Article

There are two types of articles in Wikidocumentaries.

• Collaborative created topic's main articles are discussed on this page.
• Articles created as memoirs by one person are discussed on the testimonials page.

Displaying an article in the topic page

• As a user I can read a main article about the current topic
  • If the topic exists in Wikidata, the article to be displayed or added should be in Wikipedia.
  • If the topic exists in Wikidocumentaries only, the article is stored in Wikidocumentaries.

Wikipedia articles

• Editing a Wikipedia article happens in Wikipedia.

Local articles

Local articles for topics that only exist in Wikidocumentaries are created in Wikidocumentaries.

• All language versions of a Wikidocumentaries article are stored as separate wiki pages in Wikidocumentaries.
• Articles will have entries in the Wikibase to be able to connect them to different topics and language versions or they can be added using the modified sitelinks feature.
• Navigating the articles in different languages in the Wikidocumentaries MediaWiki needs a solution to connect them together.
• Visual editor needs to be installed and modified to support bespoke linking. This is a more general federation need.
• The user should be able to use a modified Visual Editor to edit (local) articles.

Linking

• The links of a Wikipedia article are resolved to Wikidata ID's when a link is followed. The router redirects the link to a QID-based address. See linking.
• The links in a Wikidocumentaries article will have QIDs and Wikidocs-QIDs natively.
• It will be important to allow linking between Wikidocumentaries and Wikidata. When there is no link in a Wikipedia article the user should be able to select text and query for an page (from Wikidata and/or Wikidocumentaries).
  • The link would be stored locally as an annotation or used only at that one time. How is the annotation stored? As a data table? including the annotated text, the target item, the language and the contributor of the link. Must check compatibility with W3C Web Annotation recommendations.

Parts

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Toolbar

Edit-button / Plus-button

• View/edit in Wikipedia
• The icon can also be the Wikipedia logo
• Plus: Create missing article (in Wikipedia / in Wikidocumentaries) if no article can be displayed.

Languages-button

• List of language links to user's other languages
• Option to display more languages
• When displaying another language article, show link to translate from that language to the user's language

Actions-button

• Crowdsourcing actions about the article

Expand (below the article)

• Stretch the area to display the full article. May also display images.
• Consider using an effect like this when opened. https://fat.github.io/zoom.js/. Exists for Vue for example https://popmotion.io/pose/learn/vue-tutorial-medium-style-image-zoom/, https://codesandbox.io/s/github/francoischalifour/medium-zoom/tree/master/examples/vue?view=preview

Content

• Wikipedia or Wikidocumentaries article of the topic. Initially in the user's language, can be changed to another language while the rest of the interface stays in the user's language.
• Message if no article is available. Could also be an automatic language fallback for the user's preferred languages.
• When creating a new article, explore the possibility of adding a placeholder article created from facts

Article options

Item in Wikidata – article exists in Wikipedia in the users's language

• Display article Wikipedia article.
• Buttons
  • Expand article to read it all. Displays the whole article in the page. Can apply a more enjoyable layout with images, tables, whitespace etc.
  • Wikipedia/External/Edit-button Read/edit article in Wikipedia.
  • Languages: Option to read in other available languages.
  • Actions:
    • Tasks of picking the links in the text and adding to Wikidata
• Links: Select text which does not have links. Display search and resulting result links. Red links can be treated similarly. The annotations can be saved for further use.

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Item in Wikidata – article does not exist in Wikipedia in the user's language

• Display article: Display placeholder text which prompts to read the article in another language or to create or translate the article in Wikipedia, or automatically created article.
• Buttons:
  • External/Edit-button: Edit article in Wikipedia.
  • Languages: Access to articles in other languages.
  • Plus: Offer a link to create or translate a page in Wikipedia.

Item in Wikidocumentaries – article exists in Wikidocumentaries in the user's language

• Display article: Display the locally saved article. Option to read in another language (Languages-button).
• Title: Article
• Buttons:
  • Edit: Use a modified version of Visual Editor to edit the article and links (Edit-button).
  • Languages

Item in Wikidocumentaries – article does not exist in the user's language

• Display article
  • Display text and links to read in another language or create the article. OR
    • Alert: There is no article about [topic] in [your language]. You can choose to read the article in another language from the languages menu above or create the article in your language by clicking on the plus icon.
  • Display an article automatically in a fallback language. Display alert message with a text and links. OR
    • Alert: There is no article about [topic] in [your language]. You can read another available language by choosing from the menu above and you can choose to [translate] this article to your language.
    • Extra menu item: Translate this article.
  • Create a placeholder article from recorded facts. Display alert message with a text and links.
    • Alert: There is no article about [topic] in [your language]. This article has been automatically created from the recorded facts. You can read the article in another language or [save this draft and start editing the article]. Style: Alert.
• Title: Article
• Buttons
  • Plus: Create a new article in Wikidocumentaries Visual editor, insert draft text, set in edit mode.
    • Tooltip: Create a new article.
  • Languages Display first (5) languages in which the article exists from the list ordered by the user's language fallback chain. Display a link to show all available languages.
    • Tooltip: Other languages.
    • Action: Display the article in another language.

Article data

What is the data to be saved about an article in Wikidocumentaries database.

• Topic articles
  • Topic id
  • Language id
  • Article location (If the articles are arranged in a hierarchical tree structure, then an additional title will be needed. Should be more flexible that way.
  • Translatable title
• Testimonial articles
  • Depicted items --> Could also investigate existing Wikidata properties
  • Depicted date
  • Depicted location
  • Author (these are not collaboratively editable). The link to a user is not a Wikibase entry for privacy reasons unless made public --> How to handle. Start with an easy solution.

Tooling, technology

• The article should be translatable (local file to local file), preferably with Content Translate.
• Visual editor should be extended with a gadget that can make links based on Wikidata entries rather than local wiki links.
• Wikibase should be able to maintain an index of translations of an article. Can sitelinks be recycled?

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