On 22-04-2001, Jimmy Wales wrote thusly :
I think that the biggest reason to avoid deeper
hierarchy is not
constraints of the usemod engine, but constraints of our feeble
human minds. It's hard to remember hierarchy. Does 'Collie' go
under /animals/pets/dogs/breeds or does it go under /animal/canine/breeds
or what?
Some remedy might be what is at the top of Cardiology "ghost"
page.
Also, one reason for the success of the project so far
is that
it is instantly accessible. We have a concept which people
grasp intuitively: "encyclopedia". And we have software that
is usable with virtually no learning of any kind.
Agreed. I remember amazment at
the instant availabaility of creating
a new page/entry without all the fuss of hierarchies.
Still, I do like the idea of having some more
"behind the scenes"
structure.
Regards,
kpj.
> On 21-04-2001, Jimmy Wales wrote thusly :
> This solution is of course helpful.
> And we are coming back to the good ol' encyclopedia approach
> we we have multiple entries or entries with "subentries".
> There's another issue - nearly flat ( with one subpage level ) or
> hierarchical design of wikipedia. Computer storage and the web
> in particular is mostly hierarchical and tree-like.
> I understand constraints of the usemod engine but it would be
> helpful to have some sort of 'behind the scenes' hierarchy so that
> we could make links 'smarter'.
> > There are many questions of this type. Perhaps we should have
> > this:
> > Heart -- about the organ in general, in all kinds of animals
> > Heart/Human
> > Heart/Reptile
> > Heart/Amphibian
> > These might also be categorized under
> > Reptilian_Anatomy/Heart
> > Amphibian_Anatomy/Heart
> > Human_Anatomy/Heart
> > My general feeling is that in many cases we should just do "all of the
above".
> > But other people might have a more clever perspective than I can muster
> > this morning. :-)
> > > How do I reconcile situations when I write about, for instance,
> > > human heart and reptile or amphibian hearts ?
> > > Wouldn't the links clash ? Am I supposed to write [[Heart - human]]
and
> > > [[Heart - reptile]] ?
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