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This user is an administrator on the PinataIsland.info wiki. (verify) Archived messages Please use a ==descriptive header== and sign & date your posts by typing four tildes (~~~~) at the end of your message. Feel free to post a message or ask a question. I am always happy to help. Thanks for visiting!       Contents 1 My schedule 2 Edit this tab

My schedule

I probably won't be back until late afternoon, so you're on your own. You have a good idea how I think and feel about things, and/or what the priorities are, now. If there's anything you think I might want to discuss first before you overhaul something, we can discuss it tonight. Have a nice day! --FeralKitty (talk) 12:38, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Alright. At the present time my main "meta" concern is that users are forced to edit an entire article (including up to 5 platform/type tabs) if they just want to change a specific section of a single game. Solutions would be to remove the __NOEDITSECTION__ altogether, or to include an "edit this tab" button on all tabs. This is problematic without split namespaces and transclusion because the section number that signifies each main =first level tab= is arbitrary. So the options are as follows:

• Leave it as is. Users are forced to edit an entire article to change a single value and may get turned off by the enormous amount of wikicode. They'll also probably change the wrong value for the wrong platform and may mess up the tabs.
• Hard code edit this tab buttons which zero in on the =First level headers=. Problematic because new headers will force us to change the section tab and different articles will have different locations for these tabs. If we go this rouute, it should probably be simplified by an {{ template: <div align="right"><big>[http://pinataisland.info/index.php?title={{PAGENAME}}&action=edit&section={{{1}}} '''edit this tab''']</big></div>
• Split articles off into separate namespaces as proposed at User talk:Jimmcq. Each article has an "edit this tab" button. (Preview at User:Xenocidic/Reddhott2) or Mousezilla)
• Re-introduce edit section tabs. Users can edit sections and they're shown as little wikicode as possible if they're just editing a section of pricing, for example. we don't have to split off into different namespaces or worry about editthistab buttons.

I'll get to work on those tasks you set for me, let me know what you think about this issue at your convenience. –xenocidic (talk) 13:49, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

If there were some way to retain the tabs but have users viewing only the content they needed, they wouldn't be pulling down images for content they won't be looking at (i.e. other platform images). we don't even really need separate defined namespaces, it can work with the article prefixes right away, in my opinion - if we can figure out the tabbing. It would also solve the problem that {{link}} introduced so that the page they are viewing was indeed bold in the navbox. –xenocidic (talk) 17:15, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

I'll be back later this evening. Jim will be around, but give him a break. He'll have just gotten back, and I know he has some other stuff he needs to write up and such, so if he needs some time to catch up, just be patient. God knows, there's a ton of stuff to filter through/absorb. Have a nice afternoon. --FeralKitty (talk) 16:21, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Alrighty. I'll just do some tabbing and stuff in the meantime. Have a good one. –xenocidic (talk) 16:50, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Edit this tab

We used __NOEDITSECTION__ on the species pages because they just looked too cluttered with all those edit links all over the place, but the more I'm playing with it the more I realize that it might be nice to have one edit link per tab to allow a user to optionally edit just a single tab's content. It might be a decent compromise between breaking the articles into separate transcluded files. What is a good way to do this? --Jimmcq 21:49, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

We should create a template called {{edit tab}} which will be comprised of the following: <div align="right"><big>[http://pinataisland.info/index.php?title={{PAGENAME}}&action=edit&section={{{1}}} '''edit this tab''']</big></div>. It will look like the pages do at User:Xenocidic/Reddhott2. The only thing is that the section numbers have to be provided. –xenocidic (talk) 22:15, 25 August 2008 (UTC)