Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Industrial design/Things you can do/to do
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Questions
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[edit]A scope question: The first tagging operation of February 13, 2010 revealed some lingering scope questions that we want to discuss with each member of the project:
- The {{WikiProject_Industrial_design}} tagging gave 530 articles.
- We had previously estimated the number of potential ID articles to be around 1850...
- So the difference is this (those articles that Mr. ZooFari did no do with automated tagging but are part of the Wikipedia Industrial design category hierarchy):
- Category:Automobile designers (455 articles);
- Category:Cycle designers (25 articles);
- Category:Motorcycle designers (25 articles);
- Category:Textile designers (33 articles);
- Category:Computer-aided design (510 articles);
- Category:Furniture (around 1250 articles).
- Note 1: Keep in mind there are overlaps, so numbers do not add up.
- Note 2: I had previously decided to exclude non-furniture categories from the ID project because: by looking at some of the Category:Consumer goods articles, I thought they were not 'a good fit' as a whole, although some of them could be included later on an individual basis. (but that can also be reconsidered by the team)
The question is... What do we do about that?
- We keep that situation 'as is'.
- We ask somebody else to possibly automate all the rest of it.
- We reselect some of those categories for automation (which ones?) and do the rest by hand on an article-by-article basis.
As always, each solution has its advantages and inconvenients, both technical and ideological in nature... So, team, what do you think?
- Since nobody seems too keen to answer at this point... I'll push my own ideas:
- I am for solution 3. I would request automation of the Computer-aided design category (but not its subcategories), yielding 97 articles; We would do the rest (mainly Furniture/Cycle) one by one, BUT discarding Automobile/Motorcycle designers altogether (not out of appreciation, but because they seem already well supported by their respective WikiProject). Any other bright suggestion? --AlainR345Techno-Wiki-Geek 08:11, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
- I already screened the Category:Textile designers, yielding 10-15 articles. --AlainR345Techno-Wiki-Geek 08:11, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
- I also did the screening of Category:Cycle designers and that yielded about 10 articles for us. --AlainR345Techno-Wiki-Geek 23:00, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
- I screened Category:Furniture yielding another 25 articles or so. --AlainR345Techno-Wiki-Geek 21:07, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
- Category:Computer-aided design (no subcategories) has now been tagged, yielding 97 more articles. --AlainR345Techno-Wiki-Geek 03:18, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
If there is no other intervention about this scope question in the next few days, I will put its conclusions into the scope of the project. --AlainR345Techno-Wiki-Geek 21:12, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
- I moved the result of this scope discussion to its permanent location on the main project page. --AlainR345Techno-Wiki-Geek 03:18, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
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[edit]What are the merits of using {{Template:Did_you_know}} to get visibility on the main Wikipedia page? (not urgent)
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[edit]Should there be a Design navbox? (not urgent)
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[edit]Should we ask for collaboration on the Design Portal (section Interior design) from the Architecture WikiProject?
- On the one hand, they already have their Architecture portal and therefore should take care of that whole category;
- On the other hand, that portal does NOT talk about Interior design (articles about Interior design are not even tagged with their project banner)
So...what do you think people?
- I think we should. Personally, I believe that interior design is more closely related to Architecture than Industrial Design, so I think Architecture should certainly have some input here. Ghost650 (talk) 14:44, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
- So I did ask for that collaboration here in March, with no noticeable reaction so far... --AlainR345Techno-Wiki-Geek 17:02, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
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