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    • Glossary? Thesaurus?

    Posted by Denis posts: 16 Austria

    OK, a simpler question:

    How would you procede to build a glossary, Thesaurus, and such?

    • First part is simple: someone writes RTFM, and then fills the page for it. What then?


    I experimented with adding a structure, and then adding all the glossary terms to this structure. It's possible to do, but neither very simple, nor very nice.

    Better ideas?

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    Posted by Damian Parker posts: 2881 United Kingdom

    I just simply used a set of Wiki pages on http://damosoft.co.uk

    lettered ))GlossaryAtoGlossaryZ((

    I guess once it gets larger I might play with Glossary Structure

    with a tree something like:

    Glossary
    A
    Animal
    Anything
    B
    Bear
    Beer
    C
    Car
    Cat

    Each of the A, B, C pages would use the {toc} on it to list the child pages. same for the main Glossary page.

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    Posted by Denis posts: 16 Austria

    > Damian:
    > I just simply used a set of Wiki pages on http://damosoft.co.uk
    >
    > lettered ))GlossaryAtoGlossaryZ((

    I see. Not very useful though - glossary terms can't be linked to from other texts, and it is questionable if you could easily find them with a search either.

    > I guess once it gets larger I might play with Glossary Structure
    >
    > with a tree something like:
    >
    > Glossary
    > A
    > Animal
    > Anything

    This is what I'm experimenting with. Other thing I tries was a multi-page wiki page: looks better, but then I have to maintain the TOC by hand. sad

    The problem I see with this approach is that some administrator has to decide what goes into glossary. Worse, he/she has to FIND the glossary entries first, and then add them to the structure. You see, here is another area where simple workflow woul be useful:

    1) ))AnyUser(( writes a new glossary entry, and marks it as "this should be added to glossary"
    2) ))PrivilegedUser(( accepts the new entry.

    Is there at least some way for users to automatically mark the new glossary entry as such, so that the "glossary editor" doesn't have to haunt them all over?

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    Posted by Denis posts: 16 Austria

    > Damian:
    > I just simply used a set of Wiki pages on http://damosoft.co.uk
    >
    > lettered ))GlossaryAtoGlossaryZ((

    I see. Not very useful though - glossary terms can't be linked to from other texts, and it is questionable if you could easily find them with a search either.

    > I guess once it gets larger I might play with Glossary Structure
    >
    > with a tree something like:
    >
    > Glossary
    > A
    > Animal
    > Anything

    This is what I'm experimenting with. Other thing I tries was a multi-page wiki page: looks better, but then I have to maintain the TOC by hand. sad

    The problem I see with this approach is that some administrator has to decide what goes into glossary. Worse, he/she has to FIND the glossary entries first, and then add them to the structure. You see, here is another area where simple workflow woul be useful:

    1) ))AnyUser(( writes a new glossary entry, and marks it as "this should be added to glossary"
    2) ))PrivilegedUser(( accepts the new entry.

    Is there at least some way for users to automatically mark the new glossary entry as such, so that the "glossary editor" doesn't have to haunt them all over?

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    Posted by Bernhard posts: 104

    I'm also already running into this issue.

    I'm currently experiencing to replace a glossary with Hotwords. Basically nobody in an only wiki really needs a glossary besides it looks nice...

    However, if you are going to print your wiki, a glossary would be nice. In this case, your Hotwords WILL BE all the glossary entries. You could easily produce a dump of all your hotwords and (yes ;-( ) manually add the hotwords to a dedicated Glossary page.

    Might this help? However, I 100% agree, having the ability to outomatically flag a wiki page to be a glossary entry would be great. (or an article)

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    Posted by Bernhard posts: 104

    I'm also already running into this issue.

    I'm currently experiencing to replace a glossary with Hotwords. Basically nobody in an only wiki really needs a glossary besides it looks nice...

    However, if you are going to print your wiki, a glossary would be nice. In this case, your Hotwords WILL BE all the glossary entries. You could easily produce a dump of all your hotwords and (yes ;-( ) manually add the hotwords to a dedicated Glossary page.

    Might this help? However, I 100% agree, having the ability to outomatically flag a wiki page to be a glossary entry would be great. (or an article)

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