User talk:E-wiki

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Categories

Hi there! Good to have your edits adding categories! Just to save you a little work, with categories, I don't think there is any advantage to adding the pipe ("|") symbol at the end, unless you are making it not as a category but as a link within the body of the page (and in that case you have to prefix the whole link with a colon). WikiSysop 15:39, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Note on links and Category Religion

Hi,

I explained in the note, but in case you didn't see it, the reason we link to https://bahai-library.com instead of the reflib is because https://bahai-library.com (which I pretty much (minimally) maintain now that Jonah has taken a less active role) can link back to the wiki here too. We have contributed content to the official proofreading project, and aim in the future to develop a way to auto-package fresh copies from their site to ours. In any case, if you use wikilinks to refer to page numbers (see Bahai9:Using this Site (Technical)), we can easily change how the database maps links to one site to another (though admittedly that is not relevant in this case where we hard-code the link directly). Though I see there is indeed a formatting problem at the Will and Testament of the Bab provisional translation at BL, in general I'd also like to link to BL since it reduces the chance of dead links in case these other sites go offline (the one page you found at our site as a dead link is a very unusual case--maybe removed by author request). WikiSysop 09:09, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

As far as categories, what you have been adding look very helpful. I thought, however, that your original idea of having a "Religion" category could be preserved in the form of "Faith traditions" or the like (which avoids the ambiguity of the former term as far as whether it covers specific Faiths or religious topics). I think that would be a useful category to have, without, to borrow terms in programming, "polluting" the "global" categories (i.e., without adding too many categories to Fundamental). WikiSysop 09:09, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

One more thing I thought of...Rather than reinventing the wheel, we can also take advantage of the informal categorization on the main page. I particularly find the Fundamental categories of:

1. "By Subject/Topical" (subcategorized by "Material", "Human/Intellectual", and "Spiritual" based on SAQ Chpt. 3)
2. "By protagonist (person, place, thing/concept)"
3. "By time/sequence/cycle"
4. "By work" (e.g., information collected on or by the sequence of a particular book)

WikiSysop 15:37, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

License

One other issue you might wish to know about or speak to...

Esp. since you've started contributing, I think it is a critical time for me to reevaluate the license used on the site. I like the CC-Sharealike for working with Wikipedia and other blogs, but I was thinking of dual/triple-licensing as well, possibly with GNU FDL (to be more compatible with Wikipedia's earlier license I believe, though I'm not sure whether we could accept edits from this license category or not), and also to ask that contributors, while preserving their own right to copyright, hand over copyright to the site or to the Universal House of Justice, so that if the institutions wanted to make free use of the material without being compelled into Sharealike, they could do so (though that would either limit what we could accept or require that we mark any pages as having third-party content for which we could not obtain such consent). Thoughts? WikiSysop 09:16, 16 December 2009 (UTC)