--- kelvSYC <kelvsyc(a)shaw.ca> wrote:
I apologize for the crosspost between two of
Wikimedia's mailing lists
in advance, as this is somewhat related to both
Wikipedia and
Wikibooks.
One of my pet projects is [[b:Pok�mon]], which
attempts be a game guide
for everything Pok�mon (some at Wikipedia have
proposed that all of the
Pok�mon articles be moved to the books, but that's
not a relevant point
here), and part of any good strategy guide is data
and lots of it.
Organizing this data is quite the problem. Here's
an example:
One of the subprojects in [[b:Pok�mon]] is the guide
to the trading
card game, and I need to solicit opinions on how a
list of trading
cards should be presented. In particular, what
would the Wikipedia
convention be when dealing with large amounts of raw
data? Here are a
few ideas I had thought up:
* Each trading card should have its own page. This
will make
categorization a trivial task, but will result in
too many
substub-quality pages.
* Each set should have its own page, with each page
describing the
cards within that set. This will make
categorization between sets of
cards trivial, but categorization along other lines
(such as the type
of the trading card) a pain in the ass. This goes
for giving a page to
any arbitrary group of cards. My personal direction
(not necessarily a
good one) is a variation on this theme: the Pok�mon
cards themselves
are described in their corresponding entry in
[[b:Wikibooks Pok�dex]].
* Wait until there's a real good Wikidata-like thing
before
implementing such an idea.
Part of the problem, I guess, is the lack of
contributions from anyone
else in the Wiki community - thus the need to
solicit opinions. Plus,
this idea does not have to specifically apply for my
project - this
scenario may arise in any other project in the books
or the pedia (for
example, a good application of this idea in the
pedia is episode guides
for particularly well-known series).
Disclaimer first: I am not involved with Wikibooks. I
am involved with Wikipedia.
Structurally, a page for each card makes a lot of
sense. They could then be organized in a variety of
ways: By card number, by set, by color,
alphabetically, etc. each of which has its uses. In
this case, having actual list pages (as opposed to
categories only) would perhaps be useful. Such a list
page could contain a brief summary of each card.
Whether to actually create a page for a given card may
depend upon how much data you have for that card.
However, it seems to me that a minimal amount of data
for each card could be easily gathered to make a page
that would at least make a stub.
Again, I don't participate (yet) in Wikibooks, but it
seems to me that very short pages may be perfectly
acceptable in some cases. I would think the criteria
would be different there than in Wikipedia.
In this particular case, not to have a page for each
card in a book about "everything Pok�mon" seems almost
silly. I know that my kids have such books in paper,
and a page is dedicated to each card. Glancing at
Pok�dex, it seems at present to be almost entirely
about the video game stats. Why not a separate page
for each card?
Is there some reason I'm missing that suggests
differently?
-Rich Holton (en:wikipedia:user:rholton)
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