[Labs-l] Feature Requests: Suggeted new features - PDF Scraping and creating living working documents

Mon Oct 10 01:02:37 UTC 2016

Aaron, this sounds rather a lot like Wikisource! :-) What is there
that's missing from Wikisource that your idea requires? Is it the
ability to modify the content? Because I wonder if Wikiversity might
fill that niche?

—sam

On Sun, 9 Oct 2016, at 09:19 PM, Aaron Gray wrote:
> *Wikimedia Documents - PDF Scraping and creating living working
> documents*
>
> Wikimedia should have a way of creating documents that can easily be
> imported and exported to PDF, Word and other formats.
>
>  - Document versioning as well as history should be able to be
>    provided.
>  - Authorship and control of authorship I also needed.
>  - Fixed and editable status should also be provided
>  - Document licensing should also be feature, this should allow
>    management of information from different sources.
> Document licensing should allow copying and collation to be done in
> controlled way allowing information dissemination.
>
> By scraping the content of PDF documents that are put into the public
> domain or under open license that permits modification and that
> permission is given to subsume and render them into MediaWiki Pages in
> modifiable state. Those that are in the public domain or under a fixed
> content license may still be rendered into MediaWiki Pages.
>
> Quick access to the original document and modification history
> should be mandatory at the top of every original document page.
> Auto quotations and citations can also be generated at the bottom
> of the pages
>
> More to come ...
>
> Regards,
>
> Aaron Gray
>
>
> 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.
>>
>> *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.
>>
>> *QuickLink - Quick Link Creation*
>>
>> A hotkey and JavaScript script could allow the creation of links from
>> a selected highlighted bit of normal text to lookup a term, display
>> its summary and allow the user to confirm the generation of a new
>> hyperlink very quickly without having to edit markdown.
>> **
>> *Move towards semantic content*
>>
>> By using new HTML elements like <article>, <section> and <header> and
>> id's and classes more of a semantic mapping of content may be
>> established. Tis maybe done incrementally and also for example by a
>> bot auto generating new summary information that maybe verified by
>> either users or editors for publishing.
>>
>> *API*
>> **
>> API's from summaries, categories, and semantic content should be made
>> available.
>>
>> More to come ...
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Aaron Gray
>>
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