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Wiki Philosophy:

Interesting projects [edit]

Wikiversity assistant teacher program [edit]

Wikikids [edit]

Semipostal stamps [edit]

File:Semipostal-stamps-banner-example.png

I propose to invite users to put semipostal stamps on email. The proposal can be found in the OLPC wiki: Semipostal stamp for email. An endorsement from the Wikimedia foundation might help to get the project off the ground and it might serve as a fundraising project, of course. The Wikimedia foundation could also promote fundraising for others as a fundraising partner (e.g. stamps with the Wikipedia logo but only 5% of the revenue for the Wikimedia foundation and 5% for OLPC but 45% for Unicef and 45% for Médecins Sans Frontières).

Technical ideas for wikis [edit]

  • Verifiable links to anchors would allow a "What links here" function for anchors and would allow to mark references to nonexistent anchors like links to nonexistent pages. This would make setting and removing links to anchors in pages much more convenient. (BugID 9106)
    • A move/rename section function could allow to move a section/anchor into another page or to raise it to an independent page or sub-page, optionally redirecting all references in other pages to the new name.
  • Generated intersections for categories would allow more convenient browsing of categories. (e.g. intersecting education:Category:Ages 4 and up with education:Category:Linux without having to recategorize invididual pages). It could also be useful for navigation in Wikinews. (BugID 5244, see also: CatScan)
  • Comboboxes would allow multiple choice cloze, which may be interesting for educational applications. (e.g.: This {{multiplechoice|is|was|would be|will be|has been}} a good idea.)
  • NNTP for discussions could complement talk pages. Actual discussion could be held on a news channel and the results of discussions could be summarized on the talk page. The need to archive Talk pages would be reduced and the smalltalk content of discussions would conveniently expire automatically in the news system. News channels could be assigned to the more important categories. Discussions for articles could be posted to the news channel(s) of an article's categories or super-categories thereof, if no immediate category had an assigned channel. (Talk:LiquidThreads#LiquidThreads to complement Talk pages, not to substitute them)
  • Categories with limited scope could categorize sub-pages of a page but be restricted in visibility to these sub-pages. This could be useful in wikiversity, e.g. for a category "Exercises" to a lesson or course. Sub-pages would only appear with the name of the sub-page itself in such a category. A special syntax could allow access from outside the scope: [[Category://<scope identifier (e.g. page name)>.<category name>]] (BugID 9107)
  • Restricting HTML markup to templates may result in cleaner wiki pages.
  • End-template tags: {{special_section}} ... {{/special_section}}. Both parts could be contained in one template page, the second part would follow an == End == section header. (BugID 9109)
  • Google Co-op: Wiki interfacing
  • {{INCLUDING_PAGE}} for the name of the including page of a template when that page is included by another page (it is not {{PAGENAME}}). (BugID 9105)
    • Motivation: A page (P) may include sub-pages (P1 ... Pn) and the sub-pages could have their own talk pages. A header template (H) included by P1 ... Pn would need to refer to [[{{TALKSPACEE}}:{{INCLUDING_PAGE}}|talk]] so a reader of P could immediately reach the individual talk pages conveniently. (example: [2])
  • Special:Export support for exporting whole categories and their sub-categories. (BugID 9108)
  • parser function to query the name of enclosing sections: {{#section-name:<section level>}} (BugID 9240)
  • edit sections by name (instead of by number) and allow to create sections with previously nonexistent names as first or last sub-section of existing sections. (BugID 9239)
  • __ADD_SECTIONS_AS_SUB_PAGES__ (Bug #9242)
  • Include path for templates. A set of pages (e.g. a Wikibook) may share the same templates. It is currently not possible to make the required templates sub-pages of one page and to allow the other pages to access them. (BugID #11361)
  • http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Fasten/TestWiki (BugID #17129)
  • http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal_talk:Article_modification_alert#Multiple_watchlists

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