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Newsletter templates
Referring to Johan's comments at [1]: Is there anything we can do to unify newsletters and changelogs without requiring major additions to the wiki in the form of plugins/addons ? Specifically, I was wondering if something along these lines would be worthwhile to discuss:
- Create a basic template-based structure to add standardized announcements/news
- These would be standardized based on category (core, aircraft, scenery, canvas, Nasal etc), inspired by recent changelogs/newsletters
- Move specific text to sub-templates, so that we can easily localize/translate those using a handful of templates
- support optional screenshots/youtube links
- support optional fields to be added/excluded in a given mode (newsletter vs. changelog)
In other words, we would review our published newsletters and changelogs and determine the common structure that could be re-implemented in the form of templates, and then come up with a handful of templates to add items in a standardized fashion, e.g. along these lines:
- category
- new/updated/removed feature
- headline
- common text
- changelog specific text
- newsletter specific text
- screenshots
- videos
- link for additional information
Something like this could be easily implemented without much wiki magic, and it could be also easily translated at the template level
Thoughts / ideas ?