On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Mark Roest <marklro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just followed the link to the old discussion and the categories and > content that were done around 2009. > > Under Category:Alternative / Renewable Energy, I found the following: > > In Solomon Islands you can find coconut everywhere ..." > > which led to a discussion of coconut biodiesel production and values. That > was it for content. ... > > In summary, it is the intersection of challenge, eco-region / ecosystem, > and culture that define which technologies and adaptations are sustainable > and appropriate, so a categorizing system that follows this principle and > uses visualization can, done well, reach the level of an affordance -- > something that affords the user an unequivocally positive experience, > intuitive, effective, effortless (relatively) and pleasant / elegant. Then > there is nothing left but to fill in the bins with just the right options! > Hi Mark, I completely agree with your email response describing how Category:Alternative / Renewable Energy<http://wikieducator.org/Category:Alternative_/_Renewable_Energy> is not effective as a category. In fact this particular page, in the Category namespace, offers specific content, which is not the intent of a category page. I believe that category pages should offer only an intro about the topic of the category and maybe a bit more about how pages and subcategories were/are added. See the category for WE's Math glossary<http://wikieducator.org/Category:Math_glossary>as an example. I suggest that the content on the Category:Alternative / Renewable Energy<http://wikieducator.org/Category:Alternative_/_Renewable_Energy> be moved to a page specific to using coconuts to create bio-fuel. That page can then be added to the alternative/renewable energy category, as well as any others to which it applies (e.g., Solomon Islands?). I have only a cursory knowledge of this area; anyone have suggestions for what the page should be named? As to your suggestion for a more coherent category structure in this area, again, I agree with you. I believe that there are many aspects of WE's category structure which fail to encompass a topic fully. There is much work to do in this respect. Thank you for your thoughts as to the use of categories in WE generally, and in this specific instance. You are welcome to join our categories workgroup <http://wikieducator.org/Workgroup:Categories> if you are interested to help with the big picture, and you are welcome to work to organize the materials related to alternative/renewable energy, more specifically to, as you say, afford a better experience for the user. Alison User:ASnieckus <http://wikieducator.org/User:ASnieckus> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
