In some weird way, I think I wouldn't mind seeing Donald Trump be a featured page. It's not a bad creator page, really.
In other news, I've been working on a way to improve our category pages. And, in the process, eliminate our laconic pages. I've got a working prototype of a Mediawiki extension to add a tag to pages. Now, on a normal page nothing much happens with text in a laconic tag, but it does disappear if it's in a tag (or , you know...). However, the wikitext is saved to put onto the category page, right after the link to each member of the category. So now we can have index pages that look like they're maintained like TVT pages, but they're actually automatically generated.
So, how do people feel about getting rid of the Laconic subpages, and folding them into the trope/work page? I think we could probably keep the Laconic button, but clicking it (hovering it?) would just make a popup with the content. It should be pretty easy to expose it to an API query. (In fact I think it's already exposed via the pageprops API, but only as half-parsed wikitext...) Or maybe {{trope}} preloads it? If there's a element on the page, do we want to display it anywhere as part of the page content (floating box? on the header?)? Should we call something more boring like or ?
Right now I'm really looking for what people think would be the best way to use page summaries.
Also before you say "Why not just use the new tags on Laconic subpages instead of the main article page?" I just want to say sorry because that's like 10x harder to implement than what I did so I'm not doing that. Also pages that have one sentence of content are super-boring and not a good way to browse the wiki.
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In other news, I've been working on a way to improve our category pages. And, in the process, eliminate our laconic pages. I've got a working prototype of a Mediawiki extension to add a tag to pages. Now, on a normal page nothing much happens with text in a laconic tag, but it does disappear if it's in a tag (or , you know...). However, the wikitext is saved to put onto the category page, right after the link to each member of the category. So now we can have index pages that look like they're maintained like TVT pages, but they're actually automatically generated.
So, how do people feel about getting rid of the Laconic subpages, and folding them into the trope/work page? I think we could probably keep the Laconic button, but clicking it (hovering it?) would just make a popup with the content. It should be pretty easy to expose it to an API query. (In fact I think it's already exposed via the pageprops API, but only as half-parsed wikitext...) Or maybe {{trope}} preloads it? If there's a element on the page, do we want to display it anywhere as part of the page content (floating box? on the header?)? Should we call something more boring like or ?
Right now I'm really looking for what people think would be the best way to use page summaries.
Also before you say "Why not just use the new tags on Laconic subpages instead of the main article page?" I just want to say sorry because that's like 10x harder to implement than what I did so I'm not doing that. Also pages that have one sentence of content are super-boring and not a good way to browse the wiki.
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