User talk:Pi zero/Archives

Notes[edit]

Design for an archives central landing page.

Appearance.

Shortcut WN:ARCHIVE could be switched to the central landing page, provided the policy page is readily found from there.
To suppress page title, use MediaWiki:Common.css. (Page-specific css may produce a flicker before it kicks in.)

Possible content.

Say something about the importance of a permanently free news archive.
Explain why they're fully protected and how to request changes. Refer to the policy page.

Explain why they're important; distinction between corrections and updates; our policy of not hiding our mistakes when we discover them, but also not simply taking someone's word for it.

Atm all one could do would be to refer to the edit protection requests cat. However, there may be more to justify a section later as semi-automated assistants develop.

ctree — wikilisp recursive structure, where each structure is either the name of a category, or a list whose first element is the name of a category; second element is true or false indicating whether that branch is to be visibly expanded; third is either the empty list meaning it hasn't been expanded, a continuation string for further expansion, or the empty string meaning it has been fully expanded; and later elements are the known children of that category. A string node s naming a category is thus equivalent to (s false ()). The top level is a holder, with four children for topics, places, people, dates. All actions should explicitly pass ctree, to commit its current computed value.
active parameter expand-cat indicates that the named category should be further expanded. The state of the category can be extracted from the trees, either unexpanded partially-expanded or fully-expanded.
active parameter show-cat or hide-cat indicates a change of visibility of the expansion of the named category.
search-cat-one, search-cat-two, search-cat-three; search-invert-one, search-invert-two, search-invert-three — inputs on the search form.
search-show — whether to display the DPL.

The page-area subtemplates are

Top-level helper subtemplates are