Yaron K.

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Individual Engagement Grant proposals due 15 February 2013

Hello Yaron K.! Thank you for drafting an Individual Engagement Grant proposal.

The deadline to submit a completed proposal to be considered for funding in this round is 15 February 2013.

When you have completed all 3 parts of your proposal, please submit it for review by updating the wikimarkup in your page from status=DRAFT to status=PROPOSED. If you have questions or need more help submitting your proposal, you can ask for it at IdeaLab Help. Thanks!

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License

Hi there, please be so kind to add license info to this file uploaded by you. --MF-W 01:45, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

How do I do that? The standard upload functionality didn't let me choose a license. Yaron K. (talk) 02:02, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Simply choose one from Category:License templates. You can also add {{information}}, like on Commons. --MF-W 02:23, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Okay, done. Thanks for the info. Yaron K. (talk) 00:08, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Data browser, SemanticTrees, and Outlines

Hi. I saw your Grants:IEG/MediaWiki data browser proposal, and was pleased beyond words. I'd like to offer some tangential thoughts, and ask a few questions.

I've long wished to help build visual interfaces, for keywords (core vocabulary) in all topic areas.

Something that looks like a cross between File:Main_Page_Usability.png and en:File:Dhamma_Chart_in_English.gif

A a cross between a SemanticNetwork/MindMap and a LayerChart (http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html)

Something that zooms like Googlemaps, to get to the deeper keywords (to prevent overwhelming visual chaos).

E.g. So that, if I type in "isobathytherms", the data browser finds that keyword in the article en:Contour line, and highlights a path to that node, from the root node, via Natural sciences->Earth sciences->Cartography.

E.g.2. If I overhear someone talking about "Kerning", my GoogleGlasses can highlight that word at the end of a path from Art->Design->Typography->Typeface Anatomy.

As sources of data, I've been thinking about 3 sets:

• Categories
• Navigation templates (eg. en:Template:Typography terms)
• Outlines and Glossaries (eg. en:Outline of forestry)

I'm particularly interested in whether the Outlines might be able to be used (somewhat easily/automatedly) as a source of data, as they inherently have a semantic structure, with headings and indents denoting relationships. eg en:Portal:Contents/Outlines

Does any of that resonate well, for your own project?

I look forward to seeing the ripples that flow out from your work. Best wishes, Quiddity (talk) 03:38, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi - thanks for your interest, and your encouragement. This project isn't about outlines, though - it's about structured, non-hierarchical data. So the mind-mapping stuff wouldn't be relevant, I don't think. But we can discuss once the first version of the software is released - everything will make more sense at that point, hopefully. Yaron K. (talk) 03:58, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

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