-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Then maybe you should tag each article with a "Version"-template, which specifies for which structure the article was written and adds an appriopriate category. I recently saw this being used at http://www.ckiiwiki.com/Template:Version
Am 19.11.2014 16:59, schrieb Daniel Barrett: > Greg Rundlett (freephile) suggests: >> The Replace Text extension works pretty well, and even warns >> about conversions that can't be undone [1] >> >http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Replace_Text Perhaps >> that's what you're referring to when you mention automatic search >> and replace. > > Thanks Greg. I've used ReplaceText and it's pretty handy. We also > use Pywikibot for similar things. However, these are one-to-one > syntactic changes. The example I gave -- of revamping the periodic > table of the elements, analogous to a company reorg -- requires > more intelligence. I'm not talking about Hydrogen being renamed to > "Bydrogen." I'm talking about a paradigm shift in chemistry in > which the old elements have been replaced by new *concepts*, not > just new names. Instead of "elements" we now have "Foobles" that > don't correspond one-to-one with the old elements. That's what > happens in a corporate reorganization: team names don't just > change. People are shuffled into an entirely new organizational > shape. A company that was formerly organized by geography (USA, > Europe, Asia) gets reorganized by function (Global Sales, Global > Technology, Global Human Resources). In one second, all your wiki > content about company structure becomes deeply wrong. > > In some ways, this is the wiki equivalent of database schema > evolution, in which one set of organized data must be transformed > into another. It's a very, very hard problem. I was wondering if > anybody has successfully handled it. > >> One thing I do is to create and use templates like >> {{CompanyName}}, {{PrimaryDomain}}, {{EngineeringTeam}} so that >> you can use them throughout the wiki and update the template... > > We did this too, years ago, creating a {{CompanyName }} template. > And then something amazing happened. Our company split into TWO > companies, a parent and a subsidiary. Now, human intelligence is > required to change each instance of {{CompanyName}} either to > {{ParentCompany}} or {{ChildCompany}}. No automation can do this, > short of A.I. > > DanB > > ________________________________ My email address has changed to > [email protected]. Please update your address book. > > Cimpress is the new name for Vistaprint NV, the world’s leader in > mass customization. Read more about Cimpress at www.cimpress.com. > ________________________________ > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing > list To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUbaYSAAoJEK8msiPibiwtBrQH/AgNKUbgiZkS89HiWHNOrSWY UOemcC+P6WEpiy3nury1IvvlA+u9CbR8l2epaLDrSzxLGlqtOPhOU+hqIJsYb0Ey Xtj5omdFyC3R+KF2AA2PQWVdia3lFq5UKQYhSRcLvpo2ouvnXK0y6ALU40iQiP51 NXoOFAxpTJZEsfLnnKFvX4M2e4y/8FVSijUr56r8Be7qfYGy9VDQV6SA7K+Eh++j 47HMFdvaUwPb9T0qJkNagQ63a+m+31MCWtZfVKm0gCXcBTUdRnL2pksH31MvcwlA CC3fvoy6ll3Y5zZ44kGkNuhfRKbRqzDphEOwkRBTpe1EveVSgOVeNN/ranKlSPs= =tHon -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
