PROJECT COMPLETE
Therefore, I am creating this thread to clean up hottip markup in the wiki, and do one of the following:
- Remove the hottip and weave the explanation into the description.
- Replace the hottip with either the note or labelnote markup, as appropriate.
Syntax for a note markup is (for those who are unaware):
[[note]]-text to be revealed-[[/note]], which yields: note
Syntax for a labelnote is: [[labelnote:-text to be displayed-]]-text to be revealed-[[/labelnote]], which yields:
-text to be displayed-
edited 26th Oct '13 9:36:35 AM by Willbyr
Does anyone mind if I go cutlisting the Hottip Cleanup pages? They are the old obsolete hottip list.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanPosting the overall sandbox link so it's on this page: Hottip Cleanup July 2013 Update
What is done with Hottip Cleanup July 2013 Tropers? Do we just have a moderator go through each page?
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanDo you think there can be some sort of announcement to this effect on the forum as well - I see hottips used all the time on the social side of the forum, and I'd rather give people a chance to voluntarily replace them with notes rather than have a moderator go in and replace them unilaterally without notice.
I think a lot of tropers, myself included if I had hottips on my page, would consider it an incredibly gross affront to have a staff member go in and change their page without their consent.
Bonus is we get a lot more exposure of this project.
edited 26th Jul '13 12:10:16 PM by DriftingSkies
Beyond the beaten path lies the absolute end. It matters not who you are... Death awaits you. — NyxI am sure we'll have a headline whe hottips are disabled. Iunno if pre-existing hottips will disappear, though.
On the troper page thing: While opinions will vary on having moderator edits, we'll definitively need some for the pages whose tropers aren't here, for sure.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanI guess what I'm saying is that I'd like to have a forum-wide announcement here in the next couple of days that hottips are rapidly reaching the end of their life on this site, to read the Notes and Labelnotes page, and to request that they remove any hottips on their own page before they reach their (rapidly approaching) expiration date or have them removed by a mod.
That's the sort of thing I think would be a lot more amenable to the populace here.
edited 26th Jul '13 12:34:02 PM by DriftingSkies
Beyond the beaten path lies the absolute end. It matters not who you are... Death awaits you. — NyxBelieve me, I'm not especially keen on making arbitrary changes to someone's page without their consent, unless it's moving their page from Main/ to Tropers/ which is another admin-mandated cleanup. However, the Tropers/ namespace has to fall into the cleanup, and I'm not about to PM every person whose handle is in that sandbox...it's best to give the heads-up to the entire wiki and if anyone gripes after the fact, point out that they had advance notice. I had thought that we could give through the end of the month as a "hey, this is gonna happen, so if you want to take care of this on your own so the staff doesn't have to do it, go for it." and start the cleanup in August.
I think we're saying the exact same thing as each other, in different words. That's exactly the sort of procedure I am wanting - post a site-wide announcement, post one in the forums, and give them a week to voluntarily remove the hottips off the page before they are removed by a mod.
Beyond the beaten path lies the absolute end. It matters not who you are... Death awaits you. — NyxSpeaking of Ed, Fast Eddie has a hottip too.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanW through Z is done, except for What Page Types Mean, which can't be changed until notes start working on preview pages (since that page gets copy/pasted when you are changing page types).
Beyond the beaten path lies the absolute end. It matters not who you are... Death awaits you. — NyxTell him that it should be at Administrivia.What Page Types Mean too.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

On that note - the Web Media list only has T-titled webcomics left.
edited 25th Jul '13 2:26:56 PM by Willbyr