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
Dear Wikipedia and MediaWiki people,
Example Category and Summary markdown.
Comments inline ...
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
Sorry had for the noise I had to undo that page mod as it ended up rendering after all I thought I had checked it !
Ideally additional undefined {{ }} modifications should no be rendered !
Regards,
Aaron Gray
On 9 October 2016 at 15:16, Aaron Gray aaronngray.lists@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Wikipedia and MediaWiki people,
Example Category and Summary markdown.
Comments inline ...
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=CholinesteraseThe new proposed markdown extensions do not interfere with existing page rendering
Markdown :-
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cholinesterase&action=editHope this is okay !
Regards,
Aaron Gray
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/F... [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@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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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@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@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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