User:Alien333/Thoughts

Thoughts

Some random and debatable thoughts of mine^[1], if you've got time to lose^[2].

• Here, the ultimate goal of technological optimization is to proofread without reading. Most of the human input is unnecessary, and we can go much faster without it.^[3].

• We have a problem with documentation. We have some help pages, sure, but nearly no one actively takes care of those^[4], and there are many things that should be in there. The /doc subpages of templates are in most case good, but they're hard to find. We have a great lot of them, a nice help page that doesn't cover a lot of them and a category tree that is at the very least puzzling. Quite a lot of templates are in categories that make them hard to find^[5]. I am neither the first^[6], nor the second, to think we have a documentation issue. There have apparently been a number of attempts to fix this already, and they've more or less all dwindled to nothing.

• We should not choose works for notability or usefulness, as they are both very relative. I personally choose the works I do because why not.

Notes

1. with an absurd quantity of footnotes for not really necessary information. I am usually more of a parentheses user, but refs clutter the text less, even though it's a bit awkward
2. and you probably do, if you landed here
3. it is a bit ridiculous that I am taking time that I could have spent proofreading to write on how precious time is
4. and despite my complaining about it most of the time I don't either
5. e.g. {{ppoem}} in Category:Experimental templates
6. and that was in 2012