2019 talk:Wikimedia 2030/One World, One Wiki!

Notes after this talk

Capturing nuance

Capturing cultural differences across WPs: without squashing those differences.

Distinguish:

• translations of a given text,
• variance in brevity + language-level
• intentional variance of fact or implied source-reputation reflecting cultural / research / trust differences

For cultural differences, distinguish

• Things you can say in one jurisdiction but not another for libel or censorship reasons
• Statements about the world that are mandated in different regimes (like around language or map definitions, explicit orthography shifts, explicit historical clashes)

Single namespace, for simplicity

Shared namespace where all others can be merged (w/ qualifiers where necessary)

Simple way to start writing about something without deciding

• Start writing about a word + its definitions + history + what makes it notable. Perhaps later break this out into [dictionary templates] and [encyclopedic templates] and [lesson teaching you to conjugate and use it]
• Start writing about a known cluster of {work + versions of it, expressions, manifestations, notable items} asociated w/ an author + story + universe. Have an entire section on related nouns/titles/cluster-members, with pencilled-in redirects.

Nuanced redirection: Hard-redirects [major variants/typos], soft-redirects [variants which may have multiple meanings, or parts of a whole], shadow-redirects [casual terms in a section of aliases + related concepts, as long as there are no better targets for a redirect -- these alises may be worth their own section in articles]

Compare how shared namespaces work today

• Templates: shared w/in a project; not across. (global templates?)
• File-names: cross-project, cascade of checks, stopping after first hit (local, global list, under same title)
• Wikidata: cross-project, by shared + localized title? no, by shared ID, generating a localized string.

  WD-ID; Databox. Copy/paste minimal code to draw from a shard knowledge-space.