Hello all,
is there a wiki policy about content and navigation into it?
What I have in mind is that I feel this huge link lists a little bit disturbing. Often they are intermixed with text (content). How can someone print this? A few lines and then pages full of links? Shouldn't there be a separation of content and navigation items? (as content being true nodes like in a computer data tree) An idea for this to handle would be (first idea): That a singularity of an item defines its type, that is class definition, its description being its content. That a plurality of items (cannot describe type) describe an entry which leads or actually is the navigation trough the collective of its representative examples or its members. Example: filmstar describes what a filmstar is (if one wants to know this) filmstars collect the set of all described filmstars (according to descripton what a filmstar is) and will likely contain a huge tree
What do you think?
mit freundlichen Gruessen Stefan
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is there a wiki policy about content and navigation into it?
What I have in mind is that I feel this huge link lists a little bit disturbing. Often they are intermixed with text (content).
I find this delightful, myself. In any event, the whole thing is supposed to be maximally useful to someone who is surfing Wikipedia.
Also, remember--sometimes, a list of links *is* content. Personally, I prefer it when people add some "content" (i.e., descriptive prose) to a list of links (e.g., the [[actresses]] article would be a grand place to give some general discussion about actresses, the first female actors (actpeople?), some of the greatest Hollywood actresses, the "starlet" syndrome, the sex symbol phenomenon, etc.
How can someone print this? A few lines and then pages full of links?
We aren't writing Wikipedia to be printed out yet. We're writing it to have fun making an encyclopedia. If someone wants to print something out, he could simply copy and paste what he wants to print. Eventually, when there's a lot more content, we might make systematic, community-agreed-upon changes to format--but, I imagine, only after we have experienced the enormous benefits of *self-organizing* content-creation.
Shouldn't there be a separation of content and navigation items?
But Wikipedia is hypertext! See http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Hypertext .
Larry Sanger
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