http://gwiki3.thatlinuxbox.com/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=User_talk%3ALWC 2026-04-06T10:25:02Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.27.5 http://gwiki3.thatlinuxbox.com/index.php?title=User_talk:LWC&diff=5771&oldid=prev 2010-03-07T19:10:14Z

<p>‎<span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Templates</span></span></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr style='vertical-align: top;' lang='en'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">Revision as of 19:10, 7 March 2010</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">==Templates==</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>LWC, I'm not sure if your use of templates for links really improves things. IMHO, it only makes things harder to read. As in &quot;... we will be adopting jQuery as our ...&quot;. What's wrong with having &quot;jQuery&quot; as a link? I can guess where the link goes to and if I don't want to follow it, I can easily ignore it. But with your template, it now reads &quot;... jQuery (Wikipedia entry) as our ...&quot;, which is much harder to read and clutters the sentence with information that I don't need. -- [[User:Dirk|Dirk]] 19:06, 7 March 2010 (UTC)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>LWC, I'm not sure if your use of templates for links really improves things. IMHO, it only makes things harder to read. As in &quot;... we will be adopting jQuery as our ...&quot;. What's wrong with having &quot;jQuery&quot; as a link? I can guess where the link goes to and if I don't want to follow it, I can easily ignore it. But with your template, it now reads &quot;... jQuery (Wikipedia entry) as our ...&quot;, which is much harder to read and clutters the sentence with information that I don't need. -- [[User:Dirk|Dirk]] 19:06, 7 March 2010 (UTC)</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">: Actually, that one is not a template but just a regular wiki-link. As for the templates, you can just change them to look like what you want. But the bottom line is that I think users deserve to know where they'll be going before clicking external links. This full disclosure is a matter of taste, I guess. If it was Wikipedia, we could do a vote. :-) -[[User:LWC|LWC]] 19:10, 7 March 2010 (UTC)</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

LWC http://gwiki3.thatlinuxbox.com/index.php?title=User_talk:LWC&diff=5770&oldid=prev 2010-03-07T19:06:09Z

<p>New page: LWC, I&#039;m not sure if your use of templates for links really improves things. IMHO, it only makes things harder to read. As in &quot;... we will be adopting jQuery as our ...&quot;. What&#039;s wrong with...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>LWC, I'm not sure if your use of templates for links really improves things. IMHO, it only makes things harder to read. As in &quot;... we will be adopting jQuery as our ...&quot;. What's wrong with having &quot;jQuery&quot; as a link? I can guess where the link goes to and if I don't want to follow it, I can easily ignore it. But with your template, it now reads &quot;... jQuery (Wikipedia entry) as our ...&quot;, which is much harder to read and clutters the sentence with information that I don't need. -- [[User:Dirk|Dirk]] 19:06, 7 March 2010 (UTC)</div>

Dirk