Hi, I'm writing a proposal to improve the usability of the automatic taxobox on Wikipedia; specifically, to create a GUI such that all future taxoboxes could be created with it, and most current taxoboxes could be edited without ever touching the templating syntax. In the optimal case, this would obviate the need for the extensive support needed (~10 archived talk pages over two years!) and might spark a conversion from the manual taxobox to the automatic (which is desirable to the micro-optimizing programmer in me) -- in the suboptimal case, such an improvement would still save many people many hours of work and even out the learning curve.
As an ancillary benefit, the wizard-like processes described in the help pages could be easily converted into actual wizards, which would also cut down on errors (i.e. when steps are applied incorrectly, out of order or inappropriately). A quick blurb about myself: I'm 19, nearly into my third year of university and majoring in Computational Linguistics at Simon Fraser University. Also, I'd really, really like to be given the chance to contribute something positive to Wikipedia's community! Proposal Page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Baconprime/GSoC2012> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
