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Here's one person's opinion (not meant to lay down the law): adding a field to the structured data is a real pain in the rear. Wikis without that field end up with a broken entry and then there's a whole lot of data entry to fix everything up. See the Size issue for one way around the problem, making a new template that itself is optional. If you know something I don't about how templates work and can add the fields without breaking all of the entries that don't have those fields, then I'd say go for it. Otherwise, maybe just put links to that info in the body text for the wikis you most care about and see if it catches on as a concept. [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 17:58, 16 October 2006 (EDT) | Here's one person's opinion (not meant to lay down the law): adding a field to the structured data is a real pain in the rear. Wikis without that field end up with a broken entry and then there's a whole lot of data entry to fix everything up. See the Size issue for one way around the problem, making a new template that itself is optional. If you know something I don't about how templates work and can add the fields without breaking all of the entries that don't have those fields, then I'd say go for it. Otherwise, maybe just put links to that info in the body text for the wikis you most care about and see if it catches on as a concept. [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 17:58, 16 October 2006 (EDT) | ||
:I don't agree with adding the founder/author keys to the general template wiki. Each wiki has a founder/outhor but would you browse after it or make a desicion depending on authors? There may be Wikis that are more than only wiki, maybe like a wiki-based online game, in such cases authors will be interesting, but for ''normal wikis'' I cannot believe. So let's have an extra About template --[[Wolf Peuker|Peu]] | <small>[[User talk:Peu|talk]]</small> 09:20, 30 October 2006 (EST) | :I don't agree with adding the founder/author keys to the general template wiki. Each wiki has a founder/outhor but would you browse after it or make a desicion depending on authors? There may be Wikis that are more than only wiki, maybe like a wiki-based online game, in such cases authors will be interesting, but for ''normal wikis'' I cannot believe. So let's have an extra About template --[[Wolf Peuker|Peu]] | <small>[[User talk:Peu|talk]]</small> 09:20, 30 October 2006 (EST) | ||
:: The more I think about this, the more I agree with Wolf that author or founder should '''not''' go in the structured data. Of course you're free to put that information in the body of the description, but that's simply not information that makes sense as a category or way to search, nor is there even anything to link to, other than that person's name page on the wiki in question, but why would that be useful, in general? Every wiki has it's own structure, and to highlight one particular structure with a GodKing at the head doesn't make a lot of sense to me, as a rule. [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 12:23, 30 October 2006 (EST) | |||
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