Benjamin Fritz wrote: > I think it would be a good idea to have a "featured tip" or > "tip of the week" page, where we will feature a single tip > that we consider to be one of the best/most useful/most > insightful.
Yes, that would be great. The main page needs to draw people in more, to give them places to start, and a "featured tip" page would be very helpful. > Nominations and discussion could take place on the talk page > for the "featured tip" page, or elsewhere if that would be > better (the mailing list?) Yes - I think the talk page, although some might prefer to post on the mailing list (in which case, any helpful content from the mail thread might be copied into the talk page - although we don't need an auditable record, so we mightn't bother). > Goal would probably be a new featured tip every week or two. Let's start with something we can hope to maintain, namely, once per month (unless you have a list of, say, 12 tips to start). > Criteria for the tip could include: > 1. clean tip... > 2. minimum rating? > 3. hasn't been featured before 1 and 3 are good. I doubt if 2 is helpful at this stage. I don't think any automated system would work, so this idea would be entirely manual. One issue, is what namespace we put it in. Our "project" namespace is "Vim Tips Wiki", for example: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vim_Tips_Wiki:Template_guidelines As recently discussed, such a page is NOT found by 'random page', and won't turn up in the list of articles for the main namespace of http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Allpages So, possibly the URL would be http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vim_Tips_Wiki:Featured_tip Probably the best thing to do would be to prepare a list of at least five tips that would be good enough for the list. If you want, you can go ahead and make the page with rough content, and a crude list of candidates. We could then spend a couple of weeks cleaning it up and preparing the actual tips, then announce it on the main page. With some more polishing, the following is suitable: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/VimTip305 Best Vim Tips John _______________________________________________ Vim-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/vim-l
