[TheList] Wikitables

Fri Apr 30 16:03:30 AEST 2021

I'm pretty easy going so my opinion isn't much, do your thing.   One thing that always bothered me was most pages were fine and the rotorua page was a shambles.  I always meant to get over there, confirm/search freqs and tidy it up but I never did get around to it.  

Richard 
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Sent from a mobile device. Please excuse my brevity, punctuation and spelling. 

On 30 April 2021 5:31:00 pm NZST, Craig <cokekid at orcon.net.nz> wrote:
>Do we like the cleaner Wikitable formatting for some areas on the wiki 
>over basic pre-formatted text?
>
>It has it's pros and cons. Pro is it's neater to find stuff, cons is
>the 
>mobile phone formatting can be hit and miss if the column widths/auto 
>scaling don't match going down the index pages. And pure amount of 
>typing and checks needed to make sure your formatting has the right 
>number of |s and !s
>
>Originally I took a leaf out of ZL3TMB playbook and made some effort to
>
>keep 'closer to home' area looking snazzy using Notepad++ find/replace 
>rules and copy stuff back converting the majority of popular services.
>And added some comment notes to one the pages with instructions on 
>wikiformatting and how to lay it out to get similar results - which 
>seems to have vanished. Or I simply can't remember where again.
>
>Thought others might pick it up and follow suit. Looking at edit
>history 
>some certainly have (and even know more tips/formatting to change 
>things) but there are still the odd Preformatted changes.
>
>Rather than having a single fall-guy (nee sucker) to do it site wide or
>
>impose on others 'home areas' which may upset if they like one format 
>over the other,
>What's the general consensus. Will a quick how-to set in this thread 
>with links to the common formats hereac help regular editors out in
>each 
>region?
>
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