Forum:Infoboxes

Anyone home? Anyways, I was hoping we can put together a standard for any new topic pages that are to be expanded. Possibly we can begin with what I am currently doing with the Applied Mathematics pages (slowly but surely ;o)) where I first include an italics line stating which subject the topic page applies too (pardon the pun), and then state whether Honours/Ordinary and any other important information. What say you? Speaking of which, we need to make sure all people refer to Honours/Ordinary or Higher/Ordinary so to lessen any possible confusion between pages. Maybe just a general standard/template page? I hope to discuss this. Zorba 00:07, 9 July 2007 (IST)

This is something I've been thinking about quite a bit. Have a look at Help:Creating a new page, which I just drew up now. It could be a good place to lay out a template like this. The other thing I was thinking about was creating a standard infobox. For anyone who isn't familiar, see [1]. It could be placed in the top right of each page and have a section for subject, paper, level etc. The only problem is, the might be a bit complex for the average user? They look very nice and as they're template based, they'd be identical throughout the site, but your use of two italicised lines is far simpler!! I'll draw up a mock infobox tonight or tomorrow afternoon, and put it on this page for anyone to comment on it. Admin 18:04, 9 July 2007 (IST)

• That box you talk about was one of the things I was considering - its very "wiki" if you know what I mean. That is definitely what we should be aiming to introduce, but for the moment (like you mentioned), maybe we should stick with the italicised lines, and then we can think about introducing a sweet infobox maybe later when the site is a little further down the line in terms of content.Zorba 18:49, 9 July 2007 (IST)

Exactly. I'm a stickler for layout and style myself, and would love a uniformity like that, but I think I we should concentrate mostly on content for now, as this will attract more people to use and contribute to the site, at which point people like myself and yourself can go about "wikifying" the site. Admin 20:10, 9 July 2007 (IST)

Ok, I've drawn up three or four basic infoboxes, you can check them out around the site e.g. English poets and poems, I put one or two in economics definitions, e.g. substitute goods and i'm going to see what i can do in terms of taxonomy for Biology. As I make each one I've put them into Category:Infoboxes so you can see the full list there. I've also managed to include a neat feature or two in them. For Example, in the poet infobox, i've included the tag for [[Category:English Poets]], so that every time I (or anyone for that matter) uses this infobox, the page is automatically added to the list! I have a slightly more complicated one too in the definition ifobox, whereby it uses the "subject" field to populate the category tag also, so when I put the definition infobox on related goods and marked the subject as "economics", not only does the sentence appear that "this is an economics definition" but also the page get's tagged as [[Category:Economics definitions]] --Admin 16:58, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Examination Paper Copyright

Are the examination papers copyrighted? As in we can post the questions verbatim from them up here with no problems? Cheers. Zorba 17:47, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

They are copyrighted by the department of education and science who allow anyone to re-use them as long as they aren't changed around and are represented accurately etc. This includes exam papers and course syllabi afaik. To quote their website "You may re-use the information on this website free of charge in any format.Re-use includes copying, issuing copies to the public, publishing, broadcasting and translating into other languages. It also covers non-commercial research and study." Linky. I might, however, drop the State Examinations Commission a small email all the same just to be sure! --Admin 17:58, 9 December 2007 (UTC)