User talk:Skratata69
Hello, Skratata69, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like this place and decide to stay.
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- Thank you for the fruit? Do you automate this welcome? Skratata69 (talk) 19:54, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
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Talk pages are confusing[edit]
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Why are talk pages so confusing, with no separation of comments or UI? They just seem to be a massive page anyone can edit, while it should have been some forum Skratata69 (talk) 19:28, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
- Talk pages are divided into sections and each section can be individually edited. Talk page conventions say that each successive comment in a section should generally be indented by one more level than the one before it.
- Does this help? Are you looking at the desktop view or the mobile view? — jmcgnh(talk) (contribs) 19:39, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
- Yeah why "generally"? Why does the software not provide a forum like interface, and leave it up to the user to maintain all this? Skratata69 (talk) 19:52, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
- If you have the time, can you please answer the following too:
- How you divided them into sections?
- How you marked the help request as answered?
- Who marked it as a help request? Skratata69 (talk) 19:53, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
- Sorry, trying again. I thought I answered this before but it seems to have been lost (perhaps I never posted it).
- I use the source editor. To create a new section, I type a line like == Section header == and you can use more equal signs for sub- and sub-sub sections. I'm not so good at explaining how to do it with the visual editor, but there certainly is a way.
- Also, from the view in the source editor, you can see that a help request is made by using one of the {{help me}} templates. I marked it as answered by changing it to {{help me-helped}}.
- As for my use of "generally", many editors do not add a layer of indent if they are answering the prior question, adding on to the existing response.
- The Wikipedia software is quite old and slow to change. Often, when a new feature is introduced, a lot of editors complain about the change. There exist sites that copy Wikipedia's content - which they are allowed to do because of Wikipedia's license - and reformat or re-present the content to make it more "modern". Wikiwand is an example. There are places to make suggestions about how the software can be improved. The most recent that I found is m:Community Wishlist Survey 2023. You can also engage in discussions at WP:Village pump (proposals) and similar forums. — jmcgnh(talk) (contribs) 00:24, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks Skratata69 (talk) 19:59, 7 April 2024 (UTC)