Guideline
How is Co-Designs set up and how are different entries integrated? Thinking of the topic of this wiki, one can divide the world into either existing or becoming things. While wikipedia focuses on existing stuff, Co-Designs focuses on becoming stuff. Let's give it a nice name, so-called existants and becomants. A becomant might be an existant in the future, but it might also vanish. With that in mind we have the folowing entry-types:
Entry-types
The entry-type should be written above the article in italics.
- models or designs; the designs that make out the bulk of the entries and are in a state of becoming.
- existing objects called existants; from concrete objects like a 'house' to knowledge with a certain notability. Obviously this should be used sparingly and when possible refer to the wikepedia-page. This also implies a definition: a conventional naming of the object. (When one uses a 'personal' definition please embed it in the design itself).
- theories; a coherent set of mechanisms that are assumed to be true, and that are supportive of the design. Theories are of mixed type, some are notable and proven and some are embryonic.
- goal-networks; allthough a small design may have it's own effects described, larger designs may have a separate goal-network. Mixed type of becoming and existing.
- guidelines; rules or, if you of anarchistic nature, hints how to add or edit material on this wiki. So this is a guideline here.
Designs are only a subject for wikipedia when they are realized and notable, and with that becoming existants themselves.
Hierarchical setup
The site is set up in an abstraction / specification-approach. This means that all entries are related to their entrie-abstraction-page. This sounds complicated but let us see this example:
The page for the design of a new hovercraft has a link to the page of it’s abstraction, a vehicle-page. The vehicle-page is problably just a container-page (there may be no model for a vehicle in general) but some common properties of vehicles can be discussed. In this sense it looks like Wikipedia.
One might link to the vehicle-page of Wikipedia, because that site is describing existing vehicles. It would be nice though, if links to outside page are opened in a new window instead of replacing the current window. Using Wikipedia one does avoid doing double work, but that is only sensible if those pages are of sufficient quality. Another problem is that the outside pages do not refer back to the specific model.
So it is important that your entry, or model in most cases, is integrated in Co-Designs. See Integration of models in Co-Designs.
