I'm proofreading a book, a biographic dictionary, which lists information about 7500 people on 810 pages. Each person has 3-4 lines of text.
During proofreading, a page is a page, simple enough, e.g. http://sv.wikisource.org/wiki/Sida:%C3%96stg%C3%B6tars_minne.djvu/207
But how should such a work be transcluded into the main namespace? Should each entry be its own chapter? It would be convenient to be able to link directly to each person, especially since they are numbered and sometimes referred to by these numbers. But it would make for many tiny chapters and a table of content that is almost as large as the book.
On the other hand, the printed table of content presents three main chapters (A, B, C) of which chapter B covers 680 pages. The transclusion code <pages from=75 to=754/> would generate one very long page.
How has this problem been dealt with before?
2010/6/18 Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se
I'm proofreading a book, a biographic dictionary, which lists information about 7500 people on 810 pages. Each person has 3-4 lines of text.
I'm really very interested into the reply, and I can't wat for it. What's the most convenient approach, between large or small chapters, into wiki? Which are the money and resource saving criteria to follow, considering the costs of server load, memory, and bandwidth? I imagine that the issue is complex, depending from number of edits and number of readings too; nevertheless I imagine that sone rough guidelines can be suggested.
It would be cumbersome to create one page per entry. I have developed a tool for dictionaries.
See here : http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Biographie_universelle_ancienne_et_moderne/Tom... and here : http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Shared_Scripts
For the moment it requires javascript, but I have evil plans to convert it to php.
Thomas
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Datum: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 07:32:16 +0200 Von: Alex Brollo alex.brollo@gmail.com An: "discussion list for Wikisource, the free library" wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org Betreff: Re: [Wikisource-l] Tiny or huge chapters
2010/6/18 Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se
I'm proofreading a book, a biographic dictionary, which lists information about 7500 people on 810 pages. Each person has 3-4 lines of text.
I'm really very interested into the reply, and I can't wat for it. What's the most convenient approach, between large or small chapters, into wiki? Which are the money and resource saving criteria to follow, considering the costs of server load, memory, and bandwidth? I imagine that the issue is complex, depending from number of edits and number of readings too; nevertheless I imagine that sone rough guidelines can be suggested.
-- Alex
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