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[Arjun Sarwal]

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From: "Chris Leonard" <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 12:57:31 -0400
Subject: Re: [OLPC library] Pilot pages and Schools on the Wiki
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On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
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>> Seth Woodworth wrote:
>> > Recently professor Verma from San Fransisco started documenting his
>> > plans for a pilot in Bhagmalpur India [1].  I'm working on some
>> > wiki-organization and I thought that this page needs a more
>> > descriptive home, but I want some feedback first.
>> >
>> >
>> I'd like to hear more about this...
>> > I found this page [2] referring to other India schools and they all
>> > seem to have a different naming structure.  I really liked where the
>> > page for Nashik [3] resides at /OLPC India/Nashik.  If no one has any
>> > complains, I would like to move deployments or potential deployments
>> > from India to a sub page of the OLPC India/.
>> >
>> > Is this acceptable?
>> >
>> >
>> Yes, its fine by me. It makes sense to put the pilots under OLPC India.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sameer
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> I am very much in favor of using sub-page organization for these pages
> OLPC_Country/School.  While it makes sense to adopt some style elements from
> Wikipedia, others (like the avoidance of sub-pages) need to be reconsidered
> in light of the different uses of the MediaWiki software (they are building
> an encyclopedia, we are creating a shared information resource and
> collaborative workspace, non-encyclopedic) Furthermore, the OLPC wiki has
> some sensible emphasis on coordination by geographic area for the purposes
> of leveraging grassroots.  One feature of sub-page usage that is very nice
> is the default navigation link to "parent" page.
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> Another approach that is complimentary to the grouping under OLPC_Country
> (where it makes sense) is the use of purpose-built navigation templates to
> tie thematically related pages together in a simplified navigation group.
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> These are some examples of that sort and I think they serve a useful
> purpose to improve quick navigation within their thematic areas.
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> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Template:OLPC_Oceania
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Template:Spanish_America
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Template:Pilot_school
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> I think combinations of the two approaches 1) sub-page grouping 2) cross
> sub-page linking with themed navigation templates produces a fairly
> discoverable collection of related information.
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> cjl
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Arjun Sarwal
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