CZ Talk:Linguistics Workgroup/Archive 1

Linguistics Live category

I think it could be simpler, at least initially, to start a separate category of 'live' linguistics articles. I'm not sure it's completely necessary, but as an experiment I'm going to categorise anything 'live' accordingly (see Category:Linguistics Live) and link the workgroup home page to it, rather than having a manual list. John Stephenson 03:16, 23 January 2007 (CST)

I got rid of this category after a few months' service as we now have categories like 'External Articles' and 'Stubs' which do just about the same job. John Stephenson 00:00, 4 May 2007 (CDT)

Article lists

A back-up of these is here. For the record I think it's a mistake to delete all the non-live articles as for me it's easier to rewrite something rather than start with a blank page; but time will tell. John Stephenson 00:04, 19 January 2007 (CST)

Separate category for languages we know?

What do you guys think, should we set up different categories to organize which users know certain languages? For example, I am learning ancient Koine Greek but wouldn't yet be considered an "expert" on the subject, so maybe something along these lines [[Category:Linguistics Authors, Koine Greek|Major, Tom]] --Tom Major 08:40, 5 September 2007 (CDT)

I do agree it'd be useful to know what languages we all have expertise in, but CZ aims to minimise categories (we delete all the Wikipedia ones when we import articles). For now, this can be kept on the user pages, unless we can get a way of referring to this without creating lots of categories. John Stephenson 06:52, 6 September 2007 (CDT)

So was that a yes or a no? :-) The only way to refer to this kind of data without categories would be if the Citizendium developers installed the Semantic MediaWiki etension. --Tom Major 15:55, 6 September 2007 (CDT)

Further to this, see CZ:International. John Stephenson 22:47, 20 September 2007 (CDT)

Approach

Hello all, I am an editor in Anthropology and we in the workgroup are attempting to build this area and approach the standards that are being reached by your workgroup. As many areas of anthropology overlap with linguistics (we in fact have linguistics listed over there also), I feel that members of your group could assist us enormously in building the Anthropology heading as well as creating fertile cross links between our allied disciplines. I would appreciate if your editors and authors would take a few moments to visit our workgroup page where we are compiling a list of priority topics and sub-headings. I would imagine that many of you might find you already have ideas, stubs or even developed articles which you could insert into our wish list and make this aspect of CZ grow more rapidly and with a sounder biological base. Please feel free to write/edit away! Many thanks in advance! CZ:Anthropology Workgroup

Lee R. Berger 00:38, 13 September 2007 (CDT)