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Whitelist of Wikipedia linked terms #1317
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Maybe we could create a glossary with a standard definition where all lessons point to. This glossary could contain:
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@arojascastro that sounds like a lot of work. |
@mdlincoln would it be technically possible to scan lesson requests with travis to look for a list of terms to check if they are linked to Wikipedia? Or is that going to be a nightmare? |
At 2019-06-26 meeting, decided that the more general technical writing guidelines will advise linking technical terms to wikipedia, so a separate "whitelist" will be redundant. |
related to #1209 the building of an English language stylesheet. I have put together a list of all links to Wikipedia in lessons. About half of lessons contain Wikipedia links, to what I'd generally call "technical" or "mathematical" terms. In order to ensure that our authors more consistently link these terms to Wikipedia, I think it would be worth trying to articulate which terms should be linked, and possibly finding an automated way to scan incoming lessons for these terms during the editorial process (thereby reducing editor effort required).
The questions are:
Here is the full list (I tried to remove links to proper names):
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