On Tuesday 02 March 2010 06:16:57 Petr Uzel wrote: ...
Hi,
I've created Category:Navigational_bars that contains following pages: Template:News nav Template:Portal nav Template:Software portal nav Template:Socnet nav Template:Template nav Template:Wiki guidelines nav Template:Wireless nav
Category:Navigational_bars is subcategory of Category:Navigational_templates, which ATM contains only Template:Navbar.
Thanks Petr.
Rajko, you mentioned Category:Templates, which does not exist yet. Do you think we should create this category and then organize all templates into subcategories of this Category? It sounds like a good idea IMHO, but I'd like to be sure I got your point right before working on it.
It is good idea. We can have either indexes, or categories, and I prefer categories. As long as we keep up with new articles and add categories, all will be fine. Problem with old wiki was that categorization begun after there was already more then a thousand articles, and there was no enough people to sort all things out and keep up with new ones. As I'm just starting to read about Semantic MediaWiki extension, that could be seen as extension of category functionality, I have no idea about better way then to use built in categories.
Next, there are templates Education_content and Buildservice_content. Two questions/points: 1) do we want these vertical navboxes in the wiki.o.o as an alternative to horizontal navbars? [1] does not look very nice (at least in my FF)...
Nor in mine :) Vertical boxes that one has to maintain manually are not competitor to CategoryTree (another reason to use categories). They can be marked for removal, but as they are part of some articles, we should use procedure like with Sablon:PointHere in en.o.o. Add message that is depreciated and remove/replace it on a first occasion. I see use for (yet) another template, or templates, {{depreciated|use_instead="this"}} or some more verbose name, that will make unified look of message in all items that are depreciated (template, article, procedure,...). Part of doc can be instruction when to use that template.
2) if we want to keep them, I'd suggest to rename them to Template:{Buildservice,Educational}_navbox, put into Category:Navigational_navboxes. Then, it would make sense also to rename Template:*_nav to Template:*_navbar.
The renaming to *_navbar is good idea anyway. It will establish clear connection between parent and children template. Probably not that important to casual wiki editor as it is to wiki maintainers that will have to remember a lot of things.
Petr
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