Too much detail?[edit source]
Thanks for this page, I really like Schumacher, and there are some very interesting links here examining in more detail things I didn't know so much about him. He stands for me with Francis of Assisi, Gandhi, MLK and Chesterbolloc as advocates of a form of ethical economics that feels naturally better than the one we've inherited. I just can't quite understand how to get from here to there.
That said, I'm not sure of the value of the majority of this page on Appropedia. Unless you were browsing one of the pages in the category (and/or feeling particularly low and perplexed at the time), would you even click on the title?
I like the idea of having pages about important figures in AT here, I just don't know if we really need to import this much detail from wikipedia Joeturner 03:02, 16 April 2013 (PDT)
- If Appropedia had a clear operational vision of scope and depth for its articles, that question would be much easier to answer. I added the article here as I was trying to understand the relevance of Schumacher and his work to Appropedia. My basic approach to porting from Wikipedia is to start with a target page, whether a template or article, and follow it until it seems to work. This article seemed to be relevenat to Schumacher, who is relevant to Appropedia. The number of red links here show this article goes well beyond the current scope of this site. I would not have know that without porting it here. Adding the "W" links lets readers follow a concept there, if they choose. If you want to narrow the scope of this article, I won't object. --RichardF 05:50, 16 April 2013 (PDT)
- Fair enough, I'm trying to think through the implications of that kind of vision for Appropedia and how it might impact on 'non-core' articles. I like the wikipedia links, did you have to add those manually after porting? Joeturner 06:22, 16 April 2013 (PDT)
- A couple of years ago, Chris taught me how to use MyRegexTester to create Interwiki links. I would add them semi-automatically to some 'non-core' articles and then remove the red links or working 'W' links by hand. He had similar concerns to yours, so I stopped doing it.
- p.s. Don't bother giving me any pop quizzes on what all that stuff means! ;-) --RichardF 07:12, 16 April 2013 (PDT)