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.
*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.
*QuickLink - Quick Link Creation*
A hotkey and JavaScript script could allow the creation of links from a
selected highlighted bit of normal text to lookup a term, display its
summary and allow the user to confirm the generation of a new hyperlink
very quickly without having to edit markdown.
*Move towards semantic content*
By using new HTML elements like <article>, <section> and <header> and
id's
and classes more of a semantic mapping of content may be established. Tis
maybe done incrementally and also for example by a bot auto generating new
summary information that maybe verified by either users or editors for
publishing.
*API*
API's from summaries, categories, and semantic content should be made
available.
More to come ...
Regards,
Aaron Gray