Thread:Rash20000/@comment-26287306-20170801214828

I understand that spam editing is not the best thing to do and I usually test big edits on my test wiki and then copy / paste onto the official template. But then I realize there are small changes I want to make. This has been a tendency I have had for a long time. I made edits to the template to make it easier to find a specific wiki on the list by dividing the list up based on names. There have been several wikis added to list since the template was created last september and users will keep posting wikis on the template and get to the point (it can be argued that we already reached that point) that it would be overwhleming to look at.

During the weekend, I gave the template a horizontal table layout but realized yesterday that a different layout would use less space and changed the layout again, the layout I published yesterday should stick for a while. For a while I knew that I was making these spam edits and changing the layout so much but thought that users would be OK with that, now I see that some people do have strong feelings towards it (it's OK to feel that way). Going forward I will work on more rthrouhgly testing big things like this and remember and think of all the edits I want to make and do them all at once rather than remember one after another and spam edit.

It seems like a lot of work to talk to around or at least 20 different admins across several different wikis about chnaging the layout. Assuming that they all or at least several of them respond within several hours and I come to check on the replies, it would look like spam (cuz the wiki notification system organizes notifications with headers for each wiki). I came up with a more efficient solution, I embedded a poll onto the template (which is collapsible and toggled with a button, hidden at first), some issues include refreshing the template on other wikis without editing the page which takes a while, and I have been having trouble testing it one poll work across wikias, I try to insert the template onto a page on my test wikia but says "template fetch failed".  