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in reply to Monastery gates typo and title change

Thank you, esteemed brother!

  1. Fixed.
  2. Fixed. I have removed "Offer your reply" from the last few places where it was residing.
  3. Fixed. I have renamed all the sections of The Monastery Gates to remove the word "New", since that's not really what the Front Page is about (anymore?). I also renamed the SoPW section as "Supplications". If people have heartburn with that, let me know. Maybe I'll change it back. :-)
I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies.

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Re^2: Monastery gates typo and title change
by kcott (Archbishop) on Feb 14, 2020 at 02:06 UTC
    'I also renamed the SoPW section as "Supplications". If people have heartburn with that, let me know.'

    When logging in, I often have in the back of my mind: "Let's see what supplicants we have at the front gates today."

    I think "Supplications" is very apt; causes me no "heartburn"; and gets my vote.

    — Ken

Re^2: Monastery gates typo and title change
by haukex (Archbishop) on Feb 14, 2020 at 14:40 UTC

    I think it's a nice addition, I just would pick one nit: "Starts at", "Ends at", and "Current Status" are on separate lines, taking up a fair amount of vertical space, I think they'd fit much better arranged horizontally.

      Indeed. Maybe "$STATS: Runs from $START thru $FINISH".

      Also, maybe title/hover text on the section headers:

      Quests => (hmm, don't know how i'd quickly describe quests) Supplications => Perl-related discussions are found here PerlMonks Discussions => Discussions about the perlmonks site itself
Re^2: Monastery gates typo and title change
by Eily (Monsignor) on Feb 14, 2020 at 09:12 UTC

    Thanks! I think that "Supplications" works quite well :) . Except for the fact that this time I didn't get to learn a new word like others seem to have :'(

      > this time I didn't get to learn a new word

      “L’anglais n’est que du français mal prononcé”

      * D’Artagnan (Vingt ans après)

      Cheers Rolf
      (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
      Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice

Re^2: Monastery gates typo and title change
by LanX (Saint) on Feb 13, 2020 at 21:27 UTC
    > I also renamed the SoPW section as "Supplications". If people have heartburn with that, let me know.

    Never heard the word, I had to look it up. Are you sure newbies will get it?

    I'm not sure which problem you are trying to solve with the rename.

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
    Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice

      Also new to me. I also had to consult the dictionary. When I read the translation "Smeekbede", my conclusion was that I was happy to have learned a new word that is perfectly in line with the PerlMonks theme.


      Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn
        Well it's only the Monastery Gates, who's using that anyway and cares about the titles.

        > perfectly in line with the PerlMonks theme.

        So changing the css-font for code sections to early medieval handwriting would be even better?

        I have apologize:

        I really thought it's about making perlmonks a better place for newbies.

        I really should have asked what the intention was.

        Cheers Rolf
        (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
        Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice

      Nobody would guess what SoPW was without looking it up. "Supplications" is consistent with the monastery theme and being a slightly less usual word makes it, IMV, more appealing.

      Optimising for fewest key strokes only makes sense transmitting to Pluto or beyond
        > Nobody would guess what SoPW was without looking it up.

        Did the old title use to be the literal acronym "SoPW" or was it "Seeker of Perl Wisdom"?

        update

        I was able to answer it myself, it used to be "New Questions"

        That's the diff:

        - "New Questions",$sopwnum,0,0,"Seekers+of+Perl+Wisdom") + "Supplications",$sopwnum,0,0,"Seekers+of+Perl+Wisdom") unless ($VARS->{fp_sopw_off} eq "on");

        Cheers Rolf
        (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
        Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice

        > ... IMV, more appealing.

        Is this the problem we are trying to solve?

        edit

        > being a slightly less usual word

        I just had a look at "Other Users" and only one third of the monks currently listed were native speakers.

        Cheers Rolf
        (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
        Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice