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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Sameer Verma <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sverma@sfsu.edu">sverma@sfsu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">Seth Woodworth wrote:<br>> Recently professor Verma from San Fransisco started documenting his<br>> plans for a pilot in Bhagmalpur India [1]. I'm working on some<br>> wiki-organization and I thought that this page needs a more<br>
> descriptive home, but I want some feedback first.<br>><br>><br></div>I'd like to hear more about this...<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> I found this page [2] referring to other India schools and they all<br>> seem to have a different naming structure. I really liked where the<br>> page for Nashik [3] resides at /OLPC India/Nashik. If no one has any<br>
> complains, I would like to move deployments or potential deployments<br>> from India to a sub page of the OLPC India/.<br>><br>> Is this acceptable?<br>><br>><br></div>Yes, its fine by me. It makes sense to put the pilots under OLPC India.<br>
<br>Thanks,<br>Sameer</blockquote>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>These are some examples of that sort and I think they serve a useful purpose to improve quick navigation within their thematic areas.</div>
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<div><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Template:OLPC_Oceania">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Template:OLPC_Oceania</a></div>
<div><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Template:Spanish_America">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Template:Spanish_America</a> </div>
<div><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Template:Pilot_school">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Template:Pilot_school</a></div>
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<div>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.</div>
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