The wording of what I mean might be a little harsh, but the essence of my "critics" keeps valid.
As I'm not a person, who needs to be attented or needs word by word guidelines what to do, I think a little more guidance should be a available anyway.
In the meantime there grew some experience. And thus there build indeed some (unwritten) guidelines or agreements.
That might be true, but a Newbie has several problems to learn those implicit rules. He might make a few violations on these rules - some of them with giving a new impact on future design-guidelines of the pages, some of them simply "violating" the existing guidelines - but he has "no simple chance" to create a page on its own, which meets the (non-)existing guidelines - enhanced with some new design ideas ...
All I want to say is: if there would be some rudimentary guidelines on page design, it would be much easier for sporadic Wiki-contributors to write minimal standard articles.
This also would allow the "moderators" (better: people who are interested in the quality of the wiki pages) to concentrate on other tasks (for example: providing better templates ...) and not to do such basic formatting inserting the backlink templates - which might be neccessary anyway from time to time ...
But it is a different concept just like school and university.
Here is noone to teach you, you'll have to learn all by yourself. But you decide what to learn.
I don't want to be teached - I want to participate in basic experiences other people made. Based on this basic stuff, it would be much easier to reach a higher level of wisdom (I don't need to invent the wheel, when I try to build a car ...
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I intentionally used the term "guideline" - and nothing more rigorous ...
Anyway, if there is a technical problem or question you may feel free to email me and I will try to help you if I can.
Thanks - be sure you'll get some questions, if there are any ...
But the information on experts on the wiki (or people who feel responsible on the wiki or -in a more official role- the moderators -but since there are no official moderators, I would like to see the the experts as a board on questions on wiki usage), should be available in the Wiki itself ...
All those objections won't keep me from contributing to the Wiki, but I'm just trying to get the entry into the Wiki-World for willing, but unexperienced users easier than it is now - as I consider myself also as a person who is interested in the quality of the wiki pages ...
(And it's much easier to make these objections now from the "willing user"-side as later from the "expert" side ...)
Perhaps I also will be an expert later, and will have a complete different view on this ...
@Sanskritfritz:
So I insert my scripts and the pros help me format it or they do it themselves
That's the way I'll do it
- but as a pro I would prefer to do higher level things. Those "basic formatting stuff" should be done by the user itself - but he also should have a chance to do this ...
). But there are few people who make reviews. And the the design actually gets more and more homogenius IMHO. (For i.e. I insert the backlink template whereever I find it isn't used).
