Template talk:Checklist

I'm working on an updated version of this checklist at User:Catherine Woodgold/checklist v1.1.

The main thing I'm doing is: I'm replacing repetetive code with calls to Template:Yes-or-no (which I seem to have accidentally created with a capital letter at the beginning of its title; I meant "yes-or-no".) This should have no effect at all on how the template displays, but cuts down the length of the code, hopefully making it easier to read and maintain.

I feel that more documentation is also needed. Us poor newbies who have just been told that there are no acronyms here don't necessarily immediately realize that "abc" means "form of title for purposes of putting into alphabetical order, e.g. 'Smith, John'" or even that "y" means "yes" or, most importantly, that "check: yes" means "yes, it needs to be checked" as opposed to "yes, it has been checked and is OK". --Catherine Woodgold 12:07, 6 April 2007 (CDT)

I agree with your comments here. Also, since you seem interested, check out the talk:biology/Draft page for an alternative 'look' that I was working on. Note that I incorporated the talk archive box into the options too, although that might well be too convoluted. Chris Day (Talk) 12:27, 6 April 2007 (CDT)

Nifty colouring! I have no strong opinion about including the talk archives or not; probably better to include links to the archives than not, I guess. I haven't looked into the mechanics of that part. Now I'm just wondering: How do we incorporate all these changes into one final version? We now have 3 versions of the template. I could re-do my changes: about 6 edits, 6 multiline deletions and one multiline addition of documentation. How extensive are your changes? Note that Larry Sanger has edited this version of the template more recently than your fork. How do we go about requesting permission to edit the actual template?

By the way: Thanks for responding! I'm very new to Citizendium and you're pretty much the first human I've run into, besides someone who apparently noticed my request to delete a page. Nice to have interaction! --Catherine Woodgold 12:56, 6 April 2007 (CDT)

Always nice to meet a human now and then :) My changes do not alter the check list code apart from adding extra code for the talk archives. The rest is style changes that are a shell for the code that already exists. Note my experimetal template is just for me to play with, nothing official. Originally i had made those changes to the working checklist and discussed it with larry on his talk page. The problem is that i could never recreate the problem that he had on IE using my MAC's. Since i could not recreate the problem I could not trouble shoot it, so i let it lie dormant, however, your renewed interest makes me think this might be worth resusitating. If you look at my Sandbox2|sandbox you will see a copy of the page where Larry saw the wrapping problem. i wonder if you can see it or not? Chris Day (Talk) 13:41, 6 April 2007 (CDT)