Am Dienstag, den 15.05.2007, 10:23 -0500 schrieb Tom Purl:
> Task: Wiki Format Sign-Off
> Deadline: Monday, May 21st (arbitrary, I know)
OK, it's May 21st.
I reviewed all the contributions and will try to summarize everything in
one mail.
1.) Layout
- Template 2 is strongly preferred.
- perhaps Metadata in front like in Template 4
- Comments should go on the same page under the assumption, that these
comments will finally find their way into the main tip. The
discussion-page should be used for meta-communication about future of
this tip (e.g. merging with another tip ?)
- comments should be done as in wikipedia: ~~~~ to sign and ---- to
separate comments
- everything should fit on one page, no scrolling
The other thing was how to handle page-titles. Two concurring
approaches:
2.) Drop the id for new tips, use old ids just to redirect.
- We would need guidelines to get nice titles (no '(' and ')' )
- Should be easy to remember: "See tip #1" would get "See tip
"the_super_star"
3.) Use some scripting to keep ids, e.g. via a cron job that tidies up
each night or a javascript that uses a timestamp.
My (subjective!) impression is that 2.) is slightly before 3.)
Especially when it comes to the question who will write/host the scripts
(and assure that they will work for a long time)?
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Now for my two cents:
Write the things we learned into some guideline-page. I will start that
tonight.
Simply use the template 2 as suggested in 1.) and use 2.) as the
approach for page titles. Layout issues of the template can be discussed
in the respective discussion page. Long and ugly titles can be changed
later as follows:
At import time, add a "coloured box" to each page saying that the tip
has been imported by a script and should be reviewed by a human. The box
should contain a link to the guidelines. After Review, the box can be
removed.
Conversion of HTML in Tip-Text. This should be converted to wiki markup
in the long run. Either we get a good script (some real regex guru
around?) that does it at import (which would delay the whole thing
again ...), or we refer in the above mentioned box to the guidelines
frew posted some days ago.
A problem are tips that contain URLs to external sites (e.g. other tips)
This is regarded as spam by mediawiki (captcha). Though the URLs are
clean (since someone edited them before) we have to either import these
tips by hand or convert all <a hrefs> in the script.
If no one votes strongly against this I would like that this week.
Silence is taken as agreement ;-)
Regards, Sebastian
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