I am thinking maybe we could use subdomains for layperson, and for schools, and maybe universities to have specialized [approved] content also ? Just an idea given this possible mechanism.
On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 at 20:15, Aaron Gray <aaronngray.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you please keep suggestions and pragmatics coming in ! > > I looked at this problem some time ago and the extra programming for what > I am proposing is quite minimal utilizing existing MediaWiki libraries and > adding extra code to support the tag structure with defaulting to make it > seamless to existing articles. > > I really think this would increase the usability and audience of > Wikipedia and also might possibly allow us to integrate content from other > Wikipedia projects. > > Regards, > > Aaron > > > On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 at 07:57, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> > wrote: > >> The suggestions that bring up the Simple English Wikipedia miss the fact >> that it only covers the English language, which most people don't know, >> and >> doesn't do almost anything for the many other languages of the world. (I'm >> saying "almost anything" because I know that there are people who prefer >> to >> translate articles from the Simple English Wikipedia, and this indirectly >> benefits other languages.) >> >> One thing about how Wikipedia works that practically no-one ever >> challenges >> is that every page title is associated with a page, and the page is always >> a single big blob of sections, section headings, templates and magic >> words. >> >> What if it was not a single blob? >> >> What if all the magic words, such as NOTOC, DISPLAYTITLE, and DEFAULTSORT >> moved to a separate metadata storage? >> >> More closely to this thread's topic, what if at least some sections that >> all or most pages have were stored separately, so that it would be >> possible >> to parse and render them semantically? The References section, for >> example, >> is something that many pages have. What if it could be separated from the >> prose blob and stored separately, so that it would be parsed semantically >> for different screens and contexts, such as Wikicite? Currently its >> rendering and storage is heavily biased for desktop and wiki syntax >> editing, and suboptimal for mobile display and editing, as well as for >> translation. >> >> And most closely to the thread's original topic, what if one page could >> have several lead sections? Sure, this can be done now with hacks such as >> templates and namespaces, but these are still hacks: they are not >> semantic, >> not portable across languages, and not easily machine-readable. >> >> Of course, doing all these things would require major, major changes in >> how >> Wikipedia's software works. Developers would have to write a lot of code >> and editors would have to get used to new things. But sometimes it's worth >> thinking our of the box instead of saying "that's not how Wikipedia >> works". >> >> בתאריך שבת, 9 בפבר׳ 2019, 02:16, מאת Aaron Gray < >> aaronngray.li...@gmail.com >> >: >> >> > I am suggesting WikiPedia has context-sensitive articles so if you are a >> > kid or a layperson or an expert in a field you get a different >> > introduction. >> > >> > Often the reason people don't read or use WikiPedia is articles are too >> > complex at the start. >> > >> > Having an adaptive setting that can be chosen but users as default needs >> > facilitating by WikiMedia technology. >> > >> > Thoughts and ideas and possible implementation ideas on this idea are >> > welcomed. >> > >> > Regards, >> > >> > Aaron >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Aaron Gray >> > >> > Independent Open Source Software Engineer, Computer Language Researcher, >> > Information Theorist, and amateur computer scientist. >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wiki-research-l mailing list >> > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> > > > -- > Aaron Gray > > Independent Open Source Software Engineer, Computer Language Researcher, > Information Theorist, and amateur computer scientist. > -- Aaron Gray Independent Open Source Software Engineer, Computer Language Researcher, Information Theorist, and amateur computer scientist. _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
