[Bug-gnupedia] Article layour

[Imran Ghory]

My ideas on what a basic article would contain,


<Title>

This would contain a short title of the article, including basic classification 
data.

<Summary>

A couple of lines in summary of the full article, could be displayed by engines 
searching the encyclopedia. This section should be non-compulsory.

<Article type> 

The categorization of the article type for instance,

Technical (is a technically involved article)
Biography (is a biographical article)
Children (is aimed at children)
Long (Long article)
Short (Short article)
etc.

A list of common types could be drawn up to be used, authors of articles 
should be free to come up wit their own categorizations, is a certain type of 
categorization becomes popular it could be added to the list of common types.

<author-ids>

list of the IDs of authors, should give the list in the same order as authors 
have 
signed the article.

<authors> 

A list of the authors of the article in human readable form.

<revision date>

A last update date so readers can know when an article may be out of date.

(we should standardize the date format dd/mm/yyyy or mm/dd/yyyy)

<article ID>

A fingerprint of the article + revision date. The fingerprint should be taken 
from 
the first version of the article and kept for all revisions.

If a revision breaks away significantly from a previous article it should be 
given a 
new fingerprint and version number.

<previous article ID>

If an article based upon another is given a new article-ID it should also 
include a 
link to the article it was based upon.

<actual article>

The actual content goes here.

<Links to related encyclopedia articles>

Links to related articles by article-ID.

<bibliography>

Related Books/websites.

We should allows tags like <author> ,<title>, <publisher> and <year> in here.

<author signatures>

Digitally signed (probably by gpg)

An example article in this system:

Title: Terry Brooks (fantasy author)
Type: Biography, Short
Authors: Imran Ghory
Revision-Date: 20/1/2001 (dd/mm/yyyy)
Article-ID: <MD5 generated finger print>+v1
Article:

1944-

US author, who rose to fame when his first book, The Sword of Shannara 
became the first ever work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback 
bestseller list. He started publishing in 1977 and has been continuing since. 
Apart from his Shannara saga which is still on going he has also written in the 
field of dark fantasy and childrens fantasy.

Born in Sterling, Illinois(a place which he later used as the basis of a book, 
Running with the Demon) in 1944. Brooks received an undergraduate degree in 
English Literature from Hamilton College in New York State, and a law degree 
from Washington & Lee University in Virginia.

Apart from his own fantasy work, he has also adapted movies such as Star 
Wars: The Phantom Menace and Hook into books.

Links:
<a-ID: 3453634566-v1>Star Wars</a-iD>, <a-ID: 45758437-v1>Hook</a-iD>.

Bibliography:

<author>Brooks, Terry</author>. <title>The Sword of Shanara</title>, 
<publisher>Del Ray</publisher> <year>1977</year>

Author-signatures: <my digital signing of this article>


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Imran Ghory