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This morning I woke up and my head was buzzing with ideas for a new application for AW that will be called "Encyclopedias."
An Encyclopedia is similar to a Journal in a way,
but rather than being primarily organized by
post date,
it will be organized by entry
title. In otherwords,
the main interface to the collection of entries in
the Encyclopedia will be an
alphabet rather than a
calendar.
Each entry will be able to reference other entries
with a custom tag such as:
Even if the entry for Julius Caesar does not exist yet, clicking on the link that the encyc tag creates, will lead you to an edit form to create a Julius Caesar entry.
Unlike Journals, Encyclopedias will be editable by several people. For example, an encyclopedia in a group might be set to allow entry submission from all members above a certain group member level. If a group such as Imperium creates an Ecyclopedia, then the tag would appear as:
The official Encyclopedia for the site, to which any member may submit an entry will be called the
"Encyclopedia Antica." If an editor approves the submission then the entry will appear in the Encyclopedia and the entry will have a byline crediting the author. Additionally, the author will be paid a fee in site currency. If multiple acceptable entries are submitted for the same keyword, they will be ordered by the editor for that subject area or city.
An important feature of Encyclopedias will be the ability for people to make bibliographic references. Such a reference may look like this:
The above
biblio tag would then create a link to a real life book at AW which among other things would provide further links to its location at Amazon and B&N. Once on the page for that RL Book, one could see all the Encyclopedia references at AW to it.
