[Vim-l] Featured Tip?

[John Beckett]

Benjamin Fritz wrote:
> I think it would be a good idea to have a "featured tip" or
> "tip of the week" page, where we will feature a single tip
> that we consider to be one of the best/most useful/most
> insightful.

Yes, that would be great. The main page needs to draw people in
more, to give them places to start, and a "featured tip" page
would be very helpful.

> Nominations and discussion could take place on the talk page
> for the "featured tip" page, or elsewhere if that would be
> better (the mailing list?)

Yes - I think the talk page, although some might prefer to post
on the mailing list (in which case, any helpful content from the
mail thread might be copied into the talk page - although we
don't need an auditable record, so we mightn't bother).

> Goal would probably be a new featured tip every week or two.

Let's start with something we can hope to maintain, namely, once
per month (unless you have a list of, say, 12 tips to start).

> Criteria for the tip could include:
> 1. clean tip...
> 2. minimum rating?
> 3. hasn't been featured before

1 and 3 are good. I doubt if 2 is helpful at this stage.

I don't think any automated system would work, so this idea
would be entirely manual. One issue, is what namespace we put it
in. Our "project" namespace is "Vim Tips Wiki", for example:

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vim_Tips_Wiki:Template_guidelines

As recently discussed, such a page is NOT found by 'random
page', and won't turn up in the list of articles for the main
namespace of http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Allpages

So, possibly the URL would be

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vim_Tips_Wiki:Featured_tip

Probably the best thing to do would be to prepare a list of at
least five tips that would be good enough for the list. If you
want, you can go ahead and make the page with rough content, and
a crude list of candidates. We could then spend a couple of
weeks cleaning it up and preparing the actual tips, then
announce it on the main page.

With some more polishing, the following is suitable:

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/VimTip305  Best Vim Tips

John