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Tourist office problem
[edit]I tried to ask a question in the Wikivoyage:Tourist office, and I replied to it with another question, but I can't see any of it except in edit mode and don't understand why. I used the form on that page to ask the first question. What I want to know is which side of the train to sit on for Amtrak trips between Montreal and Plattsburgh, NY and between Plattsburgh and Saratoga Springs, even if the answers come too late for me to use them. Ikan Kekek (talk) 12:24, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- When you click "Ready? Ask a new question!", should the form on the next page require the "Subject:" field to not be empty? Or at least have a placeholder subject text?
- I also see someone else's question about Cancun that got ignored, because it's tacked on the end of the previous section. Gerode (talk) 20:42, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- I guess the problem is that I didn't see the subject field in my mobile phone interface. Is there a way to improve that? Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:58, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- It looks like you can set a default subject value with the InputBox 'default=' parameter. Maybe give it something like "Question from ~~~"? I'm not sure how to change the "Subject:" label styling.
- Should the Tourist Office behave more like a Talk page, with an Add Topic button leading to a visual editor? Gerode (talk) 23:44, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- I'd support that. Ikan Kekek (talk) 23:48, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- It looks like adding a "NEWSECTIONLINK" line is the magic to enable the visual editor on a page. There's also a usedt=true parameter to InputBox to make it use the visual editor by default.
- It seems to work in this sandbox I set up: User:Gerode/Tourist_office_sandbox Gerode (talk) 17:48, 5 June 2025 (UTC)
- I went ahead and applied these two changes. Let me know if I broke anything, or if there's anything else odd about the Tourist office. Gerode (talk) 16:22, 9 June 2025 (UTC)
- I noticed the preloaded "Asked by ~~" blurb was made redundant by these changes and is no longer working correctly, so I removed the preload. Gerode (talk) 19:02, 6 July 2025 (UTC)
- I went ahead and applied these two changes. Let me know if I broke anything, or if there's anything else odd about the Tourist office. Gerode (talk) 16:22, 9 June 2025 (UTC)
- I'd support that. Ikan Kekek (talk) 23:48, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- I guess the problem is that I didn't see the subject field in my mobile phone interface. Is there a way to improve that? Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:58, 1 June 2025 (UTC)