Wikipedia:WikiProject Bible/Archive
Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to The Bible. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.
Title
WikiProject on the Bible
Scope
This WikiProject aims primarily to organize information concerning the Bible, particularly sorting out the various canons of Scripture, formatting, etc.
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Structure
Hierarchy definition
This is under the grouping of projects relating to religion.
Goals
- Unify the presentations of the biblical canon (Cf. Apocrypha, Biblical canon, Books of the Bible, Bible and Tanakh, Septuagint, Old Testament, New Testament). I like the table in "Biblical Canon", but it may not be the best way to present the information.
- Unify presentation of the individual books of the Bible.
- Sidebars in the various books of the Tanakh use nifty Tanakh templates, but this assumes the Jewish ordering of the books and "hides" the deuterocanonicals. Is a solution possible without creating a monster?
- Before going too far too fast with these goals, I think it is important to point out that the participants in a parallel wikipedia project have taken the exact opposite approach. Please read:
- Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Judaism#The_Bible
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Judaism#Jewish_vs._Christian_perspectives
Not everyone agrees with your stated goal that unification of articles is a positive thing at all. On the contrary, the space and pluralism of Wikipedia make it possible to develope topical encyclopedias (along the lines of "Encyclopedia Judaica" and/or "The Catholic Encyclopedia"). Let's try not to run into a conflict between two overlapping projects. Dovi 17:52, Sep 14, 2004 (UTC)
- Dovi, even assuming we want two copies of some articles, this is not the case! This project wouldn't have been created if all we had was "Tanakh" for the Jewish view and "Old Testament" for the Christian view. The fact of the matter is that Tanakh contains an awful lot of comparsions with the Chrisitian views, "Old Testament" contains an awful lot of comparisons with the Jewish views, and there is the Bible page, and at least 3 pages dedicated to the comparison alone! That's having the same information in 7 pages! Gadykozma 18:11, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- We don't want to step on each other's feet, but we need to make the information available to the people who need it. A parallel series of Bible articles is probably the best thing for a fervant Jew or a fervant Christian, but maybe not for "the man on the street" who wants an overview -- he might end up reading two largely overlapping pages just to get the few nuggets of difference (in certain cases)....
- Maybe each article should have a general section (of what we can agree on) and sections for Jewish interpretation and Christian (when necessary Cath, Prot, Orth) interpretation. We could theoretically put a Jewish infobox in the Jewish section and a Christian one in the Christian section, so that those readers can browse the Bible in order.
- In any case, the canon article have got to be fixed somehow... -- Mpolo 18:49, Sep 14, 2004 (UTC)
General strategy and discussion forums
Infoboxes
Not yet defined.
Templates
Not yet defined. There exist Ketuvim, Torah, and Nevi'im templates in use.