Template talk:Main-content
Page Maintenance
I've just created this page as a way of separating presentation from content. It if becomes a regular thing, it would be good to have a history of the content separate from how that content was presented. -- Robin (talk) 15:46, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
Original idea
The original idea of 'on this day...' was to set up automatically changing content that was generated from the SMW content, in line with the site's general approach of future proofing through low maintenance -- however, it proved harder than I had hoped to do that. Anyway, if there is sufficient personnel and interest to regularly curate front pages by hand, that would likely be even better. -- Robin (talk) 15:46, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- Yeah, I was toying around and figured this was the closest I'd get to a news section for now. I tried to check if I'd automate it to set it up, but calculating how long I'd take for automatic stuff to pop up (poor Terje fixing all the stubs, wait until we fire off the discussion about the content again) when I re-programmed (in simplistic terms said) the SMW, bugged me off for now. I'd figure, when we fix the stubs, and in particular, the dates of events, we can automate a lot better.
At this point, I'm just checking interest and watching pwiki. I'm planning of making a new one next month and looking at our traffic, bounce & exit rates to see how this goes. Maybe it needs some help from a AMA or questionnaire on social media to tap into new users, as I've seen most of our visitors are kind of set in their mindset and what they wanna look up and see. (WEF, 9/11, COVID, news cycle stuff) Also user:terje's idea of timelines was a great one I'd like to try out before that or after a month of "beta-ing" this. But like with everything, I'm really time constrained, so don't expect newly programmed breakthrough for the SMW for now. --Jun (talk) 18:03, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
Images and text
Topical links may be good; I see the point of linking in related topics. I'd rather the front page doesn't look too ragged, but as long as you're checking interest and watching pwiki, it should only be for a few days until you find things that people like. We are all much better at navigating here that people who randomly turned up, so the idea of us manually present interesting rabbit holes to people makes good sense.
I was going to suggest (got distracted with everything else) a way to handle different screen widths but also use thumbnails:
-- Robin (talk) 20:29, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
- Cheers. Gonna check this out.
PSA: Some deaths don't work with the OnthisDay template. Dunno why. I'm trying to Occam Razor this and think the SMW didn't update to June yet, so let's wait it out, I added some YT vids just to include some deaths. --Jun (talk) 02:17, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
Content
Terje's idea does work, I keep getting DM'd on social media about the visual active subjects I uploaded last month. Like the visual timelines. The thumbnails should become a staple in my opinion with more current YT links. --Jun (talk) 06:10, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
