User:Arg342/School sandbox
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School sandbox is my sandbox.
Are there advantages to having separate infoboxes for schools and school districts:
- Appearance:
- Nearly a draw. Both are fairly nice. ~isd is arguably a little nicer with more headings.
- Maintenance:
- Single template solution has a slight advantage here.
- Only one to maintain. ~is is already a monster (I count 260 possible parameters, many of which are currently undocumented and included for backward compatability); it would only need three simple fields added to it to make a redirect from ~isd work 100%.
- asst_superintendent
- schools
- teachers
- Two templates would mean one monster and one tame domestic pet to maintain. Since there is still a monster, I don’t see the advantage here, UNLESS there is going to be a future effort to untangle ~is, and I don’t know that there is enough energy and commitment in the community to warrant that.
- Only one to maintain. ~is is already a monster (I count 260 possible parameters, many of which are currently undocumented and included for backward compatability); it would only need three simple fields added to it to make a redirect from ~isd work 100%.
- Single template solution has a slight advantage here.
- Usage instructions:
- This can be a draw with clear instructions to future editors. As it stands now, it is unclear.
- Ease of use:
- This again can be a draw, especially if ISCL is improved or variants are created.
- My idea here is to either add parameters to ISCL or create variants so that editors wishing to create a new school related infobox would get a blank template with fewer fields, but aimed more specifically to what they want. For example, if ISCL could take a country code, then 1) they can get the country specific infobox, if there is one (such as Canada or UK) and 2) if getting the generic ~is, fields that specifically do not apply can be suppressed. A great deal more could be done here, including making a wizard of some sort to interview the editor and deliver a concise infobox template.
Solutions:
- Clean up documentation and improve/supplement ISCL:
- ALL of the possible solutions would require this!
- Direct editors to use ~isd or ~is as appropriate, but allow existing articles to stay as they are:
- Add a few fields to ~isd, improve documentation, and we can move forward.
- Direct editors to use ~isd or ~is as appropriate, and aggressively move the districts currently using ~is to ~isd:
- While this could be done, I count about 900 articles using ~is that include "district" or "schools" (plural) in the title. This would be a big job and I am not sure it would be worth the effort.
- Switch to a one template solution (~is) by doing a redirect from ~isd to ~is:
- This would not require a great effort as far as I can tell. It would require the addition of the three fields to ~is and making the redirect and it would be done.
- Switch to a one template solution (~is) by editing the articles currently pointing to ~isd and changing them to ~is:
- Same as #4, but requires editing about 685 articles
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File:Logo | |
Location | |
location region
{{{country}}} | |
Coordinates | coordinates |
District information | |
Type | type |
Motto | motto |
Grades | grades |
Established | established |
Closed | closed |
Superintendent | superintendent |
Asst. superintendent(s) | asst_superintendent |
Accreditation(s) | accreditations |
Schools | schools |
Budget | budget |
Students and staff | |
Students | students |
Teachers | teachers |
Staff | staff |
Student–teacher ratio | ratio |
Athletic conference | conference |
District mascot | mascot |
Colors | colors |
Other information | |
free_label | free_text |
free_label2 | free_text2 |
free_label3 | free_text3 |
Schedule | schedule |
Website | website |
name | |
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File:Logo | |
Location | |
location region {{{country}}} | |
Coordinates | coordinates |
Information | |
Type | type |
Motto | motto |
Established | established |
Closed | closed |
Superintendent | superintendent |
Staff | staff |
Grades | grades |
Number of students | students |
Student to teacher ratio | ratio |
Schedule | schedule |
Color(s) | colors |
Athletics conference | conference |
Mascot | mascot |
Accreditations | accreditations |
Budget | budget |
free_label | free_text |
free_label2 | free_text2 |
free_label3 | free_text3 |
Website | website |