WikiCategory
Name-Ideas for this Project-Proposal[edit]
- WikiCategory
- WikiLink
- WikiCategoryNet
- WikiInternet
- WikiCategoryLink
What already exists[edit]
Wikimedia now has books, dicitionarys, wikipedia and much more. I'd like to suggest one whole new aspect:
The Proposal[edit]
Why don't add a Link-Directory, sorted by Category (like yahoo has), but where everybody may add his own site to one or more categories he/she thinks it belongs.
I know, link-lists are not new, but with the acceptance of the wikimedia foundation this could become the first global directory of all ;-) And the difference to sth. like yahoo is that everybody may create categories and add links himself!
Implementation ideas[edit]
Sure this would need some new kind of software with sth. like the following features:
- Add link to category, maybe give short title (max. 255 chars)
- create new category
- all links of one leaf-category should be displayed in random order
- add rating to page-quality, this of course should affect the order of display
- add rating like 'category fits', 'suggest category xxx for this page', 'category of this page is wrong for me'
- links should be findable in different categories
- automatically shift links to suggested categories if some rating-barriers are reached (like 50% said 'wrong category' and 60% suggested the same other category)
- maybe add special-registration-categories (or sth. like adult-prove) for exotic links
- all the other features wikipedia already offers, like ip-ban, remove all submits from ip xxx/user xxx, etc.
- automatically generate index-links like [A B C D ... Z] where more than say 50 sub-categories or links exist
- always display complete category-path sb. just entered on top of page
Example[edit]
Car->Company->Mercedes->SL-250-> .. href://xxx sth. about SL-250
Company->more than 50.000 employees->Germany->Automobile->Mercedes->SL-250-> .. href://xxx same like above
.. and so on..
Clue[edit]
The clue about all of this is that there is not only one way of finding what you want but lots.