Wikipedia's "official" newspaper's formatting

NerdyPopRocks, 4 months ago

But does it work? XD

Aatube, 4 months ago

yes

DroneRights, 4 months ago

Is this Tailwind HTML? It looks like Tailwind and it’s also the reason I hate Tailwind

Aatube, 4 months ago

Erm, no? How the heck does this look like Tailwind, which from what I've seen is a CSS framework?

RudeOnTuesdays, 4 months ago

Maybe if you donated they could afford to do this properly.

onlinepersona, 4 months ago

That’s terrifying!

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Aatube, 4 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Signpost/item, if that's what you mean.
The JPxG person (who is not an employee of WMF for some reason; maybe they didn't apply?) recently put this in the testing version of the template:

<!--

The previous thing was unimaginably bad, so I fixed it. It's still pretty bad, but now it isn't 40 lines of the same thing pasted over and over.
(JPxG, 2023 December 6)

--></noinclude>
{{#switch: {{{2}}}
  | 0 =        {{#switch: {{{1}}}<!-- Case handling for speshul snoufleik "0" parameter to put note from the editor top and centered. -->
                 | 3 = <div style="text-align:center; margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:15px;"><span style="font-size:75%;">''{{{4}}}'' &mdash; ''[[#{{{4}}}|{{{5}}}]]''</span></div>
                 }}
  | #default = {{#switch: {{{1}}}{{#expr:{{{2}}} mod 2}}<!-- Everything else. -->
                 | 10  = 
                 | 11  = 
                 | 20  = 
                 | 21  = 
                 | 30  = <div style="float:left;  clear:left;                                width:49%; margin-bottom:15px; text-align:left;"><span style="font-weight:bold; font-size:70%; color:#777;">{{{4}}}</span><br />[[#{{{4}}}|{{{5}}}]]</div>
                 | 31  = <div style="float:right; clear:right; position:relative; right:-3%; width:49%; margin-bottom:15px; text-align:left;"><span style="font-weight:bold; font-size:75%; color:#666;">{{{4}}}</span><br />[[#{{{4}}}|{{{5}}}]]</div>
                 | 40  = 
                 | 41  = 
                 }}
}}

maybe he was rejected because of his awful date format?

Anyway, the testing version has now been automatically protected from editing because JPxG also tested his kewl new testing version by using it in an old 2010 issue, which resulted in 827 page updates

onlinepersona, 4 months ago

For all the good wikipedia does, it has the worst markup language I’ve seen.

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Aatube, 4 months ago

I mean, it's very OK and even charming when you have https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ParserFunctions enabled. You can perfectly read the testing version of the code, no?

superbirra, 4 months ago

lol are you licensing each of your comments for real?

BigDanishGuy, 4 months ago

You’re the one missing out of all the sweet earning potential.

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