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 > <[email protected]> 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 >> > _________________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
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