[WikiEN-l] "Wikipedia committee member"

[Carcharoth]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:43 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 31 August 2010 13:11, Peter Coombe <thewub.wiki at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On 30 August 2010 17:58, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>>> You could even (though this is a bit silly) provide the option for people
>>> to "hide" sections and then read the whole page and not have to beware
>>> of scrolling down too far. It wouldn't be a default option, I don't
>>> think, but people could have some optional overlay that would give
>>> them the option to select (or omit) bits of the article to create a
>>> customised article for them to read.
>
>> We already have something similar on the mobile site, for different
>> reasons admittedly. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mousetrap
>> I'm sure it would be easy enough to make an option or a gadget on the
>> main site, if anyone really wanted it
>
> A gadget to fold sections called "Plot", "Plot summary" or "Synopsis"
> would do the trick. Though not for [[The Mousetrap]], which has the
> spoiler in another section entirely (well down the page).

You could put a hidden marker that would be mark it as a "plot"
section. Like the hidden anchor tags that people put when someone
changes a section title but still wants incoming links to the previous
title of that section to work (sadly, not done as often as it should
be).

Carcharoth