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-[[User:Hooray|Hooray]] ([[User talk:Hooray|talk]]) 06:40, 2 July 2017 (EDT) | -[[User:Hooray|Hooray]] ([[User talk:Hooray|talk]]) 06:40, 2 July 2017 (EDT) | ||
: I will start slightly off topic with that I actually consider the current newsletter format to be slightly more complicated than it really needs to be. This is mostly due to the handcrafted table of contents replacing the automatically added one. If we go back a few years a wiki newsletter page was done exactly as any other wiki page using the same way to add headers and with an automatically generated table of contents. | |||
: To illustrate the above, compare the [http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?title=FlightGear_Newsletter_January_2010&action=edit|January 2010 newsletter] (plain article style, one template for the header), the intermediate [http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?title=FlightGear_Newsletter_January_2011&action=edit|January 2011 newsletter] (one additional template to move the ToC right and change the text flow) and the later [http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?title=FlightGear_Newsletter_January_2015&action=edit|January 2015 newsletter] (discarding the automatic ToC for a handcrafted one using a template for each main section and subsections added by hand.) Even if that is only so much resistance, it can be what stops a contributor. | |||
: What I was referring to with | |||
: {{cquote|I think it would be technically possible to make templates that could simplify adding new newsletter blanks (but I have said that for years without doing anything about it :oops: ).}} | |||
: was that one can make templates that will import a page blank prepared with regular sections and subsections (that technique have been used on English Wikipedia for adding template documentation.) | |||
: In essence such a newsletter blank could have some of this prepared and some commented out suggestions for how to add a new section and how to add images and embedded videos etc. | |||
: —[[User:Johan G|Johan G]] ([[User_talk:Johan_G|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Johan_G|contribs]]) 09:14, 3 September 2017 (EDT) | |||