[Labs-l] Feature Requests: Suggeted new features

Sun Oct 9 14:22:30 UTC 2016

Sorry had for the noise I had to undo that page mod as it ended up
rendering after all I thought I had checked it !

Ideally additional undefined {{ }} modifications should no be rendered !

Regards,

Aaron Gray

On 9 October 2016 at 15:16, Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 :-
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>     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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