Thanks for the feedback.
My idea is to initially take the data from the intro of wiki page, but when somebody suggests a change, then the suggestions will be put up for voting. Most voted suggestion will go onto the card.
I really like that idea of putting special tags for syncing. But, won't that change the literal structure of the main article?
For example: If I use these tags on Madonna's wikipage,
"Madonna Louise Ciccone[1] (/t??'ko?ne?/ chi-koh-nay; born August 16, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, director, dancer, and entrepreneur. <card> Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance and performed in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy.</card> <br /> Madonna is known for continuously reinventing both her music and image, and for retaining a standard of autonomy within the recording industry. She attained immense popularity by pushing the boundaries of lyrical content in mainstream popular music and imagery in her music videos, which became a fixture on MTV. Critics have praised her....."
And I change the card content to something like.."An influential pop culture icon, Madonna is known for continuously reinventing her music and image. Her work often include explicit content which drives her into controversies. (And then some of her best musics.)"
In this particular case, two things are happening: 1. The previous data that was irrelevant as card content but was relevant and good for the main article is now gone. 2. The literal structure of the article is damaged. There may be immediate repetition of information, or sudden change in the flow of article, or something else like that.
And that's why I am planning to either save its definition part on Wikidata or make its own database/table for saving. What do you think? Is there any other better solution for this problem? One thing that comes to my mind is, we can fetch it from the wiki page as long as it's not changed from it's initial version and once changed we can then, save it in database and call from there. But, this will make it fragmented :-/
On 7 April 2013 21:40, Petr Bena benapetr@gmail.com wrote:
I think you should describe more how these cards are supposed to be created. I think there should be special elements in wiki code that can mark some text as something that is supposed to be in wiki card.
Like:
''<card>'John Fitzgerald''' "'''Jack'''" '''Kennedy''' (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials '''JFK''', was the [[List of Presidents of the United States|35th]] [[President of the United States]]</card>, serving from 1961 until [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|his death]] in 1963.
(note the "card" markup tags)
This way you could update the card content together with article so that you would ensure it's synced
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Petr Bena benapetr@gmail.com wrote:
On first sight I was like WTF is he proposing.
Then I read your proposal and it sounds very nice. I hope you will be able to make it happen.
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Gaurav Chawla grviitr@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I am Gaurav Chawla, an undergraduate student at IIT Roorkee, India. I am applying for this year's Google Summer of Code as a developer for Wikimedia. For the past few days, I have been researching about any new improvement or extension in funtionality that can be introduced to this awesome wiki and finally came up with this idea: WikIcards - small information cards. I have drafted a project proposal with full description of WikIcards and also a sample structure of it at
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Grv99
I have also filed it as an extension request (Bug 46970) at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46970
I request you to go through this new project and give your suggestions
and
feedback. You can give the feedback on the bug report. Alternatively,
you
can also add your suggestions at "Suggestions section" near the end of
the
project proposal page. Please comment on its feasibility too.
Hoping for a good response.
Thank you.
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