Alternate solution, which would require much less special cases: * introduce "<optional type=wikispecies>lots'o'data</optional>" tag, which will ** show the data for everyone who has marked himself as a member of wikispecies project in user settings ** show a link "More detail information" for everyone else; that link will then display the full thing * introduce "<categorytree>" tag, which will show a category tree for the current article ** attribute "super=1" to show the category below, "super=all" to show everything down to the root ** attribute "sub=1" to show the next subcategory, "sub=all" to show them all
This is * relatively easy to hack (hide "optional" section unless this-and-that condition) * usable for many sub-projects like histroy etc. * allows everyone to get all the data without "average" users being squashed by it * fully transparent for searching (search will find keywords in the "optional" secation as well)
If required, we can parse-out the "optional" part for editing. But that's optional ;-)
Magnus
Daniel Mayer wrote:
This sounds interesting...
--- Till Westermayer till@tillwe.de wrote:
How to implement this technically speaking, I don't know, but how about this:
- The Wikispecies interface only shows article tagged with
Category:Wikispecies (or whatever is the best category).
- This project uses a specific parser, allowing for the implementation
of tree navigation and a more "scientifically" looking output of data (that can be found in the taxabox).
- Maybe other data is in the articles used as source for Wikispecies and
hidden somehow (via a special comment mode or some other specialized tag in the article, or even as additional stored data in a separate db, accessed via the article name = scientific species name as key)
- "Edit this entry" in the Wikispecies interface would bring up a window
consisting of:
- the wikipedia edit window showing the source text - additional data input fields
- A user in the wikipedia proper will only see the wikipedia article,
but not the additional data. The only thing other for them is the "Category:Wikispecies" tag (which would explain, when opened as article, what Wikispecies project is and how to access it in the "scientific" interface).
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