User talk:Eep

Todo list
This conversation has grown a bit more general, and it would be useful to get other people involved. I have moved it to Manual talk:Configuration settings —The preceding unsigned comment was added by HappyDog (talk • contribs) 05:06, July 26, 2007.

Template:W
Hi, why did you revert my changes, such as the one to Category:MediaWiki components? There's no need for an useless template when you can do the same thing with page title and it works well and doesn't make the page source code messier etc. -- Sayuri 13:27, 26 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Did you even read my edit summary comments? It's all explained there but I'll reiterate it here for you: the template requires less typing. -Eep² 14:07, 26 July 2007 (UTC)


 * vs. Pagetitle Your template reduces the need to type a grand total of 1 character but now requires you to hold down the shift key for 4 characters and strech your finger to hit a character when the other form uses a easier to access character, and causes stress for the MediaWiki parser because now it needs to go and parse a template in addition to the links and substitute variables. In this template doesn't make anything simpler. If this were Wikipedia, Wikiquote, or any Wikia wiki the community would be tagging it for deletion. Dantman 14:16, 26 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I wasn't aware putting a pipe (and not adding anything after it) removes the namespace. -Eep² 14:46, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Your "select multiple NS idea"
Moved to Talk:Extension:Multi-select Namespace Search. -Eep² 12:54, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Categorizing the extensions
Hi eep. It is a huge relief to find someone else who is as committed to categorizing the extensions as I am. I agree that it is vital to improve the accessibility for extensions people will actually find useful. I suggest we coordinate our efforts rather than both slogging out our guts to attack the same problem in different ways. I have been trying to get this moving for a while now, and it seems that we currently agree with happydogs idea: That we should make changes to the template:extension to automate the categorization according to template field entries. This is the order of how I think we need to approach this to best coordinate our efforts: Unfortunately I have found that this has been very slow going. i suspect this is because we have no unanimous name proposal for the field. As you can see we have only come up with: category, subcategory, subject, function. I look forward to working with you on this mammoth project.Bouncingmolar 07:28, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) We need to agree on the name for the field within the template.
 * 2) Once agreed, either happydog, or with help we will add the code to the template:extension
 * 3) we then need to visit every extension and figure out what category each will fit under and place it in the template fields at the top of each page.
 * 4) the template will handle the rest (placing them in categories/ making an automatic category for uncategorised extensions etc)
 * I should probably mention the reason why using the template is the preferred solution to categorization. Basically, manually adding categories to each extension page, has the problem that there is no way to tell which extensions do not have a category already. whereas you can create rules within the template to place all uncategorized extensions(the ones that haven't used the template) in one big pile for us to sort. Bouncingmolar 07:36, 1 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Hey, yea, template auto-categorization is the way to go, but the current Template:Extension needs to support multiple comma-separated extension sections (i.e. "special page, form, category") in order to categorize in Category:Special page extensions, Category:Form extensions, and Category:Category extensions, for example (like I already mentioned for multiple author support in the same template). Unfortunately, I don't have enough template experience to do it, but if an existing template can be found that does, it shouldn't be too hard to copy the syntax for the extension and other templates like Template:SettingSummary for variables (which I started adding support for other variable categories). The problem is, extensions, functions, variables, hooks, etc, can all be categorized in multiple component categories so I don't think a 1-category-per-extension et al approach is best. Using the existing http://svn.wikimedia.org/doc/ modules categories may be able to help. -Eep² 09:40, 1 August 2007 (UTC)