https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738
Bryce Glover <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #18 from Bryce Glover <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #11) > What about rethinking the page architecture - converting sections into > subpages > and including them into an article themselves (which could be watched > separetely)? Sorry for butting into this conversation, but I wanted to put in my two cents: I agree with Jan on his thinking that the MediaWiki software should eventually have the ability to compose pages from multiple sections stored in sub-pages. The only problem with that would occur when users attempted to edit the entire page. Would the editor go grab the wikicode from every single sub-page and merge it into a super-page for the duration of the editing session before separating everything back out once the user saved his or her changes? That would be…relatively complicated, to say the least, but it would probably be better than having to fetch each section's edit page for simultaneous and continuous display of each of those page's edit boxes. I do think, though, that the MediaWiki software needs to move toward this kind of an implementation when it comes to sections. Such a design would make it possible for cross- and inter-wiki editing of shared sections that could be independently arranged into articles on each wiki such that Wikipedia might eventually become what I guess you would essentially call a superset of all existing wikis in terms of content. The diff functionality would most likely have to undergo some revisions to make it resilient enough to handle differences between articles and sections not only across time, as it does now, but also across the space consumed by all of the servers that maintain wikis run on top of the MediaWiki software. The plus side to this would, of course, be that Wikipedia could reflect updates made to pages on other wikis dedicated to more specialized domains of knowledge. For example, WikiProjects could be expanded to include partnerships with wikis dealing with similar content; users would probably find this very useful in the initial stages of the possible deployment of the feature set which I am using this post to propose because of how WikiProjects could collaborate with other wikis to merge existing articles and sections such that their final versions rid the different websites' content of any disparity that might currently exist between them. Another advantage of cross-wiki article hosting would obviously have to do with the fact that such a setup would create a natural backup scheme for every single wiki on the Internet; if one wiki goes down for temporary maintenance, for example, the content that users wish to access could be delivered to them from another wiki via a server-side suggestion mechanism. Unfortunately, these ideas probably don't all belong under this bug's jurisdiction, which, as I understand it, deals only with the separation of articles into their constituent sections. In any case, I support this measure at the very least; if you think that any of my ideas have merit, then could you kindly direct me to a place where they might be useful? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
