Hello,
I was reading the History of Germany articles and
found the navigation
table on the right quite useful:
http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Germany
I think this will improve wikipedia just as much as
the automatic table of
content did.
A way to implement this feature would be to point a
parent article to all
it's childs and vice versa. That might be done using
[[parent:articlename]]
and / or [[child:articlename]].
Let's look at an example:
History of Germany
-> Franks
-> Holy Roman Empire
-> German Confederation
-> German Empire
-> Weimar Republic
-> Nazi Germany
-> Germany since 1945
Franks article is interesting
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franks) as it
is part of two series (History of France AND of
Germany).
So the History of Germany will have:
[[child:Franks]]
And Franks will have:
[[parent:History of France]]
[[parent:History of Germany]]
Maybe we just need the parent tag ? Setting up a
parent tag in an article
will automaticly update the parent article without
using any child.
cheers,
--
Antoine
This should have been sent to wikitech-l instead, but
I'll just respond here anyway.
That sounds like a useful feature, but right now, the
developers are working on optimization, not new
features. Even if you learned PHP and programmed this
yourself, they might not accept it if it slows down
the server significantly. A feature to make easier
syntax for HTML tables has been created, but it is not
currently being used in the main Wikipedia. With the
new table syntax, the table of contents could be
written something like this:
{|cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" style="float:right;
margin:5px; border:3px solid;"
|style="border-bottom:3px solid; background:#efefef;"|
<small>This article is the top of the<br>
'''History of Germany''' series.</small>
|-
|[[Franks]]
|-
|[[Holy Roman Empire]]
|-
|[[German Confederation]]
|-
|[[German Empire]]
|-
|[[Weimar Republic]]
|-
|[[Nazi Germany]]
|-
|[[History of Germany since 1945|Germany since 1945]]
|}
To me, this seems sufficient.
LDan
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