think it would produce enough other
> problems to be unworkable. Those doubting can take a look a the
> difficulties Citizendium is having with that approach, and the very
> slow progress they are consequently making.
>
>
>
> On 9/8/07, Brock Weller <brock.weller at gmail.com> wrote:
> > That sounds like a fine solution. Im not a major fan of stable
> > versions but this possibility has me intrigued enough to want to try
> > it.
> >
> > On 9/8/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> > > Brock Weller wrote:
> > > > I said usable, not complete. But regardless. Its not hard to recover
> > > > if someone can fit it in, and if they cant, them it stays hidden like
> > > > it should. There's no downside to wiping these sections.
> > >
> > > If it's hidden in the article history, future editors are a lot less
> > > likely to find it and insert it more smoothly into the text. And the
> > > information becomes unavailable to casual readers in the meantime. That
> > > is a _major_ downside.
> > >
> > > Dovetailing in with another thread, this dispute is something that
> > > "stable versions" could work well to resolve. The
> > > trivialess-but-nice-looking version can be marked as the "good" one and
> > > the trivia-containing version can be marked as the "work in progress"
> > > one. Everyone becomes happy.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > -Brock
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-Brock