Typed link
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Typed links are essential to any semantic web including a sociosemantic web.
Simulate a typed link in mediawiki with two or more alternate page names:
- Create distinct names for each different reason to link to the same page, e.g. use root for questions or answers specifically about when to do so and when not to, and root policy for more general questions and problems and outstanding issues about it. All alternate names redirect to the most general name which has all content on one page. The only distinction between the purposes is which link was invoked.
- Make sure that each link represents its own POV or purpose and that only those uses that reflect that POV or purpose are using the link devoted to that purpose, i.e. copyedit statements like "what is the root policy about using root to..." to link to use root not root policy as it's about ordinary use guidelines, and statements like "if I use root to do this bad thing, who will catch me?" to link to root policy not use root, since it is about exceptions caught by policy.
- Consider setting up a mediawiki category like "action", "act", or "do" for things like use root that are in verb form and imply a specific subject doing the job. Or, a separate namespace like do: for this purpose.
- Check regularly links to the page in question for any need to have more redirects for distinct purposes.
For instance, when linking to this page, use [[semantic link]] if you intend some specific top-down semantics, use [[typed link]] if you are just differentiating two observed uses of a page or link. If you follow this discipline, then the links to this page will be sorted properly into the two types of linkage, making it easy to tell the difference between say a top-down implementation of a zooid policy, and bottom-up observation of a folksonomy.
It might further be useful to distinguish use of REL/REV in HTML, create redirects like [[REV link]], and make some mention of it on this page in case anyone wants to use that convention on HTML pages linking into this wiki, e.g., a policy like:
"Use of REV acknowledges the authority of the page that it links to, as a index or table of contents or other authoritative source, e.g. a list of all sysops may be deferred to on a user page with a REV link."
"Use of REL has no such effect as the page choosing to link to another is claiming a relationship that may or may not be acknowledged by the other, it's simply reference."
