Restructure Plan

part of the RestructureWiki road map.

an overview of the methodology that will be used including wiki functionality, and document formating.

Wiki Facilities to be used

Categories

Categories are MediaWiki's primary way to group pages. They have a built in method for referencing pages. All pages in the wiki should be a member of a category if ANY apply.

Templates

templates are the way that pages of similar structure are created. Frequently templates are used to create sections of a page.

?Transclusion?

not included in a standard install is labeled Transclusion. It allows the ability to include or quote sections of a page/template. The three current implemntations of it are:

• LabeledSectionTransclusion
• Labeled Section Transclusion
• Labeled section transclusion

it may be helpful to note that they all have the same author, and show only minor differences.

Outside Facilities to use

?Private web app?

The ability to use a database to keep certain variables that will be common to a group of data has advantages and drawbacks. This option needs to be strongly considered as a way to make the more comparative data easier to maintain.

Categories Proposed

• FileFormat - page name based on its extension *.xml for example would be xml
• Reader - software or hardware (naming convention needed)
• Hardware - hardware based reading devices, all hardware will also be "reader"
• Software - any program that is being tracked, all reader non-hardware will be part of software
• Company - This will have information on the companies referenced in other articles, company pages may reference other companies as their parent, child, or partner on a project
• Technology - things such as e-ink or rss that have a broad impact on many technological implementations
• HowTo - guides for a specific task
• welcome - any simple or no background articles to help people get use to the landscape
• Stub - incomplete (done by including the {{stub}} tag in a page
• speculative - contains information that is likely to go out of date, such as a page on the new amazon reader
• Core - used for the categories, templates and pages that are central to the organization of the wiki.