On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Peter Jacobi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Perhaps the usefulness of portals and categories can be combined. For > example, but unrealistic in the short term, clicking to a standard category > link should open the portal page of the same name if it exists. That is one of the best ideas I've seen for a while. For a brief time, there were extended descriptions and even images at the top of broad category pages. You can see this in early versions of the Nature category: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Nature&oldid=32341398 You can see the portal browse bar up there as well. I think most footer navigational templates should be a link to the templates, rather than a transcluded set of links. Just as we link to categories and portals and lists instead of transcluding them. But that would take a huge culture shift and would (understandably) meet great resistance from those that have built and maintain such templates (a natural reaction if people see months or years of work being made less visible, being a click away rather than directly visible). Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
