Thread:TheRealPella/@comment-26090008-20150224033541/@comment-15636815-20150317060044

The to-do list sounds like an interesting idea. For something that broad, we definitely need to bring one or both admins into the discussion, at a minimum. I would start a Forum thread about it and see what you get.

One thought I have for something like that is that the page should be a central location with little more than a list of current projects. Each item on the list should be a link to a discussion thread for that item. If we try to discuss everything on one page, we'll have mass chaos in short order.

Arno is just as excited as you about helping to improve the site. It's good to have some new blood around here, and especially good to have some more help. I've been training him a bit, too. I really need to finish the SG and some other "new editor" stuff. That should reduce my training workload and, more importantly, attract some new editors (I hope).

Concerning the icons on the train set pages, Mike and I have been discussing that exact topic this past week. Why don't you join us?

Also concerning the train set pages, I was curious about the ones you created this past weekend. (This is what I wanted to discuss in Chat.) Previous train set pages you created look like the blank template on its documentation page. The most recent ones don't. They have the basic info at the bottom, the wagons separated, and the parameter contents flush with the pipes on the left. You haven't used that format before (or at least not in a while), so I was wondering why you switched.

In this particular case, the data being flush with the pipes is not a big deal, because you're identifying parameters within a template. For tables, though, it makes a difference. One of the things the new SG will specify is that table cells should have a space after the pipe before content begins. The exception would be when we alter the default formatting for a cell, in which case we delete the space before the cell-specific formatting. The reason for the difference is to help us see more quickly which cells change the formatting and which don't. That helps with editing.

Many of our tables use this idea, but they reverse it. Content starts immediately, and new formatting starts after a space. I actually like that format better, but it won't work. We have at least one table on this site that has at least one cell that has content beginning with a + symbol. When a cell begins with, Wiki interprets that as a table caption, even if it's not at the top as shown on the page at that link. Therefore, to keep things consistent sitewide, we should format all the tables with a space before cell content. Since the editing screens of Trainset and other the infobox templates look the same as the editing screens of the tables, it's a good idea to format them the same way. All of this, by the way, is "that internal formatting thing" I mentioned all the way back in this post that I didn't want to reveal to you then. The timing is better now. There ya go.