User:IronyChef/TestKitchen

	Comic Predictor The {{LATESTCOMIC}} template is known to be very expensive, causing the wiki to have to do a lot of work on every page it occurs (which, if reports are true, really is every page.) Since xkcd is released at regular intervals (for the time being) it should be possible to do some simple date math to predict what the next comic's number will be, and when it will be released. Using {{LatestComicOnDate}} to predict the latest comic on a given date... Today xkcd 50 Tomorrow xkcd 50 Sunday xkcd 50 Monday xkcd 51 Tuesday xkcd 51 Wednesday xkcd 52 Thursday xkcd 52 Next Friday xkcd 53 The goal here is to have {{LATESTCOMIC}} be simplified by using said date math, and thus tax the wiki less. Bylines Well, non-wikipedians may not know that every page is editable, and many are left with the impression that explanations are written by some mysterious other. Well, why not let bylines, a la a newspaper or other journalistic enterprise, dispel both illusions. {{byline}} can be used to give attribution to explanations. Whoever creates the page simply inserts the {{byline|TheirUsername}} in the explanation, so they can rightfully be acknowledged for their effort: Authored by TheirUsername. Later, if somebody else tweaks the explanation, they can (if they want) add their username to the byline, as in {{byline|TheirUsername|FixerUpper}}, so they too can be recognized: Authored by TheirUsername, with additional contributions by FixerUpper. This can go on for a bit, if necessary, with more people, when they make a change, electing to put their name on the byline: {{byline|TheirUsername|FixerUpper|CosmeticCorrector}} which looks like this: Authored by TheirUsername, with additional contributions by FixerUpper, and CosmeticCorrector. ... and so on. What? Not the wiki way, I hear you say? Au contraire, mon frère. The wiki is in fact very diligent about keeping track of every single contributors's work; no change is truly anonymous (even if some changes are attributed to an IP address.) There's nothing conceptually different between this history and a byline, except the latter is manual and on the honor system. (And for those of you who would "trust, but verify", the history remains that verification to resolve any conflict that may arise... but I think we're all grown-ups here.) All the byline does is elevate attribution to the main page, as many other literary works do. Nowhere in the wiki code of conduct does it say your contributions must remain unattributed, part of a vox populi pâté, it only says that they may be edited, altered, etc. by other contributors. And, oh, by the way: they have attribution rights, too.