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From: Wikipedia-l <wikipedia-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org> on behalf of Steve
Cooney <stevencooney(a)yahoo.com>
Sent: October 23, 2017 5:58 PM
To: wikipedia-l(a)wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Ideas of development
Some ideas:
* Add topical forums to Wikipedia, by a rough count around eighty different topics. The
encyclopedia article (primarily the one in the current global common language of American
English) is the central document which contains the facts around any particular issue, and
forums serve not just as a centralized discussion place around the article, but serve as
more general discussion places and a way of coordinating article development. Currently
discussion about article development tends to be spread out across too many talk pages and
WikiProject pages tend to be too development oriented.
* Integrate Wiktionary and Wikidata entries in Wikipedia searches. As a technical idea
where the problem is one of "'this particular data belongs in an encyclopedia,
while this other nuancedly-different set belongs in a dictionary." Specifically
dealing with Wiktionary and Wikidata because together with Wikipedia these should cover
the whole Semantic Field.
* Similar to above: Clicking on links is like doing a specific search.. deliver similar
Wikidata and Wiktionary entries at top in addition to going to article. Clicking on links
has that pidgeon-holing problem as well, of this topic (a link is basically a search entry
already filled-out for you). Solution.. show a little related metadata at the top, and as
a consequence.. continued..
* Formalize the way disambiguation links are handled. An approach to developing Wikipedia
is simply covering all possible topics. Including Wiktionary and Wikidata entries in
Wikipedia searches is a technical idea that helps develop these other two projects and
also lets them and their different handling help Wikipedia build and integrate articles,
and Wikidata allows the idea of including.. continued..
* Categorical language to cover the whole Semantic Field of ideas (building a dictionary
of ideas, in term and phrase forms, which formalize "talking generally"):
Talking about a thing might receive suppression (from either or both governments in the
World) because talking about a thing along would (or in some legalistic arguments
"might") reveal secrets about people. But news and history still have to be
documented based on a reporting of events, and talking categorically is a way to say
what's going on without being "defaming," because we aren't being
specific.
* Update opinion/policy regarding Machine translation-transformation and its
implementation. The idea of each language getting its own wiki was the open ended
approach, and was successful even though it has had some drawbacks. The other is using the
big languages to receive users into more and more assisted arenas, where machine
translation (contract with Army/Google) is mature enough to integrate into the editing and
discussion form.
* Political: Fortify against the slippery slope that lets defamation arguments receive
automatic or near-automatic suppression. Indicate what laws govern Wikipedia suppression
and keep only to those suppressions to which the law has power and then indicate publicly
the categorical type of suppression enacted.
* The idea of "suppression" (was called "oversight," really..) as
permissible gets to that issue much debated about what kind of world are we going to
have.. does it have too much suppression of reporting in it, such that there are things
that we are categorically forbidden from reporting.. even though we in the United States
and other non-monarchial regions do not live by an anti-democratic philosophy of
government..
Steven Cooneyeditor class of 2002
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