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Cool, I like how it does the prefilling of the page. Thankfully, it doesn't clobber a page if it already exists, which is bonus-nice.
As for the table that shows the reader how to format the title, I've been experimenting with this idea:
Chicago, IL: 2008-05-03
- City name
- State abbreviation
- Year
- Month
- Day
I think it's a little more visual and catches the attention of the reader. What do you think? — Wesley | 01:53, 8 May 2008 (EDT)
- Hey, that's a really neat idea! I'll have to look at it again in the morning, because it's hard for me to tell at the moment how easy it is to read, but I think it's clearer than the vertical-text or the table. (Then again, I'm not color-blind, so I don't know if that'd make a difference...) --Bry 02:06, 8 May 2008 (EDT)
- Oh shoot, forgot about colourblindness. This idea might need a little retooling... — Wesley |
- Trying something out:
Chicago, IL: 2008-05-03
1 ,
2 :
3 -4 -5
- City name
- State abbreviation
- Year
- Month
- Day
- That doesn't quite line up right -- let's try it sans border:
Chicago, IL: 2008-05-03
1 ,
2 :
3 -4 -5
- City name
- State abbreviation
- Year
- Month
- Day
- What do you think? --Bry 13:29, 8 May 2008 (EDT)
- Probably asking for a lot, but wouldn't it be more user friendly to make each of those colored boxes an input box and then have the button compile them together into the page name? I still wouldn't trust people to understand when to do commas, colons, etc. You know what they say, "If you make your software idiot proof, they'll just build a better idiot." --MitchO 13:31, 8 May 2008 (EDT)
- I quote myself, from User talk:Wesley#Begging for someone smarter than me to help:
- Probably asking for a lot, but wouldn't it be more user friendly to make each of those colored boxes an input box and then have the button compile them together into the page name? I still wouldn't trust people to understand when to do commas, colons, etc. You know what they say, "If you make your software idiot proof, they'll just build a better idiot." --MitchO 13:31, 8 May 2008 (EDT)
How's your PHP, Wesley? Could you modify the Inputbox extension to have it take two parameters (city and date) for the sake of show creation? (And for the record, I was in favor of titling these pages by date only, e.g. 2008-05-03, rather than Chicago, IL: 2008-05-03. That would've simplified things now; oh, well...) I think this may be the only situation in which it'd be useful to modify this code -- most of the other pages to be created are straightforwarder, I believe. --Bry 23:08, 7 May 2008 (EDT)
- ;) --13:33, 8 May 2008 (EDT)