[WikiEN-l] More on Tables

[AGK]

>
> The current situation with table creation on Wikipedia/media is not the
> best
>

Yes, I firmly concur with Ian here. Table creation for new editors is a
skill that could definitely be said to be one of the most difficult to pick
up. We may need to look into inviting any editor with the necessary coding
abilities to author an extension that provides some sort of wizard facility
for table creation; or, failing that, take a look into revamping the
existing series of documentation pages we have on enwiki for all matters
table-related.

AGK


2008/9/16 Ian A. Holton <poeloq at gmail.com>

> I'm quite surprised nobody replied to this - unless this was a crosspost to
> another list related to the software itself and replies are flowing in
> there.
>
> I must agree with Will: The current situation with table creation on
> Wikipedia/media is not the best, especially for casual editors. Knol does
> in
> deed make it a lot more simple and maybe we should take a few
> "inspirations"
> from them.
>
> -Ian
>
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 1:14 PM, <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:
>
> > So being at-heart a consummate traitor, I've been toying around at Knol,
> >  and
> > also at Google Sites and at Pbwiki.  I was just updating a page tonight
>  on
> > my Knol user-page when I realized that Knol has a rather nice  "table
> > creator/editor".  I've used it a few times, but it was always  sort-of
> > "blah whatever"
> > until I had to tonight actually move
> > cell-contents-with-their-associated-LINKS around in a table.
> >
> > It was... quite simple, with no hidden problems.  Can we not get that  in
> > the
> > next MediaWiki upgrade go-round ?  It would so simplify the
>  beautification
> > of tabular data and ease the transition for editors who can't  quite get
> > their
> > minds wrapped around our current bizarre and  unique table-coding.  The
> > number
> > of editors we have who understand how  to create and maintain in-wiki
> > tables
> > is quite minute, and this WYSIWIG editor  just makes it all very
> > transparent
> > and easy.
> >
> > Will Johnson
> >
> >
> >
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