On 2015-11-03, MZMcBride <z(a)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