Fairfaxpedia talk:Roadmap

Technical
The one extension I thought might be useful would be something like ImageMap, although I'd like to see if there's one that allows live drilldowns for things like org charts.(Maybe Semantic Treeview?)

Relationship With Wikipedia
I think that we should use Wikipedia as a reference, but not copy content from Wikipedia. If someone wants to read the Wikipedia article, they should read it on Wikipedia.

Alternatively, we could use interwiki links to link directly to Wikipedia articles, rather than write our own, or even transclude the articles if that's preferred.

As far as copying content to Wikipedia, I think that should be up to whoever is doing the writing and editing.

Re: Relationship With Wikipedia -- Joshdoe 06:22, 28 February 2012 (EST)

 * I don't think we should copy content wholesale from Wikipedia, but I think it would be appropriate to copy selective portions. For example, the history section on the article seems like it would be a good seed four our Burke article. The demographics section (created from Census data) I think is best left to Wikipedia, as it can't be linked to other FP articles. Likewise, I don't think transclusion would be appropriate since we will likely internally link many more subjects. I think FP should have a corresponding article for any local subject, while linking to WP where possible for subjects that aren't well known (e.g. what incorporated or incumbent means). We can certainly borrow Wikipedia titles and categories when it makes sense (not using such verbose names, and not worrying about disambiguity with an out-of-Fairfax subject.). If we are sure to add OnWikipedia to every article that has a corresponding one on WP, then (in the future) we can automatically check for changes in one and apply it to the other, see what articles are of sufficient quality to copy to WP, etc. I'll go ahead and add a Property to that template so we can see how many we have now.

History
I think you can never have too much history, but that is my personal bias. Of course, if we've got 15000 words on the history of Fairfax City, it only makes sense to break it out into a separate "History of Fairfax City" article or even something more granular like "History of Fairfax City during the Civil War".

Notability
My feeling is that the notability guidelines should be fairly broad and the threshold fairly low. I would say that anyone who's ever done anything of note in Fairfax County is fair game for an article, meaning any public official, anyone who's ever sought political office, or any member of a board, association, committee, or commission. My current favorite candidates for articles, when I feel like researching and writing them, will be people like Noman Cole, M. D. Hall, Bill Durrer, or Jim Swinson, although folks like Charlie Holober should probably stay on Fractured Fairfax.--Chuckhoffmann 05:17, 28 February 2012 (EST)