Toby,
Right thanks for the top level info, I am going to step back and think
about this a bit.
I have tried out the Hovercards beta which provides something like
summaries and its very nice so have made a few suggestions regarding the
idea. i.e. optional explicit summary markdown for overriding implicit
summary generation behaviour. And summary types like simple and expert
summaries and accessing summaries for terms from wikctionary.
I am looking into the mechanics of whats involved in implementing both
summary markup and classification "bread crumbs" as extensions.
Regards,
Aaron
On 11 October 2016 at 17:17, Toby Negrin <tnegrin(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi Aaron --
Thanks for your interest and suggestions!
A bit late to the thread but I thought I'd point you at the WMF's annual
plan[1]. The Foundation puts forward a proposal to the community in the
March/April timeframe and after discussion it is approved by the board.
This and the quarterly planning process[2] are good venues for feature
oriented discussions like some of your suggestions.
-Toby
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_
Annual_Plan/2016-2017/Final
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q2_Goals
On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 5:37 AM, 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
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