Wikipedia:WikiProject Keywords

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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Keywords. 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.

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[edit] Scope

This WikiProject is for helping wikipedians to understand better how to use keywords to build context and content based on the Five Pillars of Wikipedia. Specifically "...providing context for any given point of view..." and making things like timelines, almanac elements, tables and other tasks easier for editors. The scope is broad:

[edit] Wikipedia

Keywords may help improve Wikipedia's usability by helping readers navigate through related content and provide some framework for the development of advanced utilities for editors working the database, interwiki support, and eventually multilingual support for WikiSound interfaces.

[edit] Generic usage

Keywords have a central function in activities like Mind mapping, AOL usage, Meta content, Database design, Learning Objects, Context frames and a host of other places.

Keyword files, as lists, arrays, etc., are simple objects that are generally easy to compile by normal users and experts alike. They may be attached via <meta> tags in HyperText documents on the World Wide Web. An example from the hidden header of the Wikipedia Main_Page:

        <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
        <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en" dir="ltr">
        <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
        <meta name="KEYWORDS" content="Main Page" /> ...

[edit] Wikimedia

All Wikimedia projects function together using a common infrastructure across different specialized or localized domains. These Sister projects share a lot of functionality and use automation to make the wiki software easier to use and share. But, sometimes human intervention is required to keep things linked properly, fight off vandals, and keep things clear, accurate and logical for the readers and the editors.

This WikiProject is here to try to develop some tools for more efficient inter-project and inter-lingual communications between Wiktionary the Wikimedia Commons, Wikiversity, Wikipedia. Keywords are objects that both Wikipedians and Machines can understand. An extention of this project has even formed at Wikia.

[edit] Related pages

[edit] Wiki projects

[edit] Tables

[edit] General concepts

[edit] Inspiration

Just a few of the articles on Meta that have inspired WikiProject_Keywords:

m:Ultimate_Wiktionary | m:RDF metadata | m:RDF | m:Wikidata | m:Field-value_pairs | m:Flexible_Fields_for_MediaWiki | m:Wiktionary | m:Using_Ultimate_Wiktionary_for_Commons | m:Using "ultimate wiktionary" for language training | RfP Wikidata and Ultimate Wiktionary

Ideas at Meta: LiquidThreads | Wikidata | Kendra_evaluation | Ultimate_Wiktionary | WikiSound | (many more)

Wikipedia: TWiki | Proposal_for_intuitive_table_editor_and_namespace | (others)

[edit] Participants

[edit] Abstraction

This is a table you can drop on your user page to keep track of stuff you're working on and navigate to it quicly.

my: keywords | categories | projects | articles | portals | topics
my top: keyword | category | project | article | portal | topic

This is schema for doing project management via a standard WikiProject

current project with
this process | template | object | resource | list | set

This is schema for doing data modeling via a Meta-Object Facility (MOF)

implementation metamodel: server | client | registry | database | queue | log

[edit] Anonymity

You can build a Table of Context just like you can a Table of Contents using the MediaWiki Built-in tools... even if you wish to remain anonymous. Just click on the talk link within an Edit log entry (also on an RC log or the history for an article, and a list of contributions will come up. Assuming you made a series of related posts from a static IP Address or all during a single session, you can see them all in one place. This way, the articles or other entries become related and you can watch them by placing that IP address's talk page on your Wikipedia:watchlist.

This is of course only partial anonymity, but it can create advantages for tracking your interests with a reasonable degree of modesty.

[edit] Example

George Ritzer wrote a book that coined the term "cathedral of consumerism" which is, at the time of this post (11:00, 7 November 2005 (UTC)), a red link (like this one). Now both Cathedral and Consumerism have anonymous contexts - that is - they stand on their own, without an association with Ritzer. Let's assume that "cathedral of consumerism" may simply become a redirect to Ritzer's book. Now as an exercize, find the name of the book and build a reference table for it.

[edit] Identity and Context

The opposite of Anonymity is Identity. The example above reduces the science of sociology to yet another form of commercial pedogogy. When dealing with rights, one must look at the two poles of attribution: privacy and publication. Sometimes it is good for Wikipedians to expand contexts to make more articles. More often though, it is better for us to contract contexts. It best, of course, to find a balence.

[edit] Example of coupling

Seth Eastman an officer in the United States Army marries a gal named Mary Henderson thus turning her into Mary Eastman. She desires to maintain her surname, so she goes by Mary Henderson Eastman. Seth, a budding artist has a real health crisis at the tender age of 53, so he petitions the United States Congress to commission a series of paintings under the auspices of the brand new National Endowment for the Arts. The congress actually arranges for Eastman to go into simi-retirement drawing army pay while he produced the series, thus saving the taxpayer a lot of money by Killing two birds with one stone. To top that off {thus expanding the context) Mary has written a controversial book called Aunt Phillis's Cabin as an antithesis to Uncle Tom's Cabin. So now we discover a rich context and a vast complex of sociological, literary and historically significant factoids that expands to find the couple in an almost George and Martha Washington context. Incredibly, Seth and Mary Eastman have more identification in Wikipedia (per 11:43, 7 November 2005 (UTC)) as a couple than do George and Martha.

[edit] List and Table Structures

Seth and Mary Eastman
REDIRECTS
Seth Eastman
Mary Henderson Mary Eastman Mary Henderson Eastman

Seth and Mary Eastman Article:

References:Death Whoop, Aunt Phillis's Cabin, American Literature, Native American, National Endowment for the Arts, Dakota, Sioux, Fort Snelling, etc.

Keywords: Art, Painter, Author, Illustrator, , controversy, censorship, commisioned paintings, etc.

Table of References
Alphabetical
By type

[edit] Tables of Concept

OK this is going off the deep end and out into the ozone at the same time - Down the drain and Up in smoke -> equilibrium:

[edit] quadrapenia

Executable_and_Linkable_Format

[edit] social justice

Principles: enforcement without abridgement is tyranny!!

policy without inclusion is stupid.
E Pluribus Unix!

[edit] reference articles

Keyword | Lexicography | Lexicology | lexicon

Unified Modeling Language | metamodel | object
Relational database | Data Access Object | hash

Keywords: merit | token | affinity frame | goal | more...

[edit] Infoboxes

{{WikiProjectNotice|Keywords}}

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Wikiproject_History Wikipedia:Wikiportal/History
Wikiproject_Personal_life Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Personal_life
Wikiproject_Mathematics Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Mathematics
Wikiproject_Philosophy Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Philosophy
Wikiproject_Physics Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Physics
Wikiproject_Science Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Science
Wikiproject_Society Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Society
Wikiproject_Technology Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Technology
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[edit] Templates

Wikipedia's finest template: {{subst:sofixit}}

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