User:Hfastedge

I love progress.

First a random topic:

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engrish which talks about the english spoken by the chinese.

Semantically, engrish is really a sub idea of a more general idea, namely, accents.

So u goto to the "What links here" from Engrish, and you see that no page on accents links to it. you'll see that there is in fact no page on accents.

So another part of the change that I propose, is that every page should have a semantic parent or parents (to use similar terminology as my User page: a super-catgery). And when editing a page, you should also have the ability to denote whether some link to topic is a sub-category (or semantic child) of that page.

So given this attempt at clarification, check out my User page's more detailed example again.

There NEEDS to be a way to signify whether a page is a sub-page. This will reduce a lot of clutter.

EG:

Educational Reform in occupied japan. "educational reform" the idea, only applies in this case to occupied japan. Its much easier to develop some notation.

EG:

you're in a page on occupied japan, and u decide to create a new wiki page on educational reform, so use the new notation to show that the link is a sub-category of the current "page"/idea : [[>>| educational reform]]

and if you just searched for "educational reform" it will appear as:

WWII >> Occupied Japan >> Educational reform

Look at the source though, for THIS page, and u will see how its really accomplished. VERY ugly (verbose), very inneficient (can cause data to be lost and miscatagorized more easily).

Also, I think that every page should list it's parent(s) at the top. And that every page should list all the children that no-one has linked to at the bottom.

You'll probably want some sense of the "atomic parent" (something,according to this scheme, has no semantic parent), and this can be the set of carefully controlled main topics u have.

This approach is far closer to how human's think, and will result in a far more useful wikipedia, in my opinion.

Next, there also needs to be a way to resolve links better... since wiki is all about the people...let them do it.

Im sure that many people will fail to link to my current occupied japan page,because its so verbose. but allowing them to actively resolve links will keep things more tightly wound