I would also prefer the transclusion (template) instead of just links.
It may be possible to split it up in and a part with more general tags
(e.g. name, ref, operator, distance, ...) that are also used with other
kinds of routes (e.g. for
route=running;bicycle;mtb;horse;piste;inline_skates), so that this can
be used there too, and in a part with hiking/walking specific tags (e.g.
network, educational).
On 13.08.2019 12:31, Paul Allen:
On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 at 09:52, s8evq <s8...@runbox.com
<mailto:s8...@runbox.com>> wrote:
Would it not be easier and more clear if we just keep one, and add
a link to it in the others?
A principle used in programming is "DRY." Don't repeat yourself.
Maintaining the same
code in two or more places will cause problems down the line when one
version gets
changed and the other does not.
Documentation is a little different, because you often wish the same
information to appear
in several places. This is the case where the documentation is
extensive but people
assume that everything they need to know about a topic will appear in
one place. OTOH,
the desirability of not repeating yourself increases a lot when you
have many translations
of the material.
One way of handling this is a link. Another way of doing it offered
by the wiki is transclusion.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Transclusion and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Transclusion/How_Transclusion_Works
(the first of those two links transcludes the second of those links,
just so you can see how
it looks).
There are arguments against each way. If you link to a full page then
the poor user
encountering the link has to wade through that full page to find the
table. If you transclude
then those wishing to edit the page, or even the transcluded material,
may find it
difficult to figure out how to do it. You could, of course, put the
table in its own page and
link to that, which avoids the editing problem and the information
overload problem, but
still means more clicks and page loads are required than reading a
page with a
transclusion.
Up to you which one you go with. Note that at some point in the
future, somebody may
decide that whichever way you chose to do it was wrong and edit it to
do it differently. :)
--
Paul
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