On Monday, Oct 13, 2003, at 09:36 Europe/Rome, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
Le Dimanche, 12 oct 2003, à 17:55 Europe/Zurich, Stefano Mazzocchi a écrit :On Sunday, Oct 12, 2003, at 16:13 Europe/Rome, Alan Gutierrez wrote:....Has anyone discussed how to impose an outline on a Wiki?
yes. there are some proposals on the table, ranging from simple to futuristic....
I think we should concentrate on the simple one for now, maybe by creating an experimental block to work on a prototype?
We could copy the existing docs there, assign unique IDs to them and start playing with trails.
Having permanent IDs leaves room for the futuristic stuff to emerge.
exactly, create a foundation solid enough for us to build upon, but without forcing the futuristic stuff to slow us down.
...[note: this is getting closer to what topic maps are about! see topicmaps.org, even if, IMO, it wouldn't make sense to use topic maps for this because they are much more complex]
Some form of topic map would be useful to build "what's related" info though, which helps navigation and discovery a lot.
Yes, but such a topic maps would have to be human edited. this is what scares me. tools for ontology creation (like Protege, http://protege.stanford.edu/ for example) are available but are *incredibly* complex to to use.
<snip very-interesting-futuristic-stuff> Thanks for sharing this!
my pleasure.
I'm going to research a lot on this in the future and I would like to use the cocoon community as a "beta testing" of the community dynamics on top of this. it might take a while, but I'm a patient guy ;-)
-- Stefano.
