User talk:Lana Straulino

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Thanks for taking the time to attack the problem of the buggy template. I don't know how it happened, all I know is that I did it. -- Strife ^{(talk|contribs)} 20:47, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

P.S. Welcome to the wiki!

I'm actually thinking about removing interval notation; instead the text would be what is that of the hover tip text. I don't think there is enough gained by having interval notation. -- Strife ^{(talk|contribs)} 20:54, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Long time ago i work on Wikipedia. It was just too many opinions about what is good and bad and too many politics to bother waste my time there anymore. I think you do a good job here. Templates are a trade-off. On one hand, they make a more modular look/feel, but on the other hand, they deter people from editing and also a single edit will cause more problems on one page instead of only affecting the one instance.Lana Straulino 20:59, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Yeah templates are a real double edged sword. I wish there were a better way (Maybe a form with all the fields?). The goal with the layout was to have a consistent layout as opposed to a free form layout. It's no fun having to read paragraph after paragraph when you just want to know one specific fact. But it does leave you wondering sometimes "where should this information go?". Depending upon how you package information you can put it just about anywhere, it then becomes a balancing act between brevity, flow and importance. If you have any ideas, we would love to hear them. -- Strife ^{(talk|contribs)} 17:32, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

If i was doing one from scratch, i would go get a math book to start out, then make small templates for each small item so that the template could be very easy to edit by anyone without any fear. When i see "hovertext" and all sorts of other things involved, and three levels of quotes, etc, i just back off and thinking, "hmmm, no thats ok. I don't need to learn another whole language tonight." After the simplest templates were finish, then layers of modules could be build on top of those in a modular fashion i would think. Lana Straulino