*Wikimedia Documents - PDF Scraping and creating living working documents*
Wikimedia should have a way of creating documents that can easily be
imported and exported to PDF, Word and other formats.
- Document versioning as well as history should be able to be provided.
- Authorship and control of authorship I also needed.
- Fixed and editable status should also be provided
- Document licensing should also be feature, this should allow management
of information from different sources.
Document licensing should allow copying and collation to be done in
controlled way allowing information dissemination.
By scraping the content of PDF documents that are put into the public
domain or under open license that permits modification and that permission
is given to subsume and render them into MediaWiki Pages in modifiable
state. Those that are in the public domain or under a fixed content license
may still be rendered into MediaWiki Pages.
Quick access to the original document and modification history should be
mandatory at the top of every original document page. Auto quotations and
citations can also be generated at the bottom of the pages
More to come ...
Regards,
Aaron Gray
On 9 October 2016 at 13:37, Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists(a)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.
*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