On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Ryan Delaney <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Judson Dunn <[email protected] > >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 > > 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 think the first paragraph should be the same thing > > though. (The topic in a nutshell). > > > > Judson > > > 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 "hook" to get people to read the whole thing) is a great editorial choice in my opinion. It also makes our content, with the API, extremely re-usable. For example, the National Library of Australia sucks in our introductory paragraph of articles about Australian newspapers for use in their newspaper digitsation project - for example, look in the top-right hand corner of their landing page for "The Argus": http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/title/13 (they also do a similar thing with our articles about individual authors in their book catalogue search. -Liam [[wittylama]] > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
