Template talk:Wiki list

Removal of 2 fields and more

• The "Edit Mode" field is nice information to have, but I think difficult for the average user to figure out and enter. Therefore it may be a barrier to people who might otherwise enter or edit our wiki pages. I believe that the cost outweighs the benefit and therefore this field should be removed in the interest of simplicity.
• By the same toke, I believe that the "Last Reviewed" date is unnecessary. It forces us to think about what a "Review" is, i.e. if you change anything on the record it has been reviewed? It is also a pain to update and redundant with the wikis existing functionality of keeping edit history. So I recommend its removal.
• If we decide to do this it seems that it would be best to simply edit the "Wiki List" template. Alternatively, we could make a new template, but I'm afraid that will cause more confusion.
• Also, we should probably add "WikiNode" to this template and not create a separate template for that
• Also, I don't think the "WikiTourBus" is significant enough to put on the template. Using WikiIndex, the tourbus isn't really that necessary?

Thoughts? --Raymond King | talk 22:02, 15 Feb 2006 (EST)

Any interest in pulling together a meeting for discussing the many site issues that folks have brought up? A happening perhaps? !MarkDilley | talk

• The EditMode is an important look at wiki, can we discribe it or label it differently?
• I could go for losing the Last Reviewed date.
• Adding WikiNode to the ~100 vibrant wiki to test the idea. But am open to the idea of starting it now.
• I wasn't aware of anyone advocating for TourBusStop on the template (a TourBusStop for WikiIndex, yes!)
• Can there be consideration of losing the Topic category? adding it into the description?

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Conclusions so far

• 1) Remove date of last edit (done)
• 2) Add Wiki Node (done)
• 3) Create new template "Template:Wiki" (done)
• 4) Widdle down the number of edit modes from 16 to a goal of 4 (in process) conversation moved to Category talk:Wiki Edit Mode#16 .28now 14.29 down to 4 process

Additional Categories

Since we are talking about changing things right now, I am reasserting that we have a meeting of minds. We did that the other night with Ray's agenda, but I would like to call for an open agenda, mostly because I have things to discuss as well, specifically the Additional Categories space. I feel it is redundant, and I was trying to deal with that issue by placing a footer above the "natural" media wiki category strip at the bottom. Here is an example of what I am talking about, from http://wikiindex.com/Wikinsider:

For me, it stikes a redundant cord. Anyway, I would like us to have a "happeing" or something like that. It is great that we moved on many issues over the last few days, would like to try to tackle or come up with a plan for others ideas too! :-) Best, MarkDilley | talk

I'm happy to happening. :-) I still feel that there's no reason to have the categories show up in the text. I'd rather use the wikimedia category feature as written instead of using the tag or category templates we created to display those categories in the text of the page. TedErnst | talk 17:40, 17 Feb 2006 (EST)

Let's take this conversation to Talk:How do categories work, okay? TedErnst | talk 15:01, 18 Feb 2006 (EST)