I have tried an experiment by changing Template:TipImported and Template:TipNew (and a bit more -- see Recent changes) to reduce the size/prominence of the heading material that appears on tips (tip number/previous/next/author etc). For example, see the results at: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/The_super_star http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Highlight_multiple_words
This is motivated mainly by some feelings, expressed most strongly by Sightless, that the heading is irrelevant and distracts from the tip. My eyes were quite happy to skip over the old heading, so it didn't worry me, but I see the point and am trying this test. I made quite a nice change to "Imported from" but testing shows that the old tips have been removed from vim.org. Therefore, I have omitted "Imported from" altogether. I also omitted the display of the rating (aka karma) because it is obsolete and often misleading (because we have drastically edited the tip since the original karma was assigned). The "Complexity" and "Author" are now optional. Please do NOT delete the line from the tip heading, but you can delete the value following the "=". For example, on tip 31 you could change: |author=Anon to |author= That would prevent display of the "Author" field. You can try this with "Show preview" if wondering how it looks. I'll probably use my bot to delete all "Anon" authors. I was also thinking of simplifying the "Created" date on old tips (change "Created: February 24, 2001" to perhaps "Created: Feb 2001", but maybe keep the full date for 2007 and later tips). Let me know if any problems or opinions (should the "Created" date be changed?). John _______________________________________________ Vim-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/vim-l
