Grants talk:IEG/Understanding the English Wikipedia Category System
Few questions
Thanks for sharing your idea and how this can improve the user experience. After reading the 95% of your idea, I have a few questions:
- What do you think about Wikidata and the future of how we categorize?, the proposed taxonomy system is a future step in Wikidata (or will be, I don't know), because is related with web semantic (or semantics, as you want): subject + verb + noun.
- Is this idea extensible in other Wikipedias?.
- About "Categorization guidelines", do you want write a new guideline or just a recommendation?
- About "Usage of category links", what tool(s) do you use to measure the category links? (just a question).
Regards Superzerocool (talk) 11:31, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
Responses
[I reformatted your list of questions from bulleted to numbered for easier referencing.]
- Loading and managing common data centrally makes so much sense. Although there are some upfront development costs, once the functionality is implemented, many sites benefit when data is added, changed, or deleted. One analogy is database normalization: Wikidata helps us achieve a deeper level of "normalization" in the Wikimedia infosphere.
- I certainly hope so!
- I will take the standard Wikimedia (and public scholarship) approach: I will work with Wikimedia communities throughout the project. We as a community can decide whether it makes more sense for me to just provide my analysis of the categorization guidelines, to make recommendations about the guidelines, to work with other Wikimedians to draft proposed categorization guideline revisions, etc.
- I will use various existing Wikimedia community statistics and tools (such as the API) for the project, as well as doing my own programming.
Thanks for asking your questions! Libcub (talk) 04:39, 7 April 2014 (UTC)