Do we have any structures of this nature in operation on Wikipedia?
Chad
On 8/24/06, YYK H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all,
I have put some thought on the internal structure of CW and have an
idea so I thought I should post it here. I have illustrated it using
FreeMind (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page)
and I have posted the picture of the mindmap here:
http://zh.campaigns.wikia.com/images/d/d1/ProposedInternalStructure.png
If you also use freemind for mindmapping, let me know and I can e-mail
the mm file to you.
I am not sure if this idea has been considered before but the essence
of the proposal is to organize all the content into template-like
modules and articles will be generated by assembling these modules
together. The organization of the data will essentially be something
like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:BuddhismOpenTask but
not necessary the same look and feel. The goal is to have a logical
organization of language and regions and to allow the contents of the
two area to inter-mix.
As illustrated in the graphic linked above, there are two levels in
the proposed structure. The first level is basically a collection of
modules organized by subdomain according to the language prefix.
Under en.campaigns, we have these example modules.
*Module A
*Module B
*Module F (Translated into English)
*Module E(Translated into English)
*Module C/UK
*Module C/US
*Module C/New Zeland
*Module C/Hong Kong (Translated into English)
*Module C/Spain (Translated into English)
All of these modules are in english language and the corresponding
translation, if they exists, will be in the other language subdomain.
Module C demonstrate how we can organize region specific perspectives
on the same subject.
At the second level, articles are generated by assembling the modules
from the first level. As illustrated in the picture, Module A belong
to its own article and Module B also belong to its own article.
However, module A is also US specific and it doesn't have other
regional specific perspectives. What we can do with this structure is
to have a portal that call on all US specific modules. On the other
hand, if we have an issue that have multiple regional perspectives
(such as Module C), we can have a portal that calls on all the modules
belong regarding that issue.
A real example of this structure would be:
Module A = US Treatment of Prisoner at Guantanamo Bay
Module C = Anti-terrorism Policy.
So we will have articles:
US Treatment of Prisoner at Guantanamo Bay
Portal:US Anti-terrorism Effort
Portal:Anti-terrorism Policy (this will include modules from different region.)
Please let me know if you have any questions or thoughts about this.
I am not sure exactly how this can be accomplished. The only way I
can think of right now is to organize everything into template, but
that's kind of ugly. I wonder if we can selectively call on (or
source) a particular section of an article without putting it into a
template.
YYK Ho
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