Forum:Switchover to Showfacts articles

The showfacts person templates are sufficiently stable for use by novices. It is painful to watch new users come and try to use the info pages then wind up getting frustrated, so I propose that we do a trial and see how well newcomers fair with just the new Showfacts form for creating and editing article.

This means for the sidebar: Substitution of Create Info Page, Simple Page for Person, and info article template. These would be replaced with a direct link to Form:Person-ex.

I suppose I would add some bulk to explaining how to select a name for a person but then after that, the user would be taken to the current input form. This is the advanced form which allows input of the kitchen sink of data about an individual.

Other documentation would be altered to stop steering users towards info pages.

Conversion of info pages to the so called "showfacts" suite of templates will probably not begin for two weeks.

Is everyone ok with this transition plan? The old pages will still be available for use, and anyone who prefers to continue using some other article scheme of course may opt out. This change affects the article style that we steer new contributors to. Any questions, suggestions? Please comment.

16:03, September 26, 2009 (UTC)