Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Core topics/Tree worksheet

This is a working page for possible trees, directories and such that might be used for Wikipedia 1.0, both during preparation and in the final product.

Walkerma, Gflores and Vir have inspired this page by their discussions and draft trees.

Maureen's idea

Here is one basic outline of how various levels of core topics could be worked out. Biographies and the like are deliberately excluded for the time being.

Geography

1. Map
2. Places
   1. Each continent
      1. Each country

Cultural topics (Culture)

Society or Everyday or Personal life

1. Communication
2. Clothing
3. Education
4. Food

Leisure

1. Amusement and leisure venues
2. Hobby
3. Recreation
   1. Play
   2. Game
      1. Sports

History

1. History of the world
   1. Various periods and events
2. War
3. Time

Humanities

Arts and crafts

1. Literature
2. Performing arts
   1. Dance
   2. Film
   3. Music
   4. Theater
3. Visual arts
   1. Architecture
   2. Drawing
   3. Painting
   4. Photography
   5. Sculpture

Mythology, philosophy and religion

1. Mythology
2. Philosophy
   1. Ethics
   2. Logic
3. Religion
   1. Buddhism
   2. Christianity
   3. Hinduism
   4. Islam

Social sciences

1. Anthropology
2. Business, Economics and Finance
3. Government or Political science
   1. Law
      1. Crime
4. Psychology
5. Sociology

Technical topics (Science)

Environment

1. Agriculture
2. Ecology
3. Natural disaster

Mathematics and related

1. Algebra
2. Arithmetic
3. Calculus
4. Geometry
5. Information theory
6. Probability theory
7. Set theory
8. Trigonometry

Natural science

1. Scientific method
2. Biology
   1. Botany or Plant
   2. Human
   3. Medicine
   4. Zoology or Animal
3. Physical science
   1. Astronomy
   2. Chemistry
   3. Geology
   4. Physics

Technology

1. Computer
2. Telecommunications
3. Broadcasting
4. Transportation
   1. Airplane
   2. Automobile
   3. Boat

CQ's twelve-step program

Let the tree follow The Wikipedia Community's path:

1. Start Portal:Core topics and WikiProject Core topics and the List of core topics
2. Align the above with Portal:Browse and Wikipedia:List of WikiProjects and List of reference tables respectively
3. Program some tools that can diff and sync Category:Core topics with all of the above
4. Build new templates to replace (or adapt) Template:Portal skeleton, Template:WikiProject and Template:Assess that Wikipedians (and the tools) can understand
5. Aquire a sense of which wikipedians are interested in which topics and who is succeeding and who needs help (missing steps will probably go here)
6. Include all of the above in the discussions of Wikipedia:policy and Wikipedia:guidelines
7. Assist new and existing WikiProjects, current creators and maintainers of portals and other Wikipedians in adapting the tools.
8. Watch for efforts that align with this program and reward good efforts.

Discussion

I'm not sure what you envision Portal:Core topics and WikiProject Core topics to be or to do. Maurreen 17:18, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure how to articulate it. I envision the WP:1 team going through what "typical" WikiProjects have to go through to get a "feel" for what they / (we) have to put up with. I can see a role for Team 1 coordinating all sorts of problematic areas of effort, while learning and teaching how to work things using the "WikiProject Way" as we've tried to demonstrate at WikiProject Community and now WikiProject Sociology, WikiProject U.S. states and others. • CQ 03:05, 27 July 2006 (UTC)