Dear Wikipedia and MediaWiki people,
Hers are some suggested ideas that may allow Wikipedia and MediaWiki to be organized better in the future and for the future of organizing the worlds open public information.
*Summaries - popup summaries for pages*
Using automated generation of content for the title attribute on the <a> tag containing a summary containing either the content from an <article><header><section id="summary"> or a designated section from Wikimedia markdown a popup summary could be generated for quick browsing for definition of terms on hyperlinks. This would vastly aid the user experience.
*Categories - bread crumb like hierarchical and cross referencing categorization and navigation* By creating a set of categorical navigation pages the whole of fields of knowledge on Wikipedia could be categorized.
By having a set of clickable list of hierarchical categories displayed like 'bread crumb' navigation lists under the page title the user could quickly navigate this hierarchy.
By adding pop up menus to the separating chevrons with each subcategories elements cross category navigation would be made possible.
Double clicking on chevrons should navigate to the categorical navigation page.
*QuickLink - Quick Link Creation*
A hotkey and JavaScript script could allow the creation of links from a selected highlighted bit of normal text to lookup a term, display its summary and allow the user to confirm the generation of a new hyperlink very quickly without having to edit markdown.
*Move towards semantic content*
By using new HTML elements like <article>, <section> and <header> and id's and classes more of a semantic mapping of content may be established. Tis maybe done incrementally and also for example by a bot auto generating new summary information that maybe verified by either users or editors for publishing.
*API*
API's from summaries, categories, and semantic content should be made available.
More to come ...
Regards,
Aaron Gray
Dear Wikipedia and MediaWiki people,
Example Category and Summary markdown.
Comments inline ...
On 9 October 2016 at 13:37, Aaron Gray aaronngray.lists@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Wikipedia and MediaWiki people,
Hers are some suggested ideas that may allow Wikipedia and MediaWiki to be organized better in the future and for the future of organizing the worlds open public information.
*Summaries - popup summaries for pages*
Using automated generation of content for the title attribute on the <a> tag containing a summary containing either the content from an
<article><header><section id="summary"> or a designated section from Wikimedia markdown a popup summary could be generated for quick browsing for definition of terms on hyperlinks. This would vastly aid the user experience.
Example :-
{{summary In [[biochemistry]], a '''cholinesterase''' or '''choline esterase''' is an [[esterase]] that lyses [[choline]]-based [[ester]]s, several of which serve as [[neurotransmitter]]s. Thus, it is either of two [[enzyme]]s that [[catalyst|catalyze]] the [[hydrolysis]] of these [[cholinergic]] neurotransmitters, such as breaking [[acetylcholine]] into choline and [[acetic acid]]. These reactions are necessary to allow a cholinergic [[neuron]] to return to its resting state after activation. }}
*Categories - bread crumb like hierarchical and cross referencing categorization and navigation* By creating a set of categorical navigation pages the whole of fields of knowledge on Wikipedia could be categorized.
By having a set of clickable list of hierarchical categories displayed like 'bread crumb' navigation lists under the page title the user could quickly navigate this hierarchy.
By adding pop up menus to the separating chevrons with each subcategories elements cross category navigation would be made possible.
Double clicking on chevrons should navigate to the categorical navigation page.
Category markdown syntax :-
{{category <category-list>}}
Example :-
{{category [[biochemistry]] [[Brain]] [[Enzyme]] [[esterase]] [[cholinesterase]]}}
Added to page :-
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cholinesterase
The new proposed markdown extensions do not interfere with existing page rendering
Markdown :-
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cholinesterase&action=edit
Hope this is okay !
Regards,
Aaron Gray
Sorry had for the noise I had to undo that page mod as it ended up rendering after all I thought I had checked it !
Ideally additional undefined {{ }} modifications should no be rendered !
Regards,
Aaron Gray
On 9 October 2016 at 15:16, Aaron Gray aaronngray.lists@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Wikipedia and MediaWiki people,
Example Category and Summary markdown.
Comments inline ...
On 9 October 2016 at 13:37, Aaron Gray aaronngray.lists@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Wikipedia and MediaWiki people,
Hers are some suggested ideas that may allow Wikipedia and MediaWiki to be organized better in the future and for the future of organizing the worlds open public information.
*Summaries - popup summaries for pages*
Using automated generation of content for the title attribute on the <a> tag containing a summary containing either the content from an
<article><header><section id="summary"> or a designated section from Wikimedia markdown a popup summary could be generated for quick browsing for definition of terms on hyperlinks. This would vastly aid the user experience.
Example :-
{{summary In [[biochemistry]], a '''cholinesterase''' or '''choline esterase''' is an [[esterase]] that lyses [[choline]]-based [[ester]]s, several of which serve as [[neurotransmitter]]s. Thus, it is either of two [[enzyme]]s that [[catalyst|catalyze]] the [[hydrolysis]] of these [[cholinergic]] neurotransmitters, such as breaking [[acetylcholine]] into choline and [[acetic acid]]. These reactions are necessary to allow a cholinergic [[neuron]] to return to its resting state after activation. }}
*Categories - bread crumb like hierarchical and cross referencing categorization and navigation* By creating a set of categorical navigation pages the whole of fields of knowledge on Wikipedia could be categorized.
By having a set of clickable list of hierarchical categories displayed like 'bread crumb' navigation lists under the page title the user could quickly navigate this hierarchy.
By adding pop up menus to the separating chevrons with each subcategories elements cross category navigation would be made possible.
Double clicking on chevrons should navigate to the categorical navigation page.
Category markdown syntax :-
{{category <category-list>}}
Example :-
{{category [[biochemistry]] [[Brain]] [[Enzyme]] [[esterase]] [[cholinesterase]]}}
Added to page :-
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CholinesteraseThe new proposed markdown extensions do not interfere with existing page rendering
Markdown :-
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cholinesterase&action=editHope this is okay !
Regards,
Aaron Gray
Hi Aaron,
You probably want to file these ideas in Phabricator Maniphest: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org. Some of these ideas may already exist as Maniphest tasks. Phabricator lets interested users subscribe to the ideas in order to receive targeted e-mail notifications, provide feedback, and it gives us a centralized place to track progress, blockers to implementation, and more. I'm glad to see you're excited to contribute.
MZMcBride
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Hi Aaron,
in addition to what MZ already replied, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_report_a_bug is also recommended to take a look at.
Cheers, andre
Hi MZ & Andre,
Had a look at the phabricator project manager but there does not really seem to be an overview of projects jut an alphabetical list with only the first 25 or so projects showing. I tried doing searches on summary, category and classification. But no joy.
I looked at the MediaWiki source code and found that Categories do what my categories "bread crumbs" idea does but is a name clash. Really what I was trying to express was *classification* anyway and these n classification category in Wikipedia so that could be used as a base then things like the animal kingdom, biology, physics, etc, can be subcateories or classified under the classification category. So it jut needs bread crumbs implemented as an extension that uses the classification category and fits in with a {{classification ...}} markdown syntax extension.
So anyway I am open to any guidance.
Regards,
Aaron
On 9 October 2016 at 17:46, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Hi Aaron,
You probably want to file these ideas in Phabricator Maniphest: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org. Some of these ideas may already exist as Maniphest tasks. Phabricator lets interested users subscribe to the ideas in order to receive targeted e-mail notifications, provide feedback, and it gives us a centralized place to track progress, blockers to implementation, and more. I'm glad to see you're excited to contribute.
MZMcBride
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Hi Aaron *Summaries - popup summaries for pages* sounds a little like the project my team is working on - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Popups
It would be awesome to have your assistance in testing/coding (if you're that way inclined).
If you are interested in this project please come say hi in #wikimedia-mobile on IRC or join the conversation here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Beta_Features/Hovercards
On Sun, 9 Oct 2016 at 17:24 Aaron Gray aaronngray.lists@gmail.com wrote:
Hi MZ & Andre,
Had a look at the phabricator project manager but there does not really
seem to be an overview of projects jut an alphabetical list with only the
first 25 or so projects showing. I tried doing searches on summary,
category and classification. But no joy.
I looked at the MediaWiki source code and found that Categories do what my
categories "bread crumbs" idea does but is a name clash. Really what I was
trying to express was *classification* anyway and these n classification
category in Wikipedia so that could be used as a base then things like the
animal kingdom, biology, physics, etc, can be subcateories or classified
under the classification category. So it jut needs bread crumbs implemented
as an extension that uses the classification category and fits in with a
{{classification ...}} markdown syntax extension.
So anyway I am open to any guidance.
Regards,
Aaron
On 9 October 2016 at 17:46, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Hi Aaron,
You probably want to file these ideas in Phabricator Maniphest:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org. Some of these ideas may already
exist
as Maniphest tasks. Phabricator lets interested users subscribe to the
ideas in order to receive targeted e-mail notifications, provide
feedback,
and it gives us a centralized place to track progress, blockers to
implementation, and more. I'm glad to see you're excited to contribute.
MZMcBride
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Hi Jon,
I added my ideas to the Talk discussion. Thanks ever so much for pointing me in the right direction.
On 10 October 2016 at 06:51, Jon Robson jrobson@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Aaron *Summaries - popup summaries for pages* sounds a little like the project my team is working on - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Popups
It would be awesome to have your assistance in testing/coding (if you're that way inclined).
If you are interested in this project please come say hi in #wikimedia-mobile on IRC or join the conversation here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Beta_Features/Hovercards
On Sun, 9 Oct 2016 at 17:24 Aaron Gray aaronngray.lists@gmail.com wrote:
Hi MZ & Andre,
Had a look at the phabricator project manager but there does not really
seem to be an overview of projects jut an alphabetical list with only the
first 25 or so projects showing. I tried doing searches on summary,
category and classification. But no joy.
I looked at the MediaWiki source code and found that Categories do what
my
categories "bread crumbs" idea does but is a name clash. Really what I
was
trying to express was *classification* anyway and these n classification
category in Wikipedia so that could be used as a base then things like
the
animal kingdom, biology, physics, etc, can be subcateories or classified
under the classification category. So it jut needs bread crumbs
implemented
as an extension that uses the classification category and fits in with a
{{classification ...}} markdown syntax extension.
So anyway I am open to any guidance.
Regards,
Aaron
On 9 October 2016 at 17:46, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Hi Aaron,
You probably want to file these ideas in Phabricator Maniphest:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org. Some of these ideas may already
exist
as Maniphest tasks. Phabricator lets interested users subscribe to the
ideas in order to receive targeted e-mail notifications, provide
feedback,
and it gives us a centralized place to track progress, blockers to
implementation, and more. I'm glad to see you're excited to contribute.
MZMcBride
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