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ralokt opened this issue Feb 12, 2025 · 0 comments
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Allow users to opt out of creating wiki pages for events #277

ralokt opened this issue Feb 12, 2025 · 0 comments

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ralokt commented Feb 12, 2025

I just made a blocker event for the next hackathon. Due to the requirement to have a wiki page for every event, this was way more involved than it should have been.

Hackathon pages are usually created by copy+pasting previous hackathon pages and then editing stuff. I didn't want to create an empty page lest people add something to it that needs to be merged into the proper page later. But since we're not sure yet sure about dates and stuff, I wasn't about to edit the whole thing. So now, our wiki contains a page with mostly wrong data, and a bold notice on the top that the data is wrong.

Even without my self-imposed decision to put content into the page, it was just super annoying. Instead of being

  • login to mos
  • fill out event form

my workflow was

  • login to mos
  • fill out event form
  • realize that I need a wiki page
  • open the wiki
  • try to create the page
  • realize I wasn't logged in to the wiki
  • remember my wiki password after a few tries
  • login to the wiki
  • create the page
  • go back to the event form

Not to mention fishing my wiki page changes out of the developer console because of CSRF protection (or sth), and because I logged in in a different tab.

Personally, I was against the wiki page validation change for this reason. I don't like this workflow in general - for me, blocking time in the calendar comes first. Once I have a timeslot, I can plan around availability of things/people at that time, and make a page accordingly.

I also strongly prefer the "make an event, click the event to get to the wiki 404 page that offers you to create the page, create the page" workflow to the "create the page, then hope you don't have a typo when you put the page name in the event creation form" workflow.

I understand that some people like to make pages first, and the validation guards against people having typos in wiki pages, but there should be an "I know what I'm doing, let me create the event without a wiki page" escape hatch.

My proposal would be a checkbox that gets hidden by JS when the page loads, and unhidden when that validation message appears. Or to just revert the validation, and look for other ways to make typos in wiki page links obvious, like displaying them differently in the calendar or sth. Or have suggestions while typing the wiki page name instead of validation.
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