Re: [WikiEN-l] My most reused piece of free content

2009-11-22 Thread Steve Bennett
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, it is a great idea that's why we have article introductions, right? - causa sui Yep! Our style of having an introductory paragraph that is a summary of the salient points of the whole article (rather than a

Re: [WikiEN-l] My most reused piece of free content

2009-11-20 Thread Judson Dunn
Those are great for long policy pages, especially for new users. It's probably one of my favorite templates in terms of usability. They might be a little too useful though, people want to use them everywhere! ;) I don't really like template cruft in the article like that, but the idea is great. I

Re: [WikiEN-l] My most reused piece of free content

2009-11-20 Thread Liam Wyatt
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Ryan Delaney ryan.dela...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Judson Dunn cohes...@sleepyhead.org wrote: Those are great for long policy pages, especially for new users. It's probably one of my favorite templates in terms of usability. They

Re: [WikiEN-l] My most reused piece of free content

2009-11-19 Thread Nathan
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Strangely, it's even turning up in article space now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocats_Sans_Frontières It just amused me. Removed now, along with most of the article (which was a copyright violation). Nathan

Re: [WikiEN-l] My most reused piece of free content

2009-11-19 Thread Steve Bennett
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 3:00 AM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: Removed now, along with most of the article (which was a copyright violation). I actually kind of liked the idea of a very brief summary. Maybe not using the nutshell template, but it could work, particularly when you have a number