Hey guys, this idea just kind of popped into my head. I was thinking, maybe we could offer two versions of articles - a “reader’s view”, which condenses construction templates into clearly visible but less overwhelming icons, and an “editor’s view”, which shows everything an editor could possibly need.
I know that this probably needs a lot more work, but I will edit it later. Please note that it may take me a few days to get back to the forums.
Lojjik
2
One of the purposes of the template is to let readers know that we’re aware of issues with the article and have tagged it to be fixed at some point. I think without some cue of this, someone may be led to believe that the article represents our quality standard.
That said, template text is ugly but as of yet I don’t see a very obvious way to hide the text without also obscuring its meaning (maybe the template is for a title change, but the reader notices copyedit errors as well). A bunch of symbols at the top of the article is hardly to be noticed.
It’s hard to visualise this from a vague description, though, and if you could depict this in some way, I’d be curious to see what it’d look like.
Lexys
3
@GotzeFan
I don’t really comprehend your idea very well. Could you explain further?
Sorry guys - will come back on this later. I’m a little busy now.
The maintenance templates are condensed into an ‘issues’ menu on wikiHow’s mobile site
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Hailey
6
I’m not sure if this is really needed, but it could be helpful. I think the templates are okay the way they are though, but they can be discouraging to other new users.
I am not sure it is required but looks very interesting of having 2 templates
