Hello folks,
Heads up that we have updates available for Reading team's work during September and October. One highlight is the new "*Read more* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/projects/Read_more" feature that will be tested on mobile and desktop web beta, soon.
Check it out here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Reading_team_updates_October,_2015
Thanks! M
Moushira Elamrawy wrote:
Heads up that we have updates available for Reading team's work during September and October. One highlight is the new "*Read more* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/projects/Read_more" feature that will be tested on mobile and desktop web beta, soon.
Hi.
How are "related articles" suggested?
The bottom of articles often have manually created lists of related articles already, in the form of navigation boxes, category links, "in this series" links (for people who have won an award, for example), etc.
It seems pretty sketchy for the "Reading" team to be inserting programmatically generated related articles into the content area, which is primarily within the control and discretion of human editors.
Is there a way to disable "related articles" on a particular article or series of articles? (The mediawiki.org page mentions a way to override the related articles, though it's unclear how an editor would do even that.)
MZMcBride
As linked in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/projects/Read_more to the extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RelatedArticles, see first section how to use https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RelatedArticles#How_to_use that shows the wikitext tags that enables this.
I'd say it's a good start.
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 1:59 PM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Moushira Elamrawy wrote:
Heads up that we have updates available for Reading team's work during September and October. One highlight is the new "*Read more* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/projects/Read_more" feature that will be tested on mobile and desktop web beta, soon.
Hi.
How are "related articles" suggested?
The bottom of articles often have manually created lists of related articles already, in the form of navigation boxes, category links, "in this series" links (for people who have won an award, for example), etc.
It seems pretty sketchy for the "Reading" team to be inserting programmatically generated related articles into the content area, which is primarily within the control and discretion of human editors.
Is there a way to disable "related articles" on a particular article or series of articles? (The mediawiki.org page mentions a way to override the related articles, though it's unclear how an editor would do even that.)
MZMcBride
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On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez < jhernandez@wikimedia.org> wrote:
As linked in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/projects/Read_more to the extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RelatedArticles, see first section how to use https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RelatedArticles#How_to_use that shows the wikitext tags that enables this.
I'd say it's a good start.
Quick correction here. I think the plan was to start with it being an automated feed and enable the wikitext override if editors felt that the automation was not a load of their shoulders, but instead something they wanted to override. This is an easy change to make, but I want to avoid creating an option/complexity where we might not need one. It is easy to go in one direction, but not the other. -J
On 2015-11-03, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Moushira Elamrawy wrote:
Heads up that we have updates available for Reading team's work during September and October. One highlight is the new "*Read more* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/projects/Read_more" feature that will be tested on mobile and desktop web beta, soon.
Hi.
How are "related articles" suggested?
The bottom of articles often have manually created lists of related articles already, in the form of navigation boxes, category links, "in this series" links (for people who have won an award, for example), etc.
It seems pretty sketchy for the "Reading" team to be inserting programmatically generated related articles into the content area, which is primarily within the control and discretion of human editors.
I wonder how is {{#related:Something}} different from the ordinary link? I think that embedded and linked list as well as "Special:Whatlinkshere" build a fantastic network of knowledge that can be browsed for hours (I love that!).
On the other hand, when editing (especially when creating a small article) a number of bureaucratic tasks involved in categorizing, creating inline and listed links as well as creation of links pointing towards the newly created article is sometimes overwhelming. If that could be machine-assisted, that would be really really great. Does this look like a task to the "Writing" department?
Off-topic:
As I wrote this an old communist-times story from the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Yerevan_jokes series springs up:
"- Why are police patrols in our country always composed of two policemen and a dog? - One policeman can read, the other can write and the dog has recently graduated."
~Saper
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