User talk:SusanG/play

"The links are whited out on the page. Different formats are possible as shown (bold etc)"

It's looking a lot better, yes.

Is there a way to completely hide the meta-stuff on the slave pages? Though, I suppose a couple of lines of text that is whited out doesn't take much space... Also, I think we need to move all the "help/" titled articles into raw RW - to make the article name prettier in the list. OR, include a "pretty name" in the hidden data? And just use the "ugly name" for the link target? Is this list still every article that links to the main help page? (that could become a bug if someone links to it on a talk page?) human be in 17:18, 29 September 2007 (EDT)

slave page indexing
Can we use clearer variable names, like "title" and "desc" rather than indexa, etc.? human be in 17:20, 29 September 2007 (EDT)

Didn't find this page immediately, been to pub. Indexa/b - working titles only. Am working on different (slightly) way of putting variables into sub pages - automating (using a template) so that users can make anything a sub page & won't need to type anything but the template name & the actual words that eventually appear. Pages are only indexed if they're called from the 'prime page' - might be able to kill refs to 'unwanted pages' by magic (shamnism)  referring to template referred to above. (dpl is mad!) Susan  talk to me  18:07, 29 September 2007 (EDT)
 * Yup, you bin to pub ;) hehe.  One thing to keep in mind in this whole process (not that it isn't worth the larnin' even if it doesn't pan out), is whether or not it is simpler than adding a red link to the main "help" page and writing the help article.  Not to throw a bucket of cold water over what you're doing - 'cause I think what you are learning (and will you please explain it to me as you go???) is potentially very useful.  Somehow. By the way, don't wikis suck at the programming level?  LaTeX is frickin' ugly, MW honors "some" html, templates and hard-wired things (like redirects) have no consistency whatsoever... it's a mash-up, where some wiki-stuff is super easy (like linking) and some is godawfulstupiddumbwhodaeventhunkit (like wiki tables).  Anyway, at the very least, I expect a private report on how cool/PITA dpl syntax is... human be in 02:31, 30 September 2007 (EDT)

A "bottom of the page" template might be uberkewl... a simple name, with a few variables defined, and then the template itself generates the entire help TOC in a box on each file? This idea could then be stolen for other topics, like the human sexuality stuff... human be in 16:45, 30 September 2007 (EDT)