Year Template/Talk - Rochester Wiki

This page is for discussing the contents of Year Template.

Breakout of Years for Openings, Closings

Completed: - also ADOPTs what are otherwise only Include Pages

Revised Suggestion February 2010 BradMandell

In an effort make the Year pages compact and useful as Include files for Decades or other usage, I have revised my suggestion for last year to one that:

compacts the Year pages, puts all the relevant data into a single table, adds the year search feature and links to Talk page for comments

The following suggests changing the current template to

removes the Header
put Rochester and Significant and the year with Wikipedia link in the table header.
moves to the bottom of the table the previous, next and past events.
adds a search feature for the page that will allow folks to find RocWiki info that was not wiki linked by year
removes the Comments and puts a wiki link to the year's talk page so that it works within an Include.

I have tools that will allow me to fairly quickly make the changes on existing pages and will volunteer to try and get them all cleaned up within a fairly short period.
See the 1960 Example below.

## Replace YYYY with year and also enter in two places in search string plus Talk Link
##  also enter the YY for "--" and "++" entries for previous and following years.
 ||||<tableborder=1 class="tablehead" :>'''Significant ["Rochester"] events during the year of [wiki:wikipedia:YYYY]'''||
 ||<class="tablehead" :>'''Month, Day'''||<class="tablehead" :>'''RocWiki Entry and Description'''||
 ||<bgcolor="#FFFFF0">||Add Wiki Link / Event Description||
 ||||<class="tablehead" (>'''See Also''': ["Past Events"], ["YY--"], ["YY++"], '''[https://rocwiki.org/YYYY?action=search&inline_string=YYYY&x=5&y=4 Search RocWiki]'''[[BR]]'''See ["YYYY/Talk" Talk Page]''' for Comments and Discussion||

Example 1960

Significant Rochester events during the year of 1960
Month, Day	RocWiki Entry and Description
September	Rochester Amateur Radio Association incorporated.
	Fasoldt Appliance opened.
See Also: Past Events, 1959, 1961, Search RocWiki See Talk Page for Comments and Discussion

Versus following Included current 1960s

Significant Rochester related events which occurred in 1960

Rochester events during the year of 1960
September	Rochester Amateur Radio Association incorporated.
	Fasoldt Appliance opened.

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2009-09-01 19:48:15 I have reversed the openings and closing sections—seems more logical to show openings first. —PeteB