History of Quotation/Talk

	Revision 3 . . July 4, 2001 8:37 pm by Css [Is metadata the solution?]
	Revision 2 . . July 4, 2001 1:23 pm by Sjc

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Nice suggestion. One small problem mitigates against this from my point of view, (and Larry will probably see this as an overwhelming argument against the use of sub-pages :-) ), and that is where the subject is already a sub-page e.g. if we wanted to add the Winston Churchill quote about 'Never have so many' etc, to the Battle of Britain page as a /Quotation? page we would be seriously stuffed since the Battle of Britain is already a sub-page of World War II. In seriousness, though, it really does reinforce Larry's argument against the widespread use of sub-pages, or certainly does until the point comes with wiki where we can nest sub-pages more or less ad infinitum, at which point we will probably want to fully review the whole taxonomy of wikipedia in any case. sjc

Nice suggestion. One small problem mitigates against this from my point of view, (and Larry will probably see this as an overwhelming argument against the use of sub-pages :-) ), and that is where the subject is already a sub-page e.g. if we wanted to add the Winston Churchill quote about 'Never have so many' etc, to the Battle of Britain page as a /Quotation? page we would be seriously stuffed since the Battle of Britain is already a sub-page of World War II. In seriousness, though, it really does reinforce Larry's argument against the widespread use of sub-pages, or certainly does until the point comes with wiki where we can nest sub-pages more or less ad infinitum, at which point we will probably want to fully review the whole taxonomy of wikipedia in any case. sjc Perhaps we should resort to metadata instead of the subpage solution. Each quotation gets its own page, like Ich bin ein Berliner, with comments etc. On the related metadata page we then list appropriate keywords, like "Kennedy", "Berlin", "Cold war", "International affairs", etc. This would allow automatic generation of a list of quotations appropriate for a certain topic. In the same way automatic lists of references could be generated. Make an entry for the book and a metadata page with information about context. -- Css