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Old discussion should be moved to a [[FlightGear wiki:Village pump/Archive YEAR]]. These discussions can then be moved to a relevant talk page if appropriate. | Old discussion should be moved to a [[FlightGear wiki:Village pump/Archive YEAR]]. These discussions can then be moved to a relevant talk page if appropriate. | ||
== Newsletter templates == | |||
Referring to Johan's comments at [https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=32405&start=15#p313099]: | |||
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 ? | |||
-[[User:Hooray|Hooray]] ([[User talk:Hooray|talk]]) 06:40, 2 July 2017 (EDT) | |||