[Campaigns-l] Internal Structure Proposal

[Chad Lupkes]

Do we have any structures of this nature in operation on Wikipedia?

Chad


On 8/24/06, YYK H <y2keynes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have put some thought on the internal structure of CW and have an
> idea so I thought I should post it here.  I have illustrated it using
> FreeMind (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page)
> and I have posted the picture of the mindmap here:
> http://zh.campaigns.wikia.com/images/d/d1/ProposedInternalStructure.png
> If you also use freemind for mindmapping, let me know and I can e-mail
> the mm file to you.
>
> I am not sure if this idea has been considered before but the essence
> of the proposal is to organize all the content into template-like
> modules and articles will be generated by assembling these modules
> together.  The organization of the data will essentially be something
> like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:BuddhismOpenTask but
> not necessary the same look and feel.  The goal is to have a logical
> organization of language and regions and to allow the contents of the
> two area to inter-mix.
>
> As illustrated in the graphic linked above, there are two levels in
> the proposed structure.  The first level is basically a collection of
> modules organized by subdomain according to the language prefix.
> Under en.campaigns, we have these example modules.
> *Module A
> *Module B
> *Module F (Translated into English)
> *Module E(Translated into English)
> *Module C/UK
> *Module C/US
> *Module C/New Zeland
> *Module C/Hong Kong (Translated into English)
> *Module C/Spain (Translated into English)
>
> All of these modules are in english language and the corresponding
> translation, if they exists, will be in the other language subdomain.
> Module C demonstrate how we can organize region specific perspectives
> on the same subject.
>
> At the second level, articles are generated by assembling the modules
> from the first level.  As illustrated in the picture, Module A belong
> to its own article and Module B also belong to its own article.
> However, module A is also US specific and it doesn't have other
> regional specific perspectives.  What we can do with this structure is
> to have a portal that call on all US specific modules.  On the other
> hand, if we have an issue that have multiple regional perspectives
> (such as Module C), we can have a portal that calls on all the modules
> belong regarding that issue.
>
> A real example of this structure would be:
> Module A = US Treatment of Prisoner at Guantanamo Bay
> Module C = Anti-terrorism Policy.
>
> So we will have articles:
> US Treatment of Prisoner at Guantanamo Bay
> Portal:US Anti-terrorism Effort
> Portal:Anti-terrorism Policy (this will include modules from different
> region.)
>
> Please let me know if you have any questions or thoughts about this.
> I am not sure exactly how this can be accomplished.  The only way I
> can think of right now is to organize everything into template, but
> that's kind of ugly.  I wonder if we can selectively call on (or
> source) a particular section of an article without putting it into a
> template.
>
> YYK Ho
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