Topic on User talk:Kghbln

Leucosticte (talkcontribs)

Don't worry, it seems to take everyone (including me) at least a dozen or half-dozen attempts to get that template to do what they want. I was about to say, "blame it on the people who didn't install Extension:TemplateSandbox" and then I saw that it is installed. Hmm, is that tool useful for this type of situation? Unfortunately, it looks like a lot of work to operate; I think I would be tempted to just edit the live template. We have test.wikipedia.org; where's test.mediawiki.org when we need it?!

Still, I don't like the feeling of being under time pressure once I start editing those high-usage templates and something goes awry. I feel like I need to fix it really quickly to get it working again, but I'm in such a hurry that I find myself frantically saving one edit after another, trying to make it work but merely breaking it in a slightly different way each time. A sense of desperation begins to mount. I don't want to revert it completely back, though, because that would not only admit temporary defeat but also add yet another edit to the history. Yet I end up making a bunch of edits anyway.

Kghbln (talkcontribs)

Heiya Nathan, thank you for the cheer up. Yeah, actually I only had a couple of minutes to do it yesterday and then I got lost while counting brackets. And then this happens it gets even worse with me. I know myself quite well. Not longer a situation in which you can do productive work. Besides, this template it just a dino that grew over time. It will be nice if this wiki goes semantic but that's another story.

I totally forgot about the TemplatSandbox extension. I never used it though I wanted to. Still have to learn the mechanics here but it should be worth a try instead of wildly going berserk.

Cheers