CZ Talk:Workgroups
Alphabetical
- Agriculture
- Anthropology
- Archaeology
- Architecture
- Astronomy
- Biology
- Business
- Classics
- Chemistry
- Computers
- Earth Sciences
- Economics
- Education
- Energy
- Engineering
- Games and Hobbies
- Geography
- Health Sciences
- History
- Journalism
- Law
- Library and Information Science
- Linguistics
- Literature
- Mathematics
- Media
- Military
- Music
- Philosophy
- Physics
- Politics
- Psychology
- Religion
- Sociology
- Sports
- Technology
- Theater
- Visual Arts
On Proposed Grouping - Natural Science
Should Health Science(s) not be a part of "Biology"? Supten 23:14, 13 November 2006 (CST)
- Biology would encompass stuff like Botany and Zoology, while Health Sciences focuses on human physiology and medicine. The idea being that doctors should gravitate towards health sciences, and biologists towards Biology. You are correct that there is a lot of overlap, though.
Discipline Workgroups
should point to the "Category' with that title rather than the specific page with that title! Supten 23:18, 13 November 2006 (CST)
- The goal is to at some point revamp categories, or do away with them on the user page. Ideally before we go live. Therefore, it's better to have the main pages for each workgroup be well done. --ZachPruckowski 07:56, 14 November 2006 (CST)
- Actually, we want several columns in a table: the article page (e.g., Philosophy); the workgroup homepage (e.g., CZ:Philosophy Workgroup; the article category page (e.g., Category:Philosophy Workgroup); the editor category page (e.g., CZ:Philosophy Editors; maybe an author category page (e.g., CZ:Philosophy authors).
- By the way, I much prefer "Category:Philosophy Workgroup" to "Category:Philosophy," because what we are categorizing are not articles, but which workgroup has responsibility for which articles. This is an important difference! We don't want all and only articles that happened to be categorized "Philosophy" articles by Wikipedia necessarily to be managed by our own Philosophy workgroup. For this we make our own decisions. --Larry Sanger 14:30, 19 November 2006 (CST)
Business
Should business be part of Applied Arts and Sciences ? It should be in the same category than Economics.. Anh
Confusion
I have no idea why the editors list and authors lists aren't being displayed. I'm trying to figure it out... Note, these should be categories, not in the CZ Pilot workspace. --Larry Sanger 21:46, 19 November 2006 (CST)
- You've inadvertently added this page to each of those categories. There's a way to make it link to that page without having it add you to that category, I just don't know how yet either --ZachPruckowski 22:00, 19 November 2006 (CST)
- You do it like this, with a leading colon: Category:Philosophy Authors. I just don't know it's not working! The bizarre thing is that it's working for the "Article list" categories, but not the next two columns...but they are coded exactly the same way in the template! --Larry Sanger 22:04, 19 November 2006 (CST)
- OK, now it seems to be working (at least for me). maybe you had to change the page to get it to reload the template? Anyhow, I'm going to finish my news reporting and go to bed, because I have to be up at 6 am to report it. I'll do more template adding tommorrow if I get a chance. For anyone curious, the templates are {{Editor_list|Field=XXX}} and {{Author_list|Field=XXX}} where XXX is the name of the field. -- ZachPruckowski, sometime on Nov. 19th, 2006.
Computer Science?
Into which workgroup would the topic Computer Science fit in? Mathematics workgroup, Computers workgroup, somewhere else? My guess would be that Mathematics would be most appropriate out of the two, and there are already some related topics there such as Automata theory and Cryptography. I would have suggested an independent Computer Science Workgroup, but I am not sure it is such a good idea to split things up further than needed - the WP WikiProject on Computer Science is rather inactive right now. What do others think?--Konstantin Tchernov 21:48, 21 November 2006 (CST)
- I'd stick it in the Computers workgroup. I think that was a union of an original proposal's Internet and Computer Science groups. However, you're right in that Discrete Math and Cryptography are going to be joint articles between Math and Computers (at least as far as my basic CS education goes). --ZachPruckowski 00:06, 22 November 2006 (CST)
Architecture?
I am not sure about the categories. Per example: Colosseum, Great Pyramid of Giza, Parthenon, etc. are listed as "Architecture", but would not those be "Archaeology" or "History"?--Versuri 06:15, 22 November 2006 (CST)
- I tagged them as "Architecture Workgroup (Top)" as it was in CZ:High priority articles for pilot, but I think it is better to check it. --Versuri 16:40, 22 November 2006 (CST)
- Architecture will likely cover a lot of articles also belonging to other workgroups, since a lot of major architectural examples that people will be familiar with will have history behind them, or political/cultural significance. I think that the architecture workgroup can add to the architecture sections of some of those pages, but it'll also do the articles on "flying buttress" and "Gothic architecture". Also I'd like it to explain the point of those creepy gargyole things, because who ever decorates their building like that must be nuts :-) --ZachPruckowski 00:01, 23 November 2006 (CST)
Regions?
Should we have workgroup for discussing topics related to regions/countries - e.g., India / USA / UK , etc.? Supten 06:34, 30 November 2006 (CST)
- Please, see CZ:Geography Workgroup and Category:Geography Workgroup (Top).--Versuri 06:43, 30 November 2006 (CST)
- Is there any category as in WP e.g., Indian Wikipedians? In WP I have edited a substatntial number of articles related to India / Bengal but the CZ:Geography Workgroup does not point out towards any such category. Supten 03:39, 5 December 2006 (CST)
- There is not a sufficient number of geography authors. The workgroup have not started yet. --Versuri 05:43, 5 December 2006 (CST)