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From: | Oliver Denzel |
Subject: | [Bug-gne]Re: Bug-gne digest, Vol 1 #52 - 1 msg |
Date: | Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:06:46 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; de-DE; m18) Gecko/20010131 Netscape6/6.01 |
Hi all!
A conversion utility would be a good thing. We also should have a database that stores which user can understand what units. We should think about which metadata we need about an article, because there are a few non - obvious. I think we need a link to the group of units that is used, some kind of rating (for beginners, experts, ...), a category (that we can have access to special metadata). It should also somehow link to articles on the same topic.- We should think about translating not onlyalnguage but also units. This would could be done automatically. (Conversion from miles to kilometers e.g.)How about we just provide a conversion utility? As opposed to trying to integrate this into all of the articles. Would be a good project for somebody to try in Perl or PHP or something...
- What do we want to do about the country stuff? Notevery country is accepted by every other country. So how to adress this in a translation? Or stuff that has to be changed very much because the reader of the translation otherwise doesn't get the meaning?Well if a Chinese person translates an article which talks about Taiwan, then they can just talk about it as a state of China or something. They don't have to recognise it as a nation state, and any other country problems won't be too big a problem. Afterall, by not recognising Taiwan or Afghanistan as nations, authors are only offering opinions in the end, not a fact.
I thought more on the problem of user registration and metadata / links. You would have to have a different form for users from china and taiwan. But how to know this before they enter that? And if you want to link to some of the most important presidents of asian countries, you would have to have a version with and one without the taiwanese president.
It would also help the firstauthor to get a structure for his article.No two articles can be completely structures in the same way. Beyond having a title, synopsis and body, articles will always have different layouts (think of a political essay being structured in the same way as a review of a book or as an explanation of zero-point energy). So we can't really ask for a particular structure, only that articles are in some way structured.
I thought more on two or more articles on the same topic, e.g. on countries or molecules . For countries it would be possible to describe germany with three parts, G. in the past, present and future, the USA with geography, people, culture and military and hte UK by mentioning only the figures of statistics. In this way the reader can't compare to similar entries very well. It would also help us to get links between articles in the beginning, because we would know something about the subject of the article. (A dropdown with all countries for example if you write an article on a president or on states of countries or alliences of countries)
Ciao Oli D.
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