[Labs-l] Feature Requests: Suggeted new features

Sun Oct 9 14:16:23 UTC 2016

Dear Wikipedia and MediaWiki people,

Example Category and Summary markdown.

Comments inline ...

On 9 October 2016 at 13:37, Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Wikipedia and MediaWiki people,
>
> Hers are some suggested ideas that may allow Wikipedia and MediaWiki to be
> organized better in the future and for the future of organizing the worlds
> open public information.
>
> *Summaries - popup summaries for pages*
>
> Using automated generation of content for the title attribute on the <a>
> tag containing a summary containing either the content from an
> <article><header><section id="summary"> or a designated section from
> Wikimedia markdown a popup summary could be generated for quick browsing
> for definition of terms on hyperlinks. This would vastly aid the user
> experience.
>
>
Example :-

{{summary
In [[biochemistry]], a '''cholinesterase''' or '''choline esterase''' is an
[[esterase]] that lyses [[choline]]-based [[ester]]s, several of which
serve as [[neurotransmitter]]s. Thus, it is either of two [[enzyme]]s that
[[catalyst|catalyze]] the [[hydrolysis]] of these [[cholinergic]]
neurotransmitters, such as breaking [[acetylcholine]] into choline and
[[acetic acid]]. These reactions are necessary to allow a cholinergic
[[neuron]] to return to its resting state after activation.
}}

> *Categories - bread crumb like hierarchical and cross referencing
> categorization and navigation*
> By creating a set of categorical navigation pages the whole of fields of
> knowledge on Wikipedia could be categorized.
>
> By having a set of clickable list of hierarchical categories displayed
> like 'bread crumb' navigation lists under the page title the user could
> quickly navigate this hierarchy.
>
> By adding pop up menus to the separating chevrons with each subcategories
> elements cross category navigation would be made possible.
>
> Double clicking on chevrons should navigate to the categorical navigation
> page.
>
>
Category markdown syntax :-

{{category <category-list>}}

Example :-

{{category [[biochemistry]] [[Brain]] [[Enzyme]] [[esterase]]
[[cholinesterase]]}}

Added to page :-

    https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cholinesterase

The new proposed markdown extensions do not interfere with existing page
rendering

Markdown :-

    https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cholinesterase&action=edit

Hope this is okay !

Regards,

Aaron Gray
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