User:Whiteknight/Wikibooks Organization

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This is not a book outline, this is instead a central planning location to improve and standardize the Wikibooks organization mechanisms.

Existing Pages

These are the currently-existing pages that fall under the scope of this reorganization project.

• Wikibooks:Card Catalog Office
• Wikibooks:All Books
• Wikibooks:All bookshelves
• Wikibooks:Departments
• Wikibooks:Dewey Decimal Classification
• Wikibooks:LOC Classification
• Wikibooks:Alphabetical classification
• Wikibooks:Orphan Modules
• Wikibooks:Classification Guidelines
• Wikibooks:CCO Librarians
• Wikibooks:CCO Resources
• Template:Newpagelinksmain
• Wikibooks:Categories
• Wikibooks:New Wikibook Stack
• Template:Catalog
• Template:Infobox
• Template:opentask
• Wikibooks:Top Active
• Template:Book

The Plan

1. Create non-existent pages in Wikibooks:Dewey Decimal Classification, Wikibooks:LOC Classification.
2. Apply {{Categorybrowsebar}} to all necessary pages, bookshelves, etc. Maybe "jazz" it up a little.
3. Break Wikibooks:Alphabetical classification into sub-pages by letter.
4. Re-do the following templates to actually include books into a category: ...
5. Do similar for templates for the LOC system.
6. Move all content from Wikibooks:Dewey Decimal Classification to the appropriate sub-pages.
7. Create Categories for all the Dewey top-level categories, and all the LOC top-level categories.
8. Where possible, associate each bookshelf with the appropriate Dewey and LOC categories.
9. Create a single template, similar to the Infobox (but smaller) that will identify the Dewey, LOC, and alphabetical classifications of a book.
10. Fix the Wikibooks:Community Portal, because it is not good.

Templates

• Template:LOC
• Template:DDC
• Template:Alphabetical
• Template:Subjects

Wikibooks:Card Catalog Office

This page is outdated. It needs to be completely redone, but before we break any ground we need to have a clear plan of what this page should be.

Wikibooks:CCO Librarians

This page is basically useless and should probably be deleted.

Wikibooks:CCO Resources

This page has been revamped, and is now useful as-is. We can expand it more as needed.

Wikibooks:All Books

This page is basically a duplicate of the Wikibooks:All bookshelves page (discussed below). It should be deleted, and all links should be updated to point to the proper locations.

Wikibooks:All bookshelves

Each bookshelf needs an associated category. To do this easily, Each bookshelf will get an associated template that will automatically add books to that category. Every book on a bookshelf will get tagged with the appropriate template. This table below will also provide default values for the DDC and LOC systems for each bookshelf.

Bookshelf	Template	Category	DDC Categories	LOC Categories
Art bookshelf	{{Art}}	Category:Art	700
Games bookshelf	{{Games}}	Category:Games	700
History bookshelf	{{History}}	Category:History	900
Humanities bookshelf	{{Humanities}}	Category:Humanities	100
Language and literature bookshelf	{{Language and literature}}	Category:Language and literature	400, 800
Computer software bookshelf	{{Computer software}}	Category:Computer software	000
Computer science bookshelf	{{Computer science}}	Category:Computer science	000
Information technology bookshelf	{{Information technology}}	Category:Information technology	000
Programming languages bookshelf	{{Programming languages}}	Category:Programming languages	000
Meta-languages bookshelf	{{Meta-languages}}	Category:Meta-languages	000
Computer and video games bookshelf
How-tos bookshelf	{{How-tos}}	Category:How-tos	600
Study guides bookshelf	{{Study guides}}	Category:Study guides	300
Miscellaneous bookshelf	{{Miscellaneous}}	Category:Miscellaneous	000
Technology bookshelf	{{Technology}}	Category:Technology	600	T
Biology bookshelf	{{Biology}}	Category:Biology	500
Engineering bookshelf	{{Engineering}}	Category:Engineering	500, 600	Q, T
Health science bookshelf	{{Health science}}	Category:Health science	500, 600
Mathematics bookshelf	{{Mathematics}}	Category:Mathematics	500
Physics bookshelf	{{Physics}}	Category:Physics	500
Science bookshelf	{{Science}}	Category:Science	500
Business and economics bookshelf	{{Business and economics}}	Category:Business and economics	300, 600
Education bookshelf	{{Education}}	Category:Education	300
Languages bookshelf	{{Languages}}	Category:Languages	400
Law bookshelf	{{Law}}	Category:Law	300
Social science bookshelf	{{Social science}}	Category:Social science	100, 300

Wikibooks:Dewey Decimal Classification

Code snippet to apply a dewey-decimal classification to a page, where $page contains the title of the book, $_ contains the page text, and $cat contains the appropriate category:

if(! m/\{\{DDC/)
{
  $_ = $_ . "{{DDC|" . $cat . "}}\n";
}

Wikibooks:LOC Classification

code snippet to apply an LOC category, where &page contains the title of the book, $_ contains the page text, and $cat contains the LOC category.

if(! m/\{\{LOC/)
{
   $_ = $_ . "{{LOC|" + $cat + "}}";
}

Wikibooks:Alphabetical classification

Code snippet to apply an alphabetical categorization to a book (where $page contains the book's title, and $_ contains the text of the page):

 if(! m/\{\{alphabetical/)
 {
   $_ = $_ . "{{alphabetical|" . substr($page, 0, 1) . "}}\n";
 }