Dear Wikipedia and MediaWiki people,

Example Category and Summary markdown.

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On 9 October 2016 at 13:37, Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Wikipedia and MediaWiki people,

Hers are some suggested ideas that may allow Wikipedia and MediaWiki to be organized better in the future and for the future of organizing the worlds open public information.

Summaries - popup summaries for pages

Using automated generation of content for the title attribute on the <a> tag containing a summary containing either the content from an <article><header><section id="summary"> or a designated section from Wikimedia markdown a popup summary could be generated for quick browsing for definition of terms on hyperlinks. This would vastly aid the user experience.

Example :-

{{summary
In [[biochemistry]], a '''cholinesterase''' or '''choline esterase''' is an [[esterase]] that lyses [[choline]]-based [[ester]]s, several of which serve as [[neurotransmitter]]s. Thus, it is either of two [[enzyme]]s that [[catalyst|catalyze]] the [[hydrolysis]] of these [[cholinergic]] neurotransmitters, such as breaking [[acetylcholine]] into choline and [[acetic acid]]. These reactions are necessary to allow a cholinergic [[neuron]] to return to its resting state after activation.
}}
 

Categories - bread crumb like hierarchical and cross referencing categorization and navigation

By creating a set of categorical navigation pages the whole of fields of knowledge on Wikipedia could be categorized.

By having a set of clickable list of hierarchical categories displayed like 'bread crumb' navigation lists under the page title the user could quickly navigate this hierarchy.

By adding pop up menus to the separating chevrons with each subcategories elements cross category navigation would be made possible.

Double clicking on chevrons should navigate to the categorical navigation page.

Category markdown syntax :-

{{category <category-list>}}

Example :-

{{category [[biochemistry]] [[Brain]] [[Enzyme]] [[esterase]] [[cholinesterase]]}}

Added to page :-

    https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cholinesterase

The new proposed markdown extensions do not interfere with existing page rendering

Markdown :-

    https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cholinesterase&action=edit

Hope this is okay !

Regards,

Aaron Gray