I know that this idea, as is, will probably be rejected on the grounds
of it being applicable to only a small minority of articles on en (or
any other pedia) and of little use in any other Wikimedia project, but
if I throw it out here, perhaps some generalization of this idea could
be created.
Here goes:
In the world of sports, teams are often abbreviated in some manner.
For example, in the [[National Hockey League]], LA refers to the [[Los
Angeles Kings]] while in [[Major League Baseball]], LA refers to the
[[Los Angeles Dodgers]]. Because of the recent proliferation of stuff
that requires an abbreviation be linked to a team (eg. such as an
article about a sporting event), you'd like abbreviations be linked to
a team's article (ie. in an article about baseball, you'd want [[Los
Angeles Dodgers|LA]]). However, this can be cumbersome and
time-consuming, especially for large amounts of articles or teams (eg.
the ongoing project where one article is given for each World Series).
What I propose is some form of "key-value pairing" to the way templates
work. Granted, all this can be done without the use of this "switch
statement" by the use of multiple template pages, so this is in the
interest of "keeping it all in the same page" or "keeping things
relatively compact".
The way it would work is if you have a template such as {{MLB|LA}}, for
example, the template would expand to [[Los Angeles Dodgers|LA]]. In
each template page, you'd have a set of keys and a set of values that
these keys would refer to. For example:
Template:MLB
{{{
ANA -> [[Anaheim Angels|ANA]],
BOS -> [[Boston Red Sox|BOS]],
...
TEX -> [[Texas Rangers|TEX]],
TOR -> [[Toronto Blue Jays|TOR]]
}}}
Then, when a template is called, a key is specified, and the wiki
software would print the value associated with the key. Should no key
be specified, or an invalid key is specified, some kind of fallback
behaviour would kick in.
You can, of course, have additional template parameters in the normal
sense. For example,
Template:a
{{{b -> [[B|{{{c}}}]]}}}
You could have something like {{a|b|c=foo}}} and it would print out
[[B|foo]].
As I have stated above, this is completely optional and can be
implemented in other ways, but this idea is just for the sake of
convienience. What are your thoughts on this idea?
hi everybody
has anyone of you heard of or played around with touchgraphs wikibrowser
(http://www.touchgraph.com/TGWB_101_SS.html)? this is a great step
forward to intuitive wiki navigation!
i really wonder why this hasn't come up onto the agenda long ago. all it
takes for the current version of tgwikibrowser is a plaintext list of
immediate links from one page (or all the pages in sorted order). this
is accomplished by most wiki implementations by giving the url
http://wikiurl/mainpage?action=links&mimetype=text/plain or something
similar.
to start with, mediawiki doesn't seem to know such a feature. why?? if
we had that kind of "specialpage" and if we could adapt tgwikibrowser so
that it could only read out all the links for one page at a time and
retrieve the links of clicked pages on demand, this would produce no
more load than simple navigation through the textual interface.
what's more, one could even think of a semantic navigation, employing
the categories as "big bubbles" in the wikilink graph and their
corresponding articles as "small bubbles" - effectively giving the user
a kind of is-a ontology navigation tool with categories acting as
classes and articles as a kind of class instance similar to visulization
solutions in common ontology editors like protege. think of a wikipedia
that you can navigate in the same way as offered by such beautiful tools
like http://www.visualthesaurus.com/ etc.
anyone in favor of such a development? i could definitely contribute
some concrete ideas...
best
kai, better know as
user:kku
Dear friends,
I have some wikis that will soon host very interesting content, including
scientific topics.
You have an Interwiki map at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_map
I propose to have some form of cooperation by allowing our communities to
link to each other via easy interwiki links.
If you like this idea please add my wikis to the Interwiki map and I will
update my own interwiki table to allow interwiki linking to the English
Wikipedia and perhaps other projects of Wikimedia.
These are my wikis that can be added to your Interwiki map:
http://www.nerdypc.org and http://www.adapedia.org and
http://jnana.wikinerds.org
In the future Wikinerds.org will host much more wikis on scientific and
educational subjects so I think this kind of cooperation can be beneficial
for both communities.
--
NSK
Admin of http://portal.wikinerds.org
Project Manager of http://www.nerdypc.org
Project Manager of http://www.adapedia.org
In a message dated 10/25/2004 9:51:39 PM Eastern Standard Time,
andrew.lih(a)gmail.com writes:
> I'll be doing a presentation on Wikipedia for
> the McAuliffe Conference and the NHAWLT
> Teachers' Conference in the coming weeks
> and was wondering if anyone else has done
> a presentation to a large group...
One thing you might look into discussing a little is the upcoming Wikijunior
project (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikijunior). We could certainly use
help from teachers in getting this moving. Their input would be invaluable, and
it could be a good way to allay any fears they might about online information,
while at the same time getting them involved.
I would be happy to discuss it with your further if you are interested.
Danny
Dear friends,
I have some wikis that will soon host very interesting content, including
scientific topics.
You have an Interwiki map at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_map
I propose to have some form of cooperation by allowing our communities to link
to each other via easy interwiki links.
If you like this idea please add my wikis to the Interwiki map and I will
update my own interwiki table to allow interwiki linking to the English
Wikipedia and perhaps other projects of Wikimedia.
These are my wikis that can be added to your Interwiki map:
http://www.nerdypc.org and http://www.adapedia.org and
http://jnana.wikinerds.org
In the future Wikinerds.org will host much more wikis on scientific and
educational subjects so I think this kind of cooperation can be beneficial
for both communities.
--
NSK
Admin of http://portal.wikinerds.org
Project Manager of http://www.nerdypc.org
Project Manager of http://www.adapedia.org
(Prompted by the ongoing discussion on wikien about who can see deleted content)
I think it makes sense to distinguish between deletion of the
"copyvio/takedown notice/vandalism" form, from deletion because a
topic is deemed 'unencyclopedic' or 'non-notable'. Let us call these,
for the sake of argument, "hard deletion" and "soft deletion".
I also think it makes sense for every logged-in user (hence not
spiders or searchbots) to be able to see soft-deleted content, even a
list of soft-deleted articles. Admins can still be the only ones who
can delete articles (soft or hard), and the only ones who can undelete
articles. Other users can copy-and-paste deleted text into a new
article, just as they could repaste deleted text from their PCs into a
new article with the old name. But in general they won't, since
deletion is a clear community decision, and repeatedly recreating
deleted articles is easily-recognizable vandalism.
--
+sj+
Hi - could the latest version of LanguageGa.php (at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LanguageGa.php/) please
be uploaded? It's a pretty major rewrite, including
the redefinition of the Category and Template
namespaces, and the main page title (I'll make sure
that any Category or Template pages are in a safe
place so that they aren't overwritten).
Also, would it be possible to do a mass overwrite of
the MediaWiki messages at the same time? Practically
every section has been altered in some way, and it
would save a lot of time over doing it manually.
Thanks,
Gabriel Beecham / Kwekubo
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And as with Jimbo, I too was addicted to the green World Book
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Andrew (User:Fuzheado)
Klingon interwiki-links have been decided not to work. I have always
hated this so-called compromise. But now I even find that what happens
is that they DO work, but are shown as normal internal links rather
than interwiki links. Isn't this contrary to the intentions of this?
Now they are even MORE visible than normal interwiki links.
Furthermore, as I have said before, I find this so-called compromise
worse than both of the things it is supposed to be a compromise
before.
All in all, could we please get to treat Klingon interwiki links the
normal way again?
Andre Engels
Hello,
Node ue is building a lot of logos and fill requests made at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_logos
We now need sysops from each wikis to rename the logos as "Wiki.png" and
upload them on their wikis. The image:Wiki.png should be protected as well.
When its done add your wiki under "Ready to switch" section so a
developper can make the logo available :o)
I switched:
als, cs, ang, wikibooks:he, wiktionary:la, wiktionary:cs
mr: logo (and several others) need to be uploaded and protected.
cheers,
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Ashar Voultoiz - WP++++
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hashar