This talk page is for archive organization, and the template
Talk:Barack Obama/topics |
Hello folks, Im one of the regular mediators.
I anticipate much more discussion on this article, and as such I want to try an experiment for a high-traffic controversial topic talk page, (this seems to qualify).
The idea is to organize the talk page according to a topic-based system, archiving the discussion in a topical way, rather than just in a linear way.
The first thing to do would be to work out a system for doing this. The basic system would be a topical list at the top, which link to subpages titled after the major issues relevant to this article. There are of course some potential problems with people editing other peoples comments - the important rule must be to be principled and consistent - making linkages to specific archive sections.
Im curious how this sounds to people. Please offer your feedback at Talk:Barack Obama/Organisation. - Ste| vertigo 09:08, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
This sounds like an interesting and fruitful idea - if the legitimate purpose of a talk page is to discuss the article itself, a talk page could be organized to mirror the organization of the underlying article at a given point in real time. This setup could enable relatively rapid and efficient links between different sections of a lengthy article and the relevant sections of an even more lengthy talk page.
Of course the underlying article's organization might change drastically after the article's talk page was reorganized. No solution is perfect. Bigturtle 22:36, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi, as a WikiGnome and since we are warming up on 99 archives, I would like to help put the "Topic-based archive" into practice. Keeping Wikipedia:Talk_page_guidelines and Wikipedia:Refactoring_talk_pages in mind...here is what I propose. (I figure on giving it a couple days before I actually start for discussion). Also, this section is open for any edits. -- Mjquin_id ( talk) 01:47, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
Edit/add anything you can think of directly above.
Parallel archives may work, alternately, can we simply create an archive index page? We could create entries by topic, with each link could go directly to the section archived. For example: Abortion - 12.3, 57.13, 67.2, where it's archive and section directly linked? In fact, i'd wager that if done in a text program, some bot or python type app could be built to grab the actual URLS and write them into the index, saving someone a fat load of cut n pasting. A single index page, though large, would be far more centralized than parallel indexes, and could be split into a-m and n-z if needed. ThuranX ( talk) 06:50, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Isn't Obama the first half Black and half White President?
14:57, 24 January 2009 user:24.60.70.52
Should these be taken from:
Background · Illinois Senate · US Senate
Political positions · Public image · Family
2008 primaries · Obama–Biden campaign
Transition · Inauguration · Presidency
03:18, 25 January 2009 user:Mjquin id
This talk page is for archive organization, and the template
Talk:Barack Obama/topics |
Hello folks, Im one of the regular mediators.
I anticipate much more discussion on this article, and as such I want to try an experiment for a high-traffic controversial topic talk page, (this seems to qualify).
The idea is to organize the talk page according to a topic-based system, archiving the discussion in a topical way, rather than just in a linear way.
The first thing to do would be to work out a system for doing this. The basic system would be a topical list at the top, which link to subpages titled after the major issues relevant to this article. There are of course some potential problems with people editing other peoples comments - the important rule must be to be principled and consistent - making linkages to specific archive sections.
Im curious how this sounds to people. Please offer your feedback at Talk:Barack Obama/Organisation. - Ste| vertigo 09:08, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
This sounds like an interesting and fruitful idea - if the legitimate purpose of a talk page is to discuss the article itself, a talk page could be organized to mirror the organization of the underlying article at a given point in real time. This setup could enable relatively rapid and efficient links between different sections of a lengthy article and the relevant sections of an even more lengthy talk page.
Of course the underlying article's organization might change drastically after the article's talk page was reorganized. No solution is perfect. Bigturtle 22:36, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi, as a WikiGnome and since we are warming up on 99 archives, I would like to help put the "Topic-based archive" into practice. Keeping Wikipedia:Talk_page_guidelines and Wikipedia:Refactoring_talk_pages in mind...here is what I propose. (I figure on giving it a couple days before I actually start for discussion). Also, this section is open for any edits. -- Mjquin_id ( talk) 01:47, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
Edit/add anything you can think of directly above.
Parallel archives may work, alternately, can we simply create an archive index page? We could create entries by topic, with each link could go directly to the section archived. For example: Abortion - 12.3, 57.13, 67.2, where it's archive and section directly linked? In fact, i'd wager that if done in a text program, some bot or python type app could be built to grab the actual URLS and write them into the index, saving someone a fat load of cut n pasting. A single index page, though large, would be far more centralized than parallel indexes, and could be split into a-m and n-z if needed. ThuranX ( talk) 06:50, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Isn't Obama the first half Black and half White President?
14:57, 24 January 2009 user:24.60.70.52
Should these be taken from:
Background · Illinois Senate · US Senate
Political positions · Public image · Family
2008 primaries · Obama–Biden campaign
Transition · Inauguration · Presidency
03:18, 25 January 2009 user:Mjquin id