Hi thanks for the reply,
yes you understood me right,
ok, for the structure, then we need
2 x = as first level
3 x = as second level
4 x = as third level, if the level with one = is not used.
So I speak of making a META Board, [not for all articles, for all
languages of one klexword, (i think you meant this as well)]
to set up a structure for the first level headline, which then should
show up in all translation of this article.
Teh metaboard should as well offer to write the first headline in all
language translations.
If a user is not fillint that box, the english headline is used.
So this would be the rquest, yes.
Why is htis needed:
There are other examples, which show the need: if you search for a
certain illnes, then somtime you find the structure like this
- Name of illnes
- History
- Diagnostics
- Therapy
- Pills
- Natural substances
- Litrature
-Weblinks
and sometimes the structure is quite mixed up.
Ok this is a reason for order.
Every one can come to the metaboard and cange the first level structure
- in discussion worldwide !
and: there is another reason:
- the users have filled in text now, but there is now a phase, where you
detect social ideology and social blockings for changes in wiki. So the
standard has to be set worldwide. So why not learning from the structure
in another language.
This is an initiative to rise up the quality of wikie worldwide,
So, if there is a level auto-printed called "Weblinks" , users will fill
this gap in every language.
But if there is an article without an "literature", users will not look
up amazon to find the most bought book or the topseller.
Only if there is a gap made by a worldwide firstlevel structure, we have
gaps to fill.
IMHO we need a worldwide structure discussion board for each keyword in
wikipeda.
The first level of the structure then should be "printed" into each
language. even - or just this reason, if a gap is produced.
The gaps will be filled by wikiusers.
Globalisation needs the same structure for e.g. "pregnancy" in china as
well as in usa or europa.
Anyone can edit anything, ok, multilanguage-able users (not me ;-) )
are mostly invidted to the meta-boards.
But isn´t it alwasy so, that people with a look over the boarder are
those, who bring new definitions and additions to the keyword-view of
the special-language-country?
So editing the language-keywords needs an elite to havea computer,
editing the metaboard-keyword needs an elite of mutlilanguage user, but
this all is given and only for the first level.
Everyone can write an introduction in any paragpaph. there is no
introduction headline needed.
But if one keyword in china has an introduction, the other
language-keyword-articles shoudl do as well (after a consens on the
metaboard).
So.... this is just organizing a benchmarking process or "to compare".
Even same contect articels ("illness descriptions") have in ONE language
different structures, and IMHO this structure comparison is needed
worldwide.
Ok, from my point everything is said, just think or diskuss it, i have
not rechnical equipment to make this.
So it is your decision and from here only a request, because I believe
it makes sense.
thanks
Rowan Collins wrote:
On 20/05/05, closedshop <closedshop(a)gmx.de>
wrote:
So if in WMWS fo this keyword a "="
headline is created, this headline
is shown as well in all language-wikis and, in the board to edit WMWS,
there are then all headline translated
E.g.
1. Introduction
French: entree
german: Einfühung
Then the Headline of level 1 (=) cannot be edited in the language wiki,
only in the meta wiki
If I understand you correctly, you are proposing that a standard set
of headings be made mandatory for all articles. My instant reaction is
that this is extremely un-wiki, but I'll go further and justify why it
is a Bad Idea.
Firstly, not all articles are the same - some will not be long enough
to require an "introduction", some subjects may naturally suggest a
structure where nothing ends up in a catch-all "introduction", and so
on. The beauty of the wiki is of course that everything is editable,
and making certain parts of the structure ineditable would just lead
to awkward articles which had been "force-fitted" into that structure.
For something like "Wiktionary", there is more scope for enforcing
structure, because all the articles *will* fall into the same pattern
(although having looked at the introduction to the Oxford English
Dictionary recently I realise how many allowances a standard structure
needs to have to deal thoroughly with an entire language).
Secondly, it's not clear how this would work for anything other than
the "Introduction" example you give. "See also", "External
links", and
"References" sections seem like good candidates for standardisation,
but because they come at the end, and each may or may not be there,
how could the software tell them from non-standardised headers, which
will always be specific to the article - unless conventions are
changed radically to have all headings inside the content at a lower
level than "Introduction", "See also", etc (under a
"Content" heading
or somesuch). And even then, how do you determine whether to say
"External link" or "External links"; and when not all are present,
which non-editable headings are shown?
On a final, more trivial, point, it should be noted that "=
First-level headings =" are by convention never used, since this is
the same level as the article title; the highest level used for normal
headings is "== The next level down ==".
My apologies if I've misunderstood your original intention, and even
if not, feel free to disagree with my reasoning.