On 1 June 2014 05:53, Ting Chen <wing.philopp(a)gmx.de> wrote:
Hello Risker,
you have my sympathy, and let me tell you this: I am man and programmer,
and when I edit articles nowaday I tend to ignore the info boxes and the
templates at the end of each article. If I create a new article and I
happen don't have a similar article with the templates and infobox already
at hand, I simply create an article without both.
And I think it is essential to tell the beginner to do the same: Don't
bother with things that are too complicated, it is the content that counts.
What I also do is help newcomers to wikify articles. I think it is an
utterly bad habitate just to put a wikify template in a not nicely
structured article instead of to do something by one self. It is usually
just a few edits, two '''s, a few [[ and ]]s, and maybe a [[cateogry:...]]
that can make the difference.
<snip>
See now, here's the problem. What you've described as "simple" above
is
actually complicated, and requires rather advanced knowledge of wikitext.
Categorizing of articles is a minefield that even a lot of experienced
Wikipedians avoid. Knowing that there are maintenance templates is not
something that a new user will know, so adding them is far beyond their
abilities.
And none of your suggestions deal with the fact that the information in the
editing window just doesn't look like the article; a new user will likely
have difficulty finding the typo that they were trying to fix.
Risker/Anne