I like the proposed improvements to the tip template, but I'm a little wary about a tip template for new tips. How exactly do you propose that that would work? From what I understand, any tips we want to keep would be given this template. But what about tips that don't get reviewed within the time period you suggest? Do they just get deleted? I think that a good solution may be to count any tips without a tip template as needing review, similar to the way in which all imported tips have the "review" template applied right away. Is there a way to automatically insert the review template, or would we need to detect the absence of a tip template? Can we even do that?
<br><br>This also does not address the issue of people that just enter a tip and put in the template themselves.<br><br>Oh, and if you can make improvements as part of the script like moving the category or replacing html entities, that would also be great. I see no reason not to do that.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Beckett</b> <<a href="mailto:johnb.beckett@gmail.com">johnb.beckett@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-left: 0.80ex; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex">
As mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I propose running a script that will<br>progressively change the {{Tip}} template used on imported tips. I also have<br>developed another template that I propose will be used for new tips that we
<br>intend to keep. However, I'm less concerned about fixing the new tips, and<br>will not be pursuing that at the moment.<br><br>The main motivation for changing the Tip template is to remove the 'text'<br>argument so that the tip body is no longer an argument to the template. Then
<br>we won't have to worry about pipe characters or double braces in the tip. If<br>we keep the current template, we have to fix all the existing tips which use<br>the problematic characters, *and* we have to worry about the tips being
<br>broken by future editing.<br><br>The imported tips have numbers from 1 to 1504. In that range, over 280 are<br>missing (spam deleted on <a href="http://vim.org">vim.org</a>, or other glitches, or tips we've deleted).
<br>Another motivation for changing the Tip template is to improve the tip<br>navigation so that Previous and Next will skip the missing tips.<br><br>I intend taking advantage of this opportunity to do some other processing:
<br>Trim trailing spaces; replace '&#35;' with '#'; maybe manually inspect<br>'--AT--' and replace with '@', or delete if an email address; maybe move<br>[[Category]] to the end of each tip.
<br><br>See the following for examples and more details:<br><a href="http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/User:JohnBeckett/Tip_templates_project">http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/User:JohnBeckett/Tip_templates_project</a><br><br>Please let me know if you like or dislike the proposals.
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