Template talk:Spoiler

Recommendation

I saw that many other wikis use the hide and show button on spoilers, and I think that it would be great to have that on our wiki. It will take a while to add hide and show buttons to all pages with spoilers, but do you agree that it should at least be incorporated into new pages and the spoilers template? Zelda (talk) 00:02, July 3, 2016 (UTC)

We considered this when I installed our show/hide system and we decided against it. Any show/hide function must be done through a script. And scripts can be unreliable at times. Sometimes not working at all. And not cooperating with some browsers, or being slower to respond on mobile. This is acceptable to us because most of these functions are supposed to be simple enhancements best enjoyed on a desktop browser. Because of this, this would mean that we would have to set the show/hide areas to show by default so it'd display properly if the script failed somehow. This would make them rather redundant. And it'd just slow down page loading even more.

Remember, just because something is popular on other wikis doesn't mean it's necessarily a good idea. A big reason why this wiki exists is because we disagreed with Zelda Wiki, among other reasons, in part, on this issue. Some there liked to emulate Wikipedia and considered them the ideal standard of comparison while others, like myself, felt that we should instead focus on what works best for our needs and not on what is merely popular. Fundamentally, we split off of Zelda Wiki because we preferred function over flash and symbolism, like they wanted, and we wanted to do more things that we considered pragmatic and useful to our needs, which they didn't consider important.

But anyway... Overall, a full show/hide of whole sections is really more of a gimmick than an actual help. It'll be cool for about five minutes until it's nothing but a nuisance. And since it'd cause loading issues we'd eventually get more complaints about pages loading incorrectly. It was a good question, though. It helps that we get the reasons for why we made the decisions we did out there. A lot of it happened in our Skype chats and not on a public outlet here.— Emma ^(Talk) 05:41, July 3, 2016 (UTC)