User talk:TedErnst: Difference between revisions

:: When size was first proposed, the active contributors knew that they didn't have enough energy to edit every single wiki in our system to add the size field to the wiki template.  We recommended that the person wanting size as a category create a seperate template that would then be optional, and wikis without it wouldn't have a broken template on their page.  That person did a few pages and then disappeared.  Peu has now done way more work on size than anyone else has, and we're the kind of wiki where those doing the work get to make the decisions, so as long as you're not making tons of work for other people, you can do whatever you feel is best.  I don't see adding another field to the wiki template as helping us.  Just in the last few days smiddle added the size template to the new page boilerplate, so from now on newly added pages will have the size template.  "What would you really like to do?" is really the question. [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 12:51, 18 October 2006 (EDT)

::: I think it is possible to add a new parameter "size" name to the wiki template without breaking existing inclusions. I don't exactly know how, but the parameter can be tested against a given pseudo-value or emptyness, and if so, include the using page into the category "unknown size". (I did something like this, but it's complicated and cannot remember right now) --[[User:Peu|Peu]] 15:42, 18 October 2006 (EDT)

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