Benjamin Fritz wrote: > ... http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vim_Tips_Wiki:Featured_Tip Excellent start.
I'll have to catch up with stuff deferred while I've been doing a ridiculous amount of tip editing (look at almost any tip from 1 to 799). So I won't give serious attention to the new venture for a few days. However, I do think it is important. I think your proposal on the talk page for voting is probably not needed with the number of contributions we're likely to get for the foreseeable future. I would just hope that a couple of people would comment as to whether a certain tip was suitable for being featured. I don't think a numerical count is all that important, and is likely to look a bit odd given the current low level of participation. While it would be great to be as methodical as you have been in your samples (with 'vote, 'pro' and 'con' sections), I suspect that just a simple talk page might be sufficient and more achievable. That is, I might create a new section for some tip, and say it helped me to do so and so. You might point out some defect. If we cared, we'd slug it out, otherwise someone would just put the tip on the 'featured' page, or wouldn't. I think the main point of the talk page would be to avoid blunders from featuring a tip that other people could see had a defect. Or at least it allows the potential for that. If a tip is nominated on the talk page, and no one objects in a week or so, they can't very well complain later if a featured tip turns out to be a lemon. I guess it would be useful to also periodically post on the vim mailing list, prompting people there to point out any problems in candidates for featuring. John _______________________________________________ Vim-l mailing list Vim-l@wikia.com http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/vim-l
