o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o Re: https://lists.purdue.edu/pipermail/citizendium-l/2006-November/000716.html Re: http://www.textop.org/wiki/index.php?title=Level_Forks
Drew, Bill wrote: > > Why not treat this by having the articles get more technical or advanced > the further you get into it. This what good technical writers do and > also the better encyclopedias such as McGraw Encyclopedia of Science and > Technology. > > Bill Drew > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill & All, All I've done here is provide an initial dataset on the current state of level forks in Wikiedia. One of the failings of Wikipedia is that policy decisions are very often made in the absence of real data, whether with regard to the states of the arts in the various subject areas or even with regard to the states of the articles in Wikipedia itself. Most of these level forks were in place before my time in Wikipedia, but from the cases where I answered the WP:AXS (Make Technical Articles Accessible) tag, and from more general knowledge of pedagogy in the various fields, it is easy to guess how the current bi- and tri-furcation naturally arose over time. By the way, the level forks have different degrees of formalization across the various fields -- from Physics, where they have a standard pair of tags for linking "the non-technical introduction" to what they call "the proper encyclopedia article", to areas where various schools of mergists have been at work, typically just throwing out all the info that makes them feel like non-experts. Jon Awbrey o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o inquiry e-lab: http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/ citizendium development forums: http://smf.citizendium.org http://www.textop.org/wiki/index.php?title=User:Jon_Awbrey wikinfo: http://wikinfo.org/wiki.php?title=User:Jon_Awbrey wp review: http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showuser=398 o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
