>>>> "J" == Jakob
<jakob.voss(a)s1999.tu-chemnitz.de> writes:
J> No way. The difference between Part-whole-relationship and
J> instance-of-relationship is too slightly to bee recognized by a
J> large community in the same way.
Hurgh.
OK, so, I realized what the difference between part-whole and
category-instance is. (Please see [[meta:Series of articles]] for what
I'm talking about, here.)
Part-whole, as I'm talking about it, is a relationship between
*articles*. category-instance is about *subjects of articles*.
There's not much utility in saying that a muffler is part-of a car for
us. We're not trying to do some kind of generalized
ontology. Wikipedia is not Cyc. We're trying to write human-readable
texts, and augmenting that with technology when possible.
But [[WikiBooks:French Lesson 1]] is
[[part-of=WikiBooks:French]]. It's a piece of the whole, and readers
(and downstream publishers) could benefit from having a definition of
that relationship.
Will anyone recognize it? Surely. If we use enhanced navigation (next,
prev, top, or the list idea as in [[meta:series of articles]]), people
will definitely be able to tell the difference between the part-whole
relationship of articles, and the category-instance relationship of
subjects.
~ESP
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